{"id":5984,"date":"2017-01-04T21:29:47","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T03:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5984"},"modified":"2017-01-04T21:30:49","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T03:30:49","slug":"break-the-stories-into-bits-and-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/04\/break-the-stories-into-bits-and-pieces\/","title":{"rendered":"Break the Stories into Bits and Pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stories told to you by relatives are not always completely true.<br \/>\nStories told to you by relatives are not always completely false.<br \/>\nThe reality is that the &#8220;truth&#8221; rests somewhere in between.<\/p>\n<p>Take any family story and break it into the parts that might have left a record and those arts that likely did not. Use those parts as clues.<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230;remember your goal is not to prove the story. Your goal is to try and find the truth-or at least the evidence that was left behind. The stories should be used to find some direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stories told to you by relatives are not always completely true. Stories told to you by relatives are not always completely false. The reality is that the &#8220;truth&#8221; rests somewhere in between. Take any family story and break it into the parts that might have left a record and those arts that likely did not. [&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-5984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984","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=5984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}