{"id":6724,"date":"2018-04-22T15:47:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T15:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6724"},"modified":"2018-04-22T15:47:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T15:47:39","slug":"a-few-quick-reminders-from-michael-and-riley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6724","title":{"rendered":"A Few Quick Reminders&#8211;From Michael and Riley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6727 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/riley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/riley.jpg 332w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/riley-168x300.jpg 168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/>Riley is sitting on my lap as I review some recent discoveries. His advice is related to taking appropriate breaks, not losing your leash, and remembering boundaries (his are limited to the limits of our yard,\u00a0 but there&#8217;s a point there as well).<\/p>\n<p>Just a few quick reminders from me&#8211;apparently I need them as much as anyone else:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>discoveries can always be made <em><strong>no matter how long<\/strong> <\/em>you&#8217;ve researched an ancestor<\/li>\n<li>no matter how completely you think you have researched someone <em><strong>there could still be something &#8220;new&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> out there<\/li>\n<li>many of the &#8220;tree compilers&#8221; on various websites only use what is on other trees&#8211;they <em><strong>never get beyond the trees<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li>a record on your relative could be filed in a <em><strong>repository thousands of miles<\/strong> <\/em>from where they lived<\/li>\n<li>your DNA matches may not be nearly as interested in research as you are&#8211;and that&#8217;s fine<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>nurture relationships<\/strong> <\/em>with other researchers who are as interested as you are&#8211;you will be glad you did some day. Loyal genealogy friends can come in handy for a variety of reasons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riley is sitting on my lap as I review some recent discoveries. His advice is related to taking appropriate breaks, not losing your leash, and remembering boundaries (his are limited to the limits of our yard,\u00a0 but there&#8217;s a point there as well). Just a few quick reminders from me&#8211;apparently I need them as much [&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-6724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6724","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=6724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}