{"id":9871,"date":"2019-04-07T10:22:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T15:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9871"},"modified":"2019-04-07T10:22:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T15:22:45","slug":"direct-or-indirect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/07\/direct-or-indirect\/","title":{"rendered":"Direct or Indirect?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the difference between<i>\u00a0indirect evidence<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>direct evidence<\/i>?<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>One good example is a voter&#8217;s list. Since a person has to be a citizen to vote, your ancestor&#8217;s name appearing on a voter&#8217;s list is indirect evidence that your foreign-born ancestor naturalized (assuming that the guy on the voter&#8217;s list really is your ancestor and not another guy with the same name). The evidence is indirect because the voter&#8217;s list doesn&#8217;t explicitly state that he was naturalized.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If the voter&#8217;s list is one of those that lists date and place of naturalization for voters, then the voter&#8217;s list would be direct evidence of his naturalization because it is specifically stating that he was naturalized.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Of course you ancestor could have lied about his citizenship status in order to vote, but that gets into accuracy of information which is a separate issue.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Indirect evidence can be more involved than in this little example, but this gets to the heart of the matter.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the difference between\u00a0indirect evidence\u00a0and\u00a0direct evidence? One good example is a voter&#8217;s list. Since a person has to be a citizen to vote, your ancestor&#8217;s name appearing on a voter&#8217;s list is indirect evidence that your foreign-born ancestor naturalized (assuming that the guy on the voter&#8217;s list really is your ancestor and not another [&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-9871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9871","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=9871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}