{"id":10054,"date":"2019-05-27T08:28:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T13:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10054"},"modified":"2019-05-27T16:38:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T21:38:01","slug":"search-without-last-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/27\/search-without-last-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Search Without Last Names"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s not always possible or practical, but sometimes databases can be searched without using the last name. Other information will need to be provided&#8211;first name, year of event, location, and other information in order to obtain a manageable number of search results. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But depending upon what else you know and how large the database, a search without the last name may be a good search tool when the last name is extremely difficult to read on the original record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s up to the researcher to completely and carefully analyze the located record to determine if  is a match for the person of interest.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not always possible or practical, but sometimes databases can be searched without using the last name. Other information will need to be provided&#8211;first name, year of event, location, and other information in order to obtain a manageable number of search results. But depending upon what else you know and how large the database, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}