{"id":29648,"date":"2013-11-12T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T21:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=29648"},"modified":"2013-11-12T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T21:00:06","slug":"advice-on-how-to-research-family-history-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=29648","title":{"rendered":"Advice on How to Research Family History, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following excerpt is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/\">NYtimes.com<\/a> website, 11\/6\/2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Starting Our Genealogical Journey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/06\/booming\/advice-on-how-to-research-family-history-part-1.html?_r=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Elizabeth-Shown-Mills-200p.jpg\" alt=\"Elizabeth-Shown-Mills-200p\" width=\"200\" height=\"243\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-29649\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Q.<\/strong> <em>I am the ultimate beginner. I am curious about my family history, but I don\u2019t even know what I\u2019m looking for or where to begin. What\u2019s the best way to start going down what is clearly a rabbit hole? What kinds of documents are the easiest to hunt down and the most informative to find? Where do I go looking for such things, and how much information do I need to have already?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong> Googling for Grandma is the most tempting way to begin. It\u2019s also a good way to get overwhelmed with the sheer number of Google hits or to create an ancestral identity crisis by marrying Grandma off to a man she never so much as met. You\u2019re wise to approach this as you would any other adventure you\u2019re about to make into a different place whose customs and resources will be new to you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/06\/booming\/advice-on-how-to-research-family-history-part-1.html?_r=0\">Read the full article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following excerpt is from NYtimes.com website, 11\/6\/2013 Starting Our Genealogical Journey Q. I am the ultimate beginner. I am curious about my family history, but I don\u2019t even know what I\u2019m looking for or where to begin. What\u2019s the <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=29648\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Advice on How to Research Family History, Part 1<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,415],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-how-to","category-getting-started-in-genealogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29651,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29648\/revisions\/29651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}