{"id":4539,"date":"2016-03-18T13:39:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T18:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4539"},"modified":"2016-03-18T13:39:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T18:39:01","slug":"approximate-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/18\/approximate-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Approximate Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/approximate.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4540\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4540 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/approximate-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"approximate\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/approximate-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/approximate-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/approximate.jpg 516w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it is necessary to enter in an approximate year of an event for an ancestor.<\/p>\n<p>Always include in your notes your reason for that approximate year. If there is a source which you used to make the approximation, that should be indicated. Frequently a source will suggest an approximate year for some other event.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t just enter in an approximate year or a guess without indicating how you got it.<\/p>\n<p>And if you don&#8217;t have any reason at all for the approximate year of the event, reconsider entering it in your database in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p><em>Genealogy Tip of the Day<\/em> is proudly sponsored by\u00a0<em>GenealogyBank<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/1603GT\">Check out their March offer for our readers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it is necessary to enter in an approximate year of an event for an ancestor. Always include in your notes your reason for that approximate year. If there is a source which you used to make the approximation, that should be indicated. Frequently a source will suggest an approximate year for some other event. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}