{"id":7608,"date":"2017-12-01T10:30:09","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T16:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7608"},"modified":"2017-12-01T10:30:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T16:30:09","slug":"different-places-of-birth-do-not-necessarily-mean-different-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/01\/different-places-of-birth-do-not-necessarily-mean-different-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Different Places of Birth Do Not Necessarily Mean Different Person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Any record can be wrong.\u00a0 A person\u00a0can provide different places of birth from one record to another. And&#8230;we sometimes can&#8217;t even be certain who provided the information about that person. Different informants can be the reason information conflicts.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t immediately conclude that you&#8217;ve got &#8220;two different people&#8221; just because census records provide different places of birth. Look at the other information the record provides about that person&#8211;the age, the residence, occupation, other family members, etc.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about the whole person and all the information&#8211;not just one record or one fact.<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t make inconsistent information &#8220;fit&#8221; just because it &#8220;fits&#8221; your theory or extends your tree further back. Analyze it, understand it, and make certain your conclusions and inferences are logical.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any record can be wrong.\u00a0 A person\u00a0can provide different places of birth from one record to another. And&#8230;we sometimes can&#8217;t even be certain who provided the information about that person. Different informants can be the reason information conflicts. Don&#8217;t immediately conclude that you&#8217;ve got &#8220;two different people&#8221; just because census records provide different places of [&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-7608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7608","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=7608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}