{"id":7617,"date":"2017-12-03T10:44:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T16:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7617"},"modified":"2017-12-03T10:44:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T16:44:54","slug":"get-out-of-your-comfort-zone-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/03\/get-out-of-your-comfort-zone-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Out of Your Comfort Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It can be easy to get stuck in a genealogical rut.<\/p>\n<p>Consider working on an entire new family&#8211;in a location that is different and with people who are members of a different ethnic group or social class. The location should really be different&#8211;three counties away in the same state usually isn&#8217;t different&#8211;unless one area is urban and one is rural. Consider changing up your time period as well.<\/p>\n<p>In trying to &#8220;figure out&#8221; my DNA matches, I&#8217;ve been forced to do more mid-to-late 20th century research than I usually do. That&#8217;s good. Doing it has allowed me to go back to my other time periods and locations with renewed interest.<\/p>\n<p>And I made a few discoveries in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can be easy to get stuck in a genealogical rut. Consider working on an entire new family&#8211;in a location that is different and with people who are members of a different ethnic group or social class. The location should really be different&#8211;three counties away in the same state usually isn&#8217;t different&#8211;unless one area is [&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-7617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7617","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=7617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}