{"id":8555,"date":"2018-06-24T07:04:02","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T12:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8555"},"modified":"2020-03-04T08:34:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T14:34:10","slug":"establish-parameters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/24\/establish-parameters\/","title":{"rendered":"Establish Parameters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hasty research increases the chance that incorrect conclusions are made and that we include records for our &#8220;person of interest&#8221; who is not really our person of interest.<\/p>\n<p>To reduce the chance mistakes are made, take the records that you &#8220;know&#8221; are for your person of interest and estimate whichever items you do not have specifically:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a time frame for when they were born<\/li>\n<li>an approximate location for where they were born<\/li>\n<li>a time frame for their marriage<\/li>\n<li>an approximate location for their marriage<\/li>\n<li>a time frame for their death<\/li>\n<li>an approximate location for their death<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For all of these approximations, include your reason why you think the time frames and locations are reasonable&#8211;you should have at least one source document. These reasons combined with the records are key.<\/p>\n<p>Then look at the &#8220;new&#8221; records you think are for your ancestor. How closely do they match your expectations? Is the difference reasonable? Is it possible your conjectures were wrong?<\/p>\n<p>It may also cause you to question whether the records that you were &#8220;sure&#8221; were for your ancestor are really your ancestor at all.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve simplified the analysis process here&#8211;but this general framework, armed with analysis and contemplation, is a good start.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">Genealogy Tip of the Day\u00a0<\/a><\/em>book is here and it\u2019s not written to help you research your \u201cfamous ancestors.\u201d It\u2019s written to help with all of them.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">Learn more about it and get your own copy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hasty research increases the chance that incorrect conclusions are made and that we include records for our &#8220;person of interest&#8221; who is not really our person of interest. To reduce the chance mistakes are made, take the records that you &#8220;know&#8221; are for your person of interest and estimate whichever items you do not have [&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-8555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8555","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=8555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}