{"id":5240,"date":"2016-08-14T08:25:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T13:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5240"},"modified":"2016-08-14T08:00:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T13:00:37","slug":"5240","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/14\/5240\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Assume Completion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never consider a biography in a county history complete. A variety of details can be left out for a variety of reasons. The 1907 biography shown here omits the first marriage of the subject&#8217;s mother, his two half-sisters, and his parents&#8217; divorce and remarriage, and second divorce. And there&#8217;s always the potential that some of the published details could be slightly incorrect. Use these as clues to further your research, not as established facts. <a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/biographies-leaving-out.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5241\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/biographies-leaving-out.jpg\" alt=\"biographies-leaving-out\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/biographies-leaving-out.jpg 600w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/biographies-leaving-out-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A big thanks to\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/1608GT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">GenealogyBank<\/a><\/em> for being our sponsor! Please check out their August offer for\u00a0<em>Tip of the Day<\/em> readers, fans, and followers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never consider a biography in a county history complete. A variety of details can be left out for a variety of reasons. The 1907 biography shown here omits the first marriage of the subject&#8217;s mother, his two half-sisters, and his parents&#8217; divorce and remarriage, and second divorce. And there&#8217;s always the potential that some of [&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-5240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240","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=5240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}