{"id":8889,"date":"2018-09-07T13:33:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T18:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8889"},"modified":"2018-09-07T13:33:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T18:33:35","slug":"climbing-out-of-the-online-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/07\/climbing-out-of-the-online-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Climbing out of the Online Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally I use one of the online trees to give me a little boost or nudge when working on a family&#8211;especially when I need some general direction.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes they are helpful and sometimes not. Recently when working on a family in Stow, Massachusetts, in the 18th century, I took a look at the\u00a0<em>FamilySearch<\/em> tree on the family. What I found had significant differences from what was in the will of the father of the family. At that point, I decided to focus on the wills and probate records of the families under study, transcribe those, interpret those and go from there.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it is best to just start from scratch and work from the original records.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about research, methods, and sources in\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/casefileclues.genealogytipoftheday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Casefile Clues<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally I use one of the online trees to give me a little boost or nudge when working on a family&#8211;especially when I need some general direction. Sometimes they are helpful and sometimes not. Recently when working on a family in Stow, Massachusetts, in the 18th century, I took a look at the\u00a0FamilySearch tree on [&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-8889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8889","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=8889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}