{"id":14562,"date":"2022-01-03T14:50:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T20:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=14562"},"modified":"2022-01-03T15:06:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T21:06:57","slug":"problem-solving-summarized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/03\/problem-solving-summarized\/","title":{"rendered":"Problem-Solving Summarized"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The problem-solving approach developed by George Polya has been used in math courses for years. With a little adaptation, genealogists can use it as well. The four steps can be summarized as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"463\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/problem-solving-tip.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/problem-solving-tip.jpg 463w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/problem-solving-tip-266x300.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Understand<\/strong>-learn all about your relative, the time period, the location, and the records<\/li><li><strong>Plan<\/strong>&#8211;decide what to search and how to search it<\/li><li><strong>Execute<\/strong>&#8211;do it&#8230;and track what you do<\/li><li><strong>Evaluate<\/strong>&#8211;analyze what has been found, integrate it into what is already known. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you solved the problem, then there are new ones to solve. If you didn&#8217;t solve it, go back to the understand step. That one requires the most work, particularly when research in a new area or time period is being undertaken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/11\/webinar-found-it-now-what-and-problem-solving-released\/\">Order my problem-solving webinar. <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/conta.cc\/3mAdp2L\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem-solving approach developed by George Polya has been used in math courses for years. With a little adaptation, genealogists can use it as well. The four steps can be summarized as: Understand-learn all about your relative, the time period, the location, and the records Plan&#8211;decide what to search and how to search it Execute&#8211;do [&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-14562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14562","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=14562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}