{"id":6451,"date":"2017-04-11T15:19:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T20:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6451"},"modified":"2017-04-11T15:19:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T20:19:15","slug":"jumping-to-the-correct-conclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/11\/jumping-to-the-correct-conclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Jumping to the Correct Conclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always assumed that my great-grandparents met because they grew up on farms a few miles apart. It&#8217;s an easy conclusion as proximity facilitates relationships. But there was more to it. I learned later that he worked for a few years as a hired man for his future mother-in-law.\u00a0It&#8217;s not unusual for the hired man to marry one of the daughters. It&#8217;s not those details that are the point.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0reminder is that we should not quit looking for &#8220;reasons&#8221; just because we have the\u00a0reason. We may not know the whole story. While our initial &#8220;reason&#8221; may be valid, the other reasons may provide additional insight and research suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>Jumping to the correct conclusion can sometimes limit us. But it is better than jumping to the wrong conclusion.<\/p>\n<p><em>Genealogy Tip of the Day<\/em> is proudly sponsored by\u00a0<em>GenealogyBank. <\/em>Try their \u201c<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\">GenealogyBank Search<\/a>\u201d and see what discoveries you make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always assumed that my great-grandparents met because they grew up on farms a few miles apart. It&#8217;s an easy conclusion as proximity facilitates relationships. But there was more to it. I learned later that he worked for a few years as a hired man for his future mother-in-law.\u00a0It&#8217;s not unusual for the hired man [&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-6451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6451","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=6451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}