{"id":8949,"date":"2018-09-21T08:56:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T13:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8949"},"modified":"2018-09-21T08:56:53","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T13:56:53","slug":"just-bake-the-genealogy-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/21\/just-bake-the-genealogy-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Bake the Genealogy Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In some cases your family history research may never be finished. It&#8217;s a fact of research. The best bet is to write up and organize what you have now, before it is too late.<\/p>\n<p>Even if your research is incomplete, leaving behind a written up discussion of your research process (with citations&#8211;even if not perfect&#8211;the world will not end) and your conclusions is better than leaving a pile (or a hard drive) full of unorganized and un-analyzed material. Later researchers can build upon what you have done.<\/p>\n<p>Just start putting things together. Genealogy is the cake batter that&#8217;s never &#8220;quite ready for the oven.&#8221; Sometimes you just have to bake it.<\/p>\n<p>This metaphor may be half-baked, but hopefully readers get the point.<\/p>\n<p>If you find more information, just add it to the frosting (grin!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In some cases your family history research may never be finished. It&#8217;s a fact of research. The best bet is to write up and organize what you have now, before it is too late. Even if your research is incomplete, leaving behind a written up discussion of your research process (with citations&#8211;even if not perfect&#8211;the [&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-8949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8949","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=8949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}