{"id":14237,"date":"2021-10-30T08:16:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T13:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=14237"},"modified":"2021-10-30T08:16:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T13:16:11","slug":"track-those-near-misses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/30\/track-those-near-misses\/","title":{"rendered":"Track those Near Misses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"961\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/zenf-passenger-database-results.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/zenf-passenger-database-results.jpg 961w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/zenf-passenger-database-results-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/zenf-passenger-database-results-768x320.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 961px) 100vw, 961px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I may never find the US passenger list entries for Wilhelmine (Trautvetter) Zenf and her children, but it will not be for lack of trying. It will also not be because I did not keep track of the entries that were eliminated from consideration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To keep myself from looking at the same entry over and over (easy to do if one is using several different websites to search passenger lists), I&#8217;ve made a chart that summarizes the entry and why I eliminated it as being Wilhelmine or her children. The reason is important. That way if I discover what I &#8220;know&#8221; about the family is wrong, I can easily review my previous conclusions and look again at those entries that may now match what I know. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional columns could be added to the chart used in the illustration, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>approximate year of birth<\/li><li>direct link to the image<\/li><li>note as to whether manifest image was downloaded to personal media<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Before investing too much time in a &#8220;what I looked at to find this&#8221; chart, think about what pieces of information you&#8217;d like to know about the items that were eliminated from consideration. All those pieces of data are easiest to collect when using the index and viewing the image&#8211;not afterwards. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I may never find the US passenger list entries for Wilhelmine (Trautvetter) Zenf and her children, but it will not be for lack of trying. It will also not be because I did not keep track of the entries that were eliminated from consideration. To keep myself from looking at the same entry over and [&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-14237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14237","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=14237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}