{"id":9564,"date":"2019-01-30T11:38:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T17:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9564"},"modified":"2019-01-30T11:38:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T17:38:44","slug":"quit-surfing-and-do-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/30\/quit-surfing-and-do-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Quit Surfing and Do Something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It can be easy to waste &#8220;research&#8221; time by mindlessly looking at online sites for one thing or another.\u00a0 Some ways to avoid these time wasting activities are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>make a list of research tasks you wish to accomplish;<\/li>\n<li>turn your internet connection off;<\/li>\n<li>make a list of documents to transcribe;<\/li>\n<li>make a list of &#8220;done&#8221; ancestors that should be reviewed;<\/li>\n<li>set a schedule of when to go back and check a site for an update to a database (daily is probably excessive);<\/li>\n<li>lists in general are good.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chasing some research leads down those &#8220;rabbit holes&#8221; can be a good thing&#8211;sometimes. But it can be easy to waste an inordinate amount of time chasing after half-baked, uncooked leads on your computer, when you&#8217;ve got three perfectly good cookies sitting on the counter.\u00a0 The only problem is that you have to get off your chair to get them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can be easy to waste &#8220;research&#8221; time by mindlessly looking at online sites for one thing or another.\u00a0 Some ways to avoid these time wasting activities are: make a list of research tasks you wish to accomplish; turn your internet connection off; make a list of documents to transcribe; make a list of &#8220;done&#8221; [&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-9564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9564","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=9564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}