{"id":9370,"date":"2018-12-16T10:27:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T16:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9370"},"modified":"2019-12-28T09:05:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T15:05:43","slug":"when-you-cant-start-from-scratch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/16\/when-you-cant-start-from-scratch\/","title":{"rendered":"When You Can&#8217;t Start From Scratch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s difficult to\u00a0<em>really<\/em> start your genealogy research over. A researcher cannot erase the memory of what they have done or of what they have discovered. Instead of starting over, it&#8217;s best to re-evaluate:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>how did I get these facts that I think are true?<\/li>\n<li>how accurate are these sources I used?<\/li>\n<li>did I use multiple sources where possible?<\/li>\n<li>are there things I could improve about my research process?<\/li>\n<li>how did others solve similar problems?<\/li>\n<li>where could I have made a mistake?<\/li>\n<li>do I have the best copy of the original record?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Making corrections, increasing your knowledge level, re-evaluating what you have done are all great ways to improve the research you&#8217;ve done.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you just need a remodel and not a complete tear down.<\/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.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">Learn more about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s difficult to\u00a0really start your genealogy research over. A researcher cannot erase the memory of what they have done or of what they have discovered. Instead of starting over, it&#8217;s best to re-evaluate: how did I get these facts that I think are true? how accurate are these sources I used? did I use multiple [&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-9370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9370","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=9370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}