{"id":8204,"date":"2018-04-06T15:32:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T20:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8204"},"modified":"2018-04-06T15:32:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T20:32:29","slug":"1000-places-does-not-a-fact-guarantee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/06\/1000-places-does-not-a-fact-guarantee\/","title":{"rendered":"1000 Places Does Not a Fact Guarantee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just because you see a &#8220;fact&#8221; written in 1,000 places does not mean that it is true. Genealogical analysis can&#8217;t be covered in a short tip and we&#8217;re not going to try, but remember:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Different records that say the same thing may have had the same original &#8220;source&#8221; if Grandma Barbara was the one who always gave the information. Just because she repeated it over and over does not make it true.<\/li>\n<li>1,000 online trees that agree does not mean they are correct. It just means that they probably have the same original &#8220;source,&#8221; right or wrong.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Whether a written reference to a &#8220;fact&#8221; is &#8220;wrong or right,&#8221; depends upon our perceived reliability of the record and the informant.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Not how many times it&#8217;s been repeated.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just because you see a &#8220;fact&#8221; written in 1,000 places does not mean that it is true. Genealogical analysis can&#8217;t be covered in a short tip and we&#8217;re not going to try, but remember: Different records that say the same thing may have had the same original &#8220;source&#8221; if Grandma Barbara was the one who [&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-8204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8204","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=8204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}