{"id":6820,"date":"2017-06-21T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6820"},"modified":"2017-06-21T10:00:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T15:00:36","slug":"expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/21\/expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several years ago, this was part of a tip that I wrote:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogical.com\/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;ref=1783&amp;item_number=3882&amp;affiliate_banner_id=1%22%20target=%22_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4933 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/19264594_10211707771884127_2099160655374722013_o-169x300.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/19264594_10211707771884127_2099160655374722013_o-169x300.jpg 169w, http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/19264594_10211707771884127_2099160655374722013_o-768x1364.jpg 768w, http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/19264594_10211707771884127_2099160655374722013_o-577x1024.jpg 577w, http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/19264594_10211707771884127_2099160655374722013_o.jpg 811w\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Don\u2019t demand greater accuracy from records than you are capable of yourself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s still true and I forgot I had written it until it appeared in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogical.com\/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;ref=1783&amp;item_number=3882&amp;affiliate_banner_id=1%22%20target=%22_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Tips &amp; Quips for the Family Historian<\/em> by Elizabeth Shown Mills<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to get frustrated with incorrect information in records. It&#8217;s understandable.<\/p>\n<p>But remember that your ancestors were just as human as you are and were inclined to make the occasional mistake as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several years ago, this was part of a tip that I wrote: Don\u2019t demand greater accuracy from records than you are capable of yourself. It&#8217;s still true and I forgot I had written it until it appeared in\u00a0Tips &amp; Quips for the Family Historian by Elizabeth Shown Mills. It&#8217;s easy to get frustrated with incorrect [&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-6820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6820","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=6820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}