{"id":9524,"date":"2019-01-22T23:17:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T05:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9524"},"modified":"2019-01-22T23:17:38","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T05:17:38","slug":"breaking-down-the-informant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/22\/breaking-down-the-informant\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Down the Informant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If a document gives a clear informant, ask yourself:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>what information did the informant know first hand;<\/li>\n<li>what information did the informant know because someone told him;<\/li>\n<li>would there have been motivation to lie;<\/li>\n<li>what information might she have guessed the answer to.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If a document does not give an informant, ask yourself:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>was there more than one probable informant;<\/li>\n<li>who was the most likely informant;<\/li>\n<li>how likely was the informant to know the information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Always ask yourself:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>were there any penalties for lying on the document;<\/li>\n<li>how likely was it that the informant be caught in a lie;<\/li>\n<li>was there a motivation for the informant to lie.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Inform yourself and think about the informant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a document gives a clear informant, ask yourself: what information did the informant know first hand; what information did the informant know because someone told him; would there have been motivation to lie; what information might she have guessed the answer to. If a document does not give an informant, ask yourself: was there [&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-9524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9524","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=9524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}