{"id":1039,"date":"2015-09-08T00:57:34","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T00:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2015-09-08T00:57:34","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T00:57:34","slug":"ten-genealogy-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1039","title":{"rendered":"Ten Genealogy Myths"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are certain to be more, but here’s ten myths–or combinations of myths:<\/p>\n

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  1. FamilySearch<\/em>\u00a0&\u00a0Ancestry.com<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>have\u00a0everything.<\/li>\n
  2. My relative’s name was changed at Ellis Island.<\/li>\n
  3. Grandma was right.<\/li>\n
  4. Grandma was wrong.<\/li>\n
  5. “That” never happened in our family.<\/li>\n
  6. If it’s on more than one website, it must be true.<\/li>\n
  7. I can do all my research on the internet because the courthouse always burned.<\/li>\n
  8. Genealogy has to be\u00a0free.<\/li>\n
  9. There will be a day I get it all “done.”<\/li>\n
  10. We descend from one of three stowaway immigrant brothers who all married Indian Princesses immediately upon arrival.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    There are certain to be more, but here’s ten myths–or combinations of myths: FamilySearch\u00a0&\u00a0Ancestry.com\u00a0have\u00a0everything. My relative’s name was changed at Ellis Island. Grandma was right. Grandma was wrong. “That” never happened in our family. If it’s on more than one website, it must be true. I can do all my research on the internet because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}