{"id":9221,"date":"2019-09-18T14:16:48","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T14:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9221"},"modified":"2019-09-18T14:16:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T14:16:52","slug":"some-research-suggestions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9221","title":{"rendered":"Some Research Suggestions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some research suggestions to remember as your research progresses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Use contemporary&nbsp;[to the problem]&nbsp;maps<\/li><li>Cite sources<\/li><li>Avoid using record transcriptions<\/li><li>Determine a record&#8217;s likely informant<\/li><li>Question the reliability of the likely informant<\/li><li>Ask &#8220;how did this record get to me from its&nbsp;<em>original&nbsp;<\/em>location?&#8221;<\/li><li>Question (respectfully) the conclusions of others<\/li><li>List the assumptions that have been made<\/li><li>Reorganize the information in a different way?<\/li><li>Do other record sources have copies of the same record?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Not an exhaustive list by any stretch of the imagination, but enough to keep me busy! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some research suggestions to remember as your research progresses: Use contemporary&nbsp;[to the problem]&nbsp;maps Cite sources Avoid using record transcriptions Determine a record&#8217;s likely informant Question the reliability of the likely informant Ask &#8220;how did this record get to me from its&nbsp;original&nbsp;location?&#8221; Question (respectfully) the conclusions of others List the assumptions that have been [&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-9221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9221","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=9221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}