{"id":5640,"date":"2016-10-26T08:39:51","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T13:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5640"},"modified":"2016-10-26T08:39:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T13:39:51","slug":"why-track-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/26\/why-track-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Track &#8220;Why?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is important somewhere to keep track of your research logic as you progress. Otherwise you might not remember &#8220;why&#8221; you are researching a certain person.<\/p>\n<p>Several years ago I focused on a certain Benjamin Butler in an 1850 census enumeration as being &#8220;mine.&#8221; Using that enumeration as the starting point, I searched other records and made progress. I located a fair amount of information. One problem&#8211;I didn&#8217;t track WHY I thought this 1850 census entry was for the correct person. What I found later all tied to the 1850 guy, but not to the one who was really &#8220;mine.&#8221; It took me hours to reconstruct my reason and that was time wasted.<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen minutes to write up my reason to begin with would have saved me time later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is important somewhere to keep track of your research logic as you progress. Otherwise you might not remember &#8220;why&#8221; you are researching a certain person. Several years ago I focused on a certain Benjamin Butler in an 1850 census enumeration as being &#8220;mine.&#8221; Using that enumeration as the starting point, I searched other records [&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-5640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640","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=5640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}