{"id":6204,"date":"2017-02-19T11:01:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T17:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6204"},"modified":"2017-02-19T11:01:39","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T17:01:39","slug":"tear-down-your-assumptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/19\/tear-down-your-assumptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Tear Down Your Assumptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve mentioned this before, but some problems can be worked around or solved by thinking about every assumption we have made about an ancestor and &#8220;their situation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Every assumption.<\/p>\n<p>Especially those that are near and dear to our heart. Those are the ones that can create the biggest stumbling blocks. \u00a0If you don&#8217;t have documentation for a &#8220;fact&#8221; about your ancestor, then that fact could be incorrect. Even if you do have documentation for a fact, that documentation could be incorrect.<\/p>\n<p>Always consider the possibility that what you think you know could be wrong&#8211;and then ask yourself:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>what would I do differently if this &#8220;fact&#8221; weren&#8217;t true?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And then do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve mentioned this before, but some problems can be worked around or solved by thinking about every assumption we have made about an ancestor and &#8220;their situation.&#8221; Every assumption. Especially those that are near and dear to our heart. Those are the ones that can create the biggest stumbling blocks. \u00a0If you don&#8217;t have documentation [&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-6204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204","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=6204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}