{"id":6508,"date":"2017-04-25T12:14:26","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T17:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6508"},"modified":"2017-04-25T12:15:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T17:15:56","slug":"three-days-off-in-1858","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/25\/three-days-off-in-1858\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Days off in 1858"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6509 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/dates-right-or-not.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/dates-right-or-not.jpg 464w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/dates-right-or-not-300x261.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/>Compare the actual date of a record with the date indicated by the database. Don&#8217;t assume the database is correct and use the actual record date where possible since it&#8217;s more accurate.<\/p>\n<p>Any database can occasionally have a date incorrect. Small differences usually don&#8217;t have a huge impact on research conclusions, but sometimes they do&#8211;depending upon how &#8220;off&#8221; the incorrect date is.<\/p>\n<p>Doublecheck.<\/p>\n<p>And maybe doublecheck again.<\/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><a href=\"http:\/\/searchtip.genealogytipoftheday.com\/_wp_link_placeholder\">\u201d and see what discoveries you make.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compare the actual date of a record with the date indicated by the database. Don&#8217;t assume the database is correct and use the actual record date where possible since it&#8217;s more accurate. Any database can occasionally have a date incorrect. Small differences usually don&#8217;t have a huge impact on research conclusions, but sometimes they do&#8211;depending [&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-6508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6508","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=6508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}