{"id":7333,"date":"2017-10-10T09:17:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T14:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7333"},"modified":"2017-10-10T09:16:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T14:16:32","slug":"why-my-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/10\/why-my-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Why They Are My People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is important somewhere to keep track of your research logic as you progress. Otherwise you might not remember &#8220;why&#8221; you are researching a certain person.<\/p>\n<p>While on a recent research trip, I focused on a certain Benjamin Butler in the 1850 census as being &#8220;mine.&#8221; Using that enumeration as the starting point, I searched other records and made research progress. A stack of papers, a file full of digital images, and records located were the end result. One problem&#8211;I didn&#8217;t track WHY I thought this 1850 census entry was for the correct person. It took me hours to reconstruct my reason.\u00a0That was time wasted.<\/p>\n<p>When I decided the 1850 guy was &#8220;mine,&#8221; I should have written down my reasons. They were valid reasons. Resurrecting them took time&#8211;time that could have been spent in a better way.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7334\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1850benjamin-butler.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"804\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1850benjamin-butler.jpg 804w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1850benjamin-butler-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1850benjamin-butler-768x563.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1850benjamin-butler-624x457.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 804px) 100vw, 804px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is important somewhere to keep track of your research logic as you progress. Otherwise you might not remember &#8220;why&#8221; you are researching a certain person. While on a recent research trip, I focused on a certain Benjamin Butler in the 1850 census as being &#8220;mine.&#8221; Using that enumeration as the starting point, I searched [&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":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7333","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=7333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}