{"id":5548,"date":"2016-10-02T12:23:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T17:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5548"},"modified":"2016-10-02T12:23:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T17:23:17","slug":"four-things-before-thinking-about-a-professional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/02\/four-things-before-thinking-about-a-professional\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Things Before Thinking About a Professional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before you even considering hiring a professional researcher, do the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>decide what you really want to know<\/li>\n<li>organize the information you have<\/li>\n<li>transcribe documents in your possession<\/li>\n<li>create a research log of all that you have searched and the results<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You may realize that you already know the answer to your problem or that you have more work to do that you can do yourself. And a professional will need to know what you&#8217;ve done and what you have found so that time and money is not wasted.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Genealogy Tip of the Day<\/em> is sponsored by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/gbnk\/?utm_source=9378&amp;utm_medium=gbhp_text&amp;utm_campaign=affil&amp;kbid=9378&amp;m=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>\u00a0<\/em>GenealogyBank.com\u2013search for your ancestors today.<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/affiliates.genealogybank.com\/b.aspx?id=9378&amp;mm=3\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before you even considering hiring a professional researcher, do the following: decide what you really want to know organize the information you have transcribe documents in your possession create a research log of all that you have searched and the results You may realize that you already know the answer to your problem or that [&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-5548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5548","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=5548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}