{"id":7231,"date":"2017-09-18T10:36:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T15:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7231"},"modified":"2017-09-18T10:36:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T15:36:25","slug":"why-is-it-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/18\/why-is-it-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is It Wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t &#8220;throw out&#8221; information that conflicts or appears to be in error. See if you can determine what might have caused the information to be incorrect. My great-grandmother was supposedly born in one of three towns in 1874. It turned out that each town was somewhere she had lived as a child before her family finally settled in a more permanent location.<\/p>\n<p>As always, transcribe the documents exactly as they are written and include your analysis of what&#8217;s wrong in a way that makes it clear that it&#8217;s separate from the actual document.<\/p>\n<p>And&#8230;remember that what you think is wrong today may end up being correct tomorrow when more information is located.<\/p>\n<p><em>Genealogy Tip of the Day<\/em>\u00a0is proudly sponsored by\u00a0<em>GenealogyBank.\u00a0<\/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 noopener noreferrer\">GenealogyBank Search<\/a>\u201d and see what discoveries you make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t &#8220;throw out&#8221; information that conflicts or appears to be in error. See if you can determine what might have caused the information to be incorrect. My great-grandmother was supposedly born in one of three towns in 1874. It turned out that each town was somewhere she had lived as a child before her family [&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-7231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7231","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=7231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}