{"id":9993,"date":"2020-07-13T22:47:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T22:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9993"},"modified":"2024-05-14T21:29:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T21:29:29","slug":"nehgs-and-absolute-certainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9993","title":{"rendered":"NEHGS and Absolute Certainty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"717\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/guaranteed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9994\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/guaranteed.jpg 717w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/guaranteed-300x241.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 717px) 100vw, 717px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to an email I received from NEHGS (New England Historic Genealogical Society) today, they will let you know &#8220;with absolute certainty&#8221; if a lineage is correct. They will not check your entire tree for the $500 fee, but they will check one line of descent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many genealogical conclusions, particularly ones involving individuals born before the mid-19th century, can potentially be subject to revision. I&#8217;ll let readers decide how they feel about &#8220;absolute certainty.&#8221; I do understand the desire to have someone else look over your research. But I suspect if someone is willing to drop $500 to &#8220;check&#8221; a lineage there are possibly some conclusions in that lineage that are &#8220;solid.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not certain how I feel about &#8220;absolute certainty.&#8221; I&#8217;m leaning towards the fact that it doesn&#8217;t exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But if I&#8217;ve got an extra $500 to spend on my research, I&#8217;ll probably either spend that money to get some records I need or hire someone I know to work on a specific project for me&#8211;perhaps do some more work on that connection in the lineage I&#8217;m not too certain about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That might be money better spent than having someone review my research on the entire lineage&#8211;chances are there&#8217;s just one link that&#8217;s the real problem. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an email I received from NEHGS (New England Historic Genealogical Society) today, they will let you know &#8220;with absolute certainty&#8221; if a lineage is correct. They will not check your entire tree for the $500 fee, but they will check one line of descent. Many genealogical conclusions, particularly ones involving individuals born before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9993","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=9993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11068,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9993\/revisions\/11068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}