{"id":7629,"date":"2017-12-06T12:01:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T18:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7629"},"modified":"2017-12-06T12:01:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T18:01:46","slug":"what-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/06\/what-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"What You Think&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5031 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_20160702_133011-1-e1503723979412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_20160702_133011-1-e1503723979412.jpg 526w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_20160702_133011-1-e1503723979412-252x300.jpg 252w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How much information in your genealogy files is there because you &#8220;thought&#8221; it instead of finding a record or source to provide evidence of it?<\/p>\n<p>You may think that your relatives were married in a certain town, but the marriage record only says the name of the county.<\/p>\n<p>You may think great-great-grandpa was born in Jackson Township, Coshocton County, Ohio, but all the records you have only say the name of the county.<\/p>\n<p>You may think that your grandparents attended the same church as your great-grandparents, but it&#8217;s possible they did not.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers want to think. It&#8217;s essential.<\/p>\n<p>Just remember that before putting down locations, events, etc. we need more than just what we think to be true.<\/p>\n<p>Review materials you compiled early in your research? Is there information you put down because you &#8220;thought&#8221; it was true? That could be why you have a brick wall.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Check out\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/1712GT\">GenealogyBank<\/a><\/em>&#8216;s offer for our fans, followers, and subscribers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much information in your genealogy files is there because you &#8220;thought&#8221; it instead of finding a record or source to provide evidence of it? You may think that your relatives were married in a certain town, but the marriage record only says the name of the county. You may think great-great-grandpa was born in [&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-7629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629","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=7629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}