{"id":14273,"date":"2021-11-05T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=14273"},"modified":"2021-11-05T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T20:20:00","slug":"wolframalpha-com-for-genealogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/05\/wolframalpha-com-for-genealogy\/","title":{"rendered":"WolframAlpha.com for Genealogy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s really a math website, but it will do a variety of things that a genealogist might find helpful, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Calculate the days between two dates&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=1+january+1900+to+25+december+1965\">sample.<\/a><\/li><li>Specific number of years, months, and days before a certain date&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=35+years%2C+4+months%2C+and+3+days+before+1+August+1920\">sample.<\/a><\/li><li>Specific number of years, months, and days after a certain date&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=35+years%2C+4+months%2C+and+3+days+after+1+August+1920\">sample.<\/a><\/li><li>What day of week a date was on (and other historical facts about that date)&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=16+April+1932\">sample.<\/a><\/li><li>When a holiday was in a certain year&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=1930+easter\">sample<\/a>. <\/li><li>Popularity and other information about a first name&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=Michael\">sample<\/a>. Doesn&#8217;t work so well with unusual names. <\/li><li>Popularity and other information about a last name&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=Rucker\">sample<\/a>. Doesn&#8217;t work so well with unusual names.<\/li><li>Information on a town in a specific state&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=Carthage%2C+illinois\">sample<\/a>.<\/li><li>Geographic conversions&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=how+many+square+rod+in+an+acre\">sample<\/a>. (Google&#8217;s good at these too)<\/li><li>Cousinship questions&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=3rd+cousin\">sample<\/a>. Their chart isn&#8217;t the best, but it gives an idea. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=grandfather%27s+brother%27s+grandson\">Here&#8217;s a better question<\/a>. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There are other things you may find helpful on WolframAlpha.com as well&#8211;including math stuff!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Try a <em>GenealogyBank <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/gbnk\/?utm_source=9378&amp;utm_medium=gbhp_text&amp;utm_campaign=affil&amp;kbid=9378&amp;m=3\">Genealogy Search<\/a> to see what you find. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s really a math website, but it will do a variety of things that a genealogist might find helpful, including: Calculate the days between two dates&#8211;sample. Specific number of years, months, and days before a certain date&#8211;sample. Specific number of years, months, and days after a certain date&#8211;sample. What day of week a date was [&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-14273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14273","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=14273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}