{"id":4678,"date":"2017-05-10T15:12:40","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T15:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4678"},"modified":"2017-05-11T04:00:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T04:00:47","slug":"tips-and-quips-by-elizabeth-shown-mills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4678","title":{"rendered":"Tips and Quips by Elizabeth Shown Mills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4679\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/tips-quips.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/tips-quips.jpg 254w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/tips-quips-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/>I&#8217;ve ordered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogical.com\/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;ref=1783&amp;item_number=3882&amp;affiliate_banner_id=1\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Tips &amp; Quips for the Family Historian<\/em> by Elizabeth Shown Mills<\/a> from Genealogical Publishing Company. \u00a0It&#8217;s not meant as a how-to guide, but is intended as (quoting the website) &#8220;bedside reading.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The way my mind operates, reading any genealogical material while trying to sleep means that I won&#8217;t sleep as it will only get me to thinking about a specific research problem. That defeats my definition of bedside reading.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds like perfect airplane reading to me&#8211;it appears to be a book that one can put down and pick up easily if one needs to and that doesn&#8217;t require extended amounts of concentration time. \u00a0That&#8217;s not meant as an insult, just an assumption based upon the marketing material I&#8217;ve seen for the book.<\/p>\n<p>And&#8230;I fully intend to annotate the book in pencil as I read it.\u00a0I read to get ideas and, for me, the best place to write those down is right in the book itself.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: As of this post, it looked like Amazon.com delivery of these books was taking forever so we have not included a link to the sales page there.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve ordered Tips &amp; Quips for the Family Historian by Elizabeth Shown Mills from Genealogical Publishing Company. \u00a0It&#8217;s not meant as a how-to guide, but is intended as (quoting the website) &#8220;bedside reading.&#8221; The way my mind operates, reading any genealogical material while trying to sleep means that I won&#8217;t sleep as it will only [&hellip;]<\/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-4678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4678","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=4678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}