{"id":7355,"date":"2017-10-14T07:50:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T12:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7355"},"modified":"2017-10-14T07:50:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T12:50:52","slug":"change-one-thing-you-think-is-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/14\/change-one-thing-you-think-is-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Change One Thing You Think Is True"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When searching an online database or index for a specific person, chances are you have entered some of these key pieces of information about that person in order to search:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>age<\/li>\n<li>name<\/li>\n<li>place of birth<\/li>\n<li>residence<\/li>\n<li>name of spouse<\/li>\n<li>year of arrival<\/li>\n<li>year of death<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Those key elements about a person are also useful when trying to determine if you have the &#8220;right&#8221; person in a record. But what if one of those key elements was wrong? Either you have it wrong or it&#8217;s wrong in the record. Either way it will not match.<\/p>\n<p>And&#8230;a good research approach in general is to ask yourself:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If one thing that I think is true about my ancestor was not true&#8211;how would that change how I look for her?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When searching an online database or index for a specific person, chances are you have entered some of these key pieces of information about that person in order to search: age name place of birth residence name of spouse year of arrival year of death Those key elements about a person are also useful when [&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-7355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7355","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=7355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}