{"id":9026,"date":"2018-10-07T09:39:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T14:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9026"},"modified":"2018-10-07T09:39:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T14:39:23","slug":"doggedly-pursuing-your-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/07\/doggedly-pursuing-your-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Doggedly Pursuing Your Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6363\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6363\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6363\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/riley-needs-out-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/riley-needs-out-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/riley-needs-out.jpg 276w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walking me for a little while may be the best brick wall breaker there is. And&#8230;.it will be less time cleaning up messes.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sometimes I talk to the dog and occasionally I&#8217;ll ask Riley for a &#8220;genealogy tip.&#8221; Of course his answers come from my head and not his no matter how I change my voice.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s really good to get the opinion of someone &#8220;outside your own head,&#8221; from someone who doesn&#8217;t have all the assumptions about the family that you do and may have a fresh perspective. There are times where that&#8217;s helpful.<\/p>\n<p>Just be careful from whom you take genealogical advice&#8211;especially when money or significant amounts of time are involved. Riley&#8217;s a sweet little dog, but if he could talk I&#8217;m not certain how helpful he&#8217;d be on 17th century Virginia court records.<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230;taking him for a walk and distracting myself from what I&#8217;m working on is another good problem-solving technique in its own right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I talk to the dog and occasionally I&#8217;ll ask Riley for a &#8220;genealogy tip.&#8221; Of course his answers come from my head and not his no matter how I change my voice. Sometimes it&#8217;s really good to get the opinion of someone &#8220;outside your own head,&#8221; from someone who doesn&#8217;t have all the assumptions [&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-9026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9026","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=9026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}