{"id":948,"date":"2009-06-02T00:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T05:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/weekly-genealogy-blogging-prompt-21\/"},"modified":"2013-07-11T22:45:25","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T03:45:25","slug":"weekly-genealogy-blogging-prompt-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/weekly-genealogy-blogging-prompt-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Genealogy Blogging Prompt #21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prompt:<\/strong>\u00a0 Lessons learned. Fess up to your research mistakes so others can learn from them.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I think my biggest \u201coops\u201d was not properly sourcing the data I accumulated (or even sourcing at all!!).\u00a0 In all fairness, when I started out, it was mainly just for me, so sourcing wasn\u2019t of a huge importance.\u00a0 But as I got more into genealogy, I began to realize the importance, especially if I want to share information.<\/p>\n<p>And as I later realized, it became important to me.\u00a0 Many times if I came across a \u201cfact\u201d during a search, especially in cases where information was contradicting, I sometimes wondered, \u201cwhere in the world did I get that original information from?\u201d\u00a0 Now, with everything sourced, I know where the information came from, and I can easily retrieve it for further examination if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve also come to value or question the data of others.\u00a0 When a researcher provides their sources it tells me that they are serious about their research, they\u2019ve invested some time, and are likely correct in their assumptions.\u00a0 On the flipside, I now tend to question unsourced data, because who know where the person obtained the information.\u00a0 Sometimes I use the information as a stepping-stone and do my own research, but other times I simply discredit their research altogether and figure I\u2019ll fair far better on my own path.<\/p>\n<p>The moral of the story:\u00a0 Source <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">everything<\/span>!!!!\u00a0 Yes it can be cumbersome and time consuming.\u00a0 But you\u2019ll thank yourself for it later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt:\u00a0 Lessons learned. Fess up to your research mistakes so others can learn from them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","category-genblog","cat-27-id","cat-25-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-fi","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4089,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/4089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}