{"id":5392,"date":"2016-09-07T14:04:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T19:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5392"},"modified":"2016-09-07T14:04:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T19:04:52","slug":"helping-a-newbie-to-get-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/07\/helping-a-newbie-to-get-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping a Newbie to Get Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Grandma&#8217;s signature looks like my mother&#8217;s,&#8221; was my colleague&#8217;s response when I found her application for a military tombstone for her husband. I could see the excitement in her eyes as she saw the document for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes when we&#8217;ve researched for a while, some of that excitement is gone&#8211;or at least we don&#8217;t experience it that often. It can also be easy to get stuck in a rut, forget about certain sources, forget basic ways to search, and become lost in our own perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Helping a newer genealogist, or just another genealogist, can be the break you need to get a fresh perspective on your own research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Grandma&#8217;s signature looks like my mother&#8217;s,&#8221; was my colleague&#8217;s response when I found her application for a military tombstone for her husband. I could see the excitement in her eyes as she saw the document for the first time. Sometimes when we&#8217;ve researched for a while, some of that excitement is gone&#8211;or at least we [&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-5392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5392","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=5392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}