{"id":9431,"date":"2018-12-31T08:54:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T14:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9431"},"modified":"2018-12-31T08:54:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T14:54:20","slug":"simple-ways-to-break-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/31\/simple-ways-to-break-through\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Ways to Break Through"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6633 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/69646_10151437242309379_118703378_n-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/69646_10151437242309379_118703378_n-1.jpg 771w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/69646_10151437242309379_118703378_n-1-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/69646_10151437242309379_118703378_n-1-768x650.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/69646_10151437242309379_118703378_n-1-624x528.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Really getting into these things takes some time, but here are some general things to remember when you are &#8220;stuck:&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Money and work<\/strong> motivate people to move and people are sometimes more mobile than we think-especially if opportunities were limited in the area where the person was living.<\/li>\n<li>Create a <strong>timeline<\/strong> of all events in your ancestor&#8217;s life. <strong>Gaps<\/strong> of more than a few years are opportunities for research. Lots of things can happen in two or three years.<\/li>\n<li>Do you<strong> really know<\/strong> what you think you know? How do you know it? Did you assume when you should not have?<\/li>\n<li>Do you know <strong>where that source<\/strong> came from?<\/li>\n<li>Could you be <strong>wrong<\/strong>?<\/li>\n<li>Are you familiar with <strong>all sources<\/strong> in the area&#8211;civil (all levels of government) and private records?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really getting into these things takes some time, but here are some general things to remember when you are &#8220;stuck:&#8221; Money and work motivate people to move and people are sometimes more mobile than we think-especially if opportunities were limited in the area where the person was living. Create a timeline of all events in [&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-9431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9431","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=9431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}