{"id":7353,"date":"2017-10-13T18:49:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T23:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7353"},"modified":"2017-10-13T18:49:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T23:49:08","slug":"but-that-tells-me-what-i-already-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/13\/but-that-tells-me-what-i-already-know\/","title":{"rendered":"But That Tells Me What I Already Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-6250\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/string-finger-remember.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/string-finger-remember.jpg 418w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/string-finger-remember-251x300.jpg 251w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/>Sometimes researchers wonder why they should get something when &#8220;it&#8217;s only going to tell me what I already know.&#8221; That&#8217;s a valid concern, but there are times when that record that &#8220;repeats&#8221; what other records say can be helpful, such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the first record has a questionable informant<\/li>\n<li>the first record really doesn&#8217;t make sense<\/li>\n<li>the first record is difficult to read<\/li>\n<li>the first record is one that may be inaccurate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And there is always the chance that the &#8220;record that tells what you already know&#8221; has information that you&#8217;ve not located elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t know until you look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes researchers wonder why they should get something when &#8220;it&#8217;s only going to tell me what I already know.&#8221; That&#8217;s a valid concern, but there are times when that record that &#8220;repeats&#8221; what other records say can be helpful, such as: the first record has a questionable informant the first record really doesn&#8217;t make sense [&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-7353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7353","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=7353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}