{"id":16770,"date":"2023-06-19T17:35:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T22:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=16770"},"modified":"2023-06-19T17:35:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T22:35:03","slug":"a-list-of-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/19\/a-list-of-options\/","title":{"rendered":"A List of Options"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m searching for an immigrant to the United States named Johan Antoine Willi who was born around 1801 in Switzerland or possibly Germany. That ends up being quite a few search variants to use when querying nationwide databases. To keep myself in line and not miss anything, I&#8217;ve made myself a list of search options for those sites that use a &#8220;*&#8221; as a wildcard:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Joh* Wil* born in Germany<\/li><li>Joh* Wil* born in Switzerland<\/li><li>Ant* Wil* born in Germany<\/li><li>Ant* Wil* born in Switzerland<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The drawback is that this approach catches many names are are not close to Willi&#8211;such as Williams, Willems, Wilhelm, etc. I could choose to use a Soundex or sound-based variant option on the last name as well. The key is that I have a list of all the search options that I will use so that I do not leave any search combinations out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m searching for an immigrant to the United States named Johan Antoine Willi who was born around 1801 in Switzerland or possibly Germany. That ends up being quite a few search variants to use when querying nationwide databases. To keep myself in line and not miss anything, I&#8217;ve made myself a list of search options [&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-16770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16770","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=16770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}