{"id":6477,"date":"2017-04-18T16:04:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T21:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6477"},"modified":"2017-04-18T16:04:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T21:04:32","slug":"get-out-of-your-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/18\/get-out-of-your-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Out of Your Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was chatting on Facebook with a fellow genealogist about one of our common families. Our discussion got me to thinking about a relative I&#8217;ve not researched in a while and I decided to start searching passenger lists for this person\u00a0<em>using what I could remember about the deceased ancestor off the top of my head.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mistake.<\/p>\n<p>Big mistake.<\/p>\n<p>Changing gears and working on a person or a family you have not researched in a while is a great way to make headway&#8211;a fresh start works wonders. But go back and review the information that has been located already. Don&#8217;t research based on details you remember &#8220;off the top of your head.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chances are there are details that are remembered incorrectly and searching based on those details can waste time and increase frustration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was chatting on Facebook with a fellow genealogist about one of our common families. Our discussion got me to thinking about a relative I&#8217;ve not researched in a while and I decided to start searching passenger lists for this person\u00a0using what I could remember about the deceased ancestor off the top of my head. [&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-6477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6477","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=6477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}