{"id":1174,"date":"2013-08-19T09:27:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T16:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2013-08-19T09:27:17","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T16:27:17","slug":"youre-right-because-your-facts-and-your-reasoning-are-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/19\/youre-right-because-your-facts-and-your-reasoning-are-right\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;re Right Because Your Facts and Your Reasoning Are Right&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>You&#8217;re neither right or wrong because people agree with you.\u00a0 You&#8217;re right because your facts and your reasoning are right.\u00a0 Warren Buffett<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If this statement resonates with you, you might enjoy <em><strong>Tap Dancing to Work:\u00a0 Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012.<\/strong><\/em> edited by Carol Loomis.\u00a0 A <em><strong>Fortune<\/strong> <strong>Magazine<\/strong><\/em> Book, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Research wisdom could guide us all in our pursuit of the right ancestors&#8211;those hard-to-find people who always seem to be found in in the Unattached Ancestors section of the latest family histories.\u00a0 Or &#8220;left over ancestors&#8221; when you get through matching the marriages to the census entries.<\/p>\n<p>Actually I call these guys <em>Hidden Ancestors<\/em> because they don&#8217;t appear obvious in the records being searched.\u00a0 Oh, their names are there in the sources all right.\u00a0 They appear only after careful study and analysis.\u00a0 When you seem to have too many\u00a0 Johns or one extra James you simply cannot account for.<\/p>\n<p>My advice:\u00a0 Study these extra people who carry the same surnames as everyone else.\u00a0 Account for them on an annual basis; or six months if your records allow for it.\u00a0 Watch carefully what they are doing when.\u00a0 And where you find them.\u00a0 In the same cemetery?\u00a0 Listed in the militia roll? Serving as a witness on a deed or a will? Posting a voter&#8217;s poll for the same candidate?<\/p>\n<p>Two Johns are usually real and not a mistake of the compiler.\u00a0 Account for them all, your favorite genealogist, Arlene Eakle\u00a0\u00a0 http:\/\/arleneeakle.com<\/p>\n<p>PS\u00a0 Ribs healing, lawn burning up&#8211;at least its mowed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re neither right or wrong because people agree with you.\u00a0 You&#8217;re right because your facts and your reasoning are right.\u00a0 Warren Buffett If this statement resonates with you, you might enjoy Tap Dancing to Work:\u00a0 Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/19\/youre-right-because-your-facts-and-your-reasoning-are-right\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1175,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/1175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}