{"id":7565,"date":"2017-11-23T09:47:45","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T15:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7565"},"modified":"2017-11-24T09:51:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T15:51:16","slug":"the-cat-on-the-counter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/23\/the-cat-on-the-counter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cat On the Counter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cat didn&#8217;t mean to, but he was the &#8220;thought prompt&#8221; for today&#8217;s tip&#8211;<em>which is reprinted from 2014.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Are you breaking your research down into smaller tasks? Achieving your goal in one step may simply not be possible. And if researching a family seems like a project which you will never finish, consider focusing on one person or one problem at a time and not be concerned with getting &#8220;it all done&#8221; right away. Ask yourself what one little thing can I do today to help me solve my genealogy problem?<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-u1v5tuuf6Gw\/VHJ1OWkXt8I\/AAAAAAAAObw\/21X8QJd6E_U\/s1600\/cat-warning.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-u1v5tuuf6Gw\/VHJ1OWkXt8I\/AAAAAAAAObw\/21X8QJd6E_U\/s1600\/cat-warning.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"331\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>After all, Sammie got on the kitchen counter one step at a time.<\/p>\n<p>And your ancestor migrated from one place to another one step at a time as well. What was the most logical route to travel, where might he have stayed for a short time, and where might he have left records?<\/p>\n<p>Your ancestor may have ended up on the counter, but he may have left a trail in several other places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cat didn&#8217;t mean to, but he was the &#8220;thought prompt&#8221; for today&#8217;s tip&#8211;which is reprinted from 2014. Are you breaking your research down into smaller tasks? Achieving your goal in one step may simply not be possible. And if researching a family seems like a project which you will never finish, consider focusing on [&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-7565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7565","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=7565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}