{"id":14417,"date":"2021-12-03T14:02:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T20:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=14417"},"modified":"2021-12-03T14:02:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T20:02:50","slug":"reasons-to-organize-your-data-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/03\/reasons-to-organize-your-data-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasons to Organize Your Data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are many reasons to organize your genealogical data, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>noticing&nbsp;<em><strong>clues<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/em>you did not notice before;<\/li><li>finding&nbsp;<em><strong>gaps<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/em>in your research;<\/li><li>making it easier for you to&nbsp;<em><strong>share<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/em>your research;<\/li><li><em><strong>reducing<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/em>the number of times you locate something you already have;<\/li><li>making it easier for you to&nbsp;<em><strong>publish<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/em>your information (if that\u2019s your goal);<\/li><li>making it easier for someone to&nbsp;<em><strong>preserve<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/em>your information after your death;<\/li><li>making it easier for someone looking at your information<em><strong>&nbsp;to help<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;you; and<\/li><li><em><strong>saving money<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;if you hire a professional\u2013they will have to organize it for you before they can help.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Help support&nbsp;<em>Genealogy Tip of the Day<\/em>&nbsp;by visiting any of the following sites:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Try a&nbsp;<em>GenealogyBank&nbsp;<\/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>&nbsp;to see what you find.<\/li><li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/click-100334863-13671424\">Newspapers.com<\/a><\/em><\/li><li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/prf.hn\/l\/K98DNOx\">AncestryDNA&nbsp;<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/prf.hn\/l\/K98DNOx\">offers<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/books-on-my-shelf\/\">Books on Michael\u2019s Genealogy Shelf<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many reasons to organize your genealogical data, including: noticing&nbsp;clues&nbsp;you did not notice before; finding&nbsp;gaps&nbsp;in your research; making it easier for you to&nbsp;share&nbsp;your research; reducing&nbsp;the number of times you locate something you already have; making it easier for you to&nbsp;publish&nbsp;your information (if that\u2019s your goal); making it easier for someone to&nbsp;preserve&nbsp;your information after your [&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-14417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14417","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=14417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}