{"id":6956,"date":"2018-05-20T13:51:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T13:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6956"},"modified":"2018-05-20T13:51:32","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T13:51:32","slug":"direct-or-indirect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6956","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":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6956","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=6956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}