{"id":8002,"date":"2018-02-18T10:25:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T16:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8002"},"modified":"2018-02-18T10:25:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T16:25:19","slug":"do-you-double-check-before-you-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/18\/do-you-double-check-before-you-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Double Check Before You Post?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8003\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/wiliam-was-actually-james-300x127.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/wiliam-was-actually-james-300x127.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/wiliam-was-actually-james.jpg 539w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I was writing a blog post about a relative and was certain he was never listed with his actual given name of James in any record.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was wrong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He was listed as James in a handful of early records&#8211;just not ones after he became an adult.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just memory that can be wrong. Double check those assumptions you have about history before you post or share them as well&#8211;ask yourself &#8220;how do I know that? &#8220;Do some research and find out.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes when I do that I realize that I am right. Sometimes I realize I am wrong.<\/p>\n<p>But I usually learn something and my research is better for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was writing a blog post about a relative and was certain he was never listed with his actual given name of James in any record. I was wrong. He was listed as James in a handful of early records&#8211;just not ones after he became an adult. It&#8217;s not just memory that can be wrong. [&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-8002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002","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=8002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}