{"id":7106,"date":"2017-08-20T14:07:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T19:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7106"},"modified":"2017-08-20T14:07:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T19:07:10","slug":"our-goals-for-us-and-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/20\/our-goals-for-us-and-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Goals&#8211;for Us and for You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our goals at\u00a0<em>Genealogy Tip of the Day<\/em> are relatively simple. We want you to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>think about the genealogical information you obtain&#8211;broadly put, &#8220;how accurate is it?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>think about &#8220;how&#8221; you research&#8211;am I interacting with information or reacting to it?<\/li>\n<li>be aware of &#8220;overlooked&#8221; sources&#8211;am I always using the same sources for every problem?<\/li>\n<li>be reminded of things that you may have forgotten&#8211;we all forget!<\/li>\n<li>remember that no one knows everything<\/li>\n<li>stay excited about your research&#8211;your ancestors&#8217; story needs to be uncovered<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We do have to sell things to keep the doors open&#8211;<em>but <strong>all<\/strong> are welcome to hang around and participate whether they make a purchase or not<\/em>. And&#8230;we don&#8217;t mention or link to anything that we have not actually purchased ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>And&#8230;as some of you know, there&#8217;s no &#8220;we&#8221; here&#8230;just me. Unless you count the dog &lt;grin&gt;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6714\" style=\"width: 1450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6714\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6714\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/18700551_10211515067266632_7501473398561865671_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/18700551_10211515067266632_7501473398561865671_o.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/18700551_10211515067266632_7501473398561865671_o-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/18700551_10211515067266632_7501473398561865671_o-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/18700551_10211515067266632_7501473398561865671_o-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/18700551_10211515067266632_7501473398561865671_o-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">West Point Cemetery, West Point, Hancock County, Illinois, taken 28 May 2017 by Michael John Neill&#8211;<em><\/em>it&#8217;s ok to break the rules when taking photographs. I think that my shadow in the picture makes a statement&#8211;and it&#8217;s not obstructing anything anyway.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our goals at\u00a0Genealogy Tip of the Day are relatively simple. We want you to: think about the genealogical information you obtain&#8211;broadly put, &#8220;how accurate is it?&#8221; think about &#8220;how&#8221; you research&#8211;am I interacting with information or reacting to it? be aware of &#8220;overlooked&#8221; sources&#8211;am I always using the same sources for every problem? be reminded [&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-7106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7106","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=7106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}