{"id":18268,"date":"2024-03-19T04:52:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T09:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=17814"},"modified":"2024-03-19T04:52:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T09:52:24","slug":"the-best-tree-checker-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/19\/the-best-tree-checker-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Tree Checker Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The best tree checker tool: your own common sense. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other things that significantly cut down on errors:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Not relying on transcriptions of others. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reading the actual record.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Using automatic import features. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Remembering that before 1880, relationships are not given in census records. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Remembering that census relationships are given in regard to head of household.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Not indicating a record gives details that it does not.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Assuming the compilations of others are correct. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Periodically manually reviewing your data. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Tree checkers can get the obvious errors, but they rarely catch it if you merged two first cousins of the same name into one person. Don&#8217;t expect the computer to do all the thinking for you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ancestry-tree.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ancestry-tree-1024x507.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17817\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ancestry-tree-1024x507.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ancestry-tree-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ancestry-tree-768x381.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ancestry-tree.jpg 1328w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best tree checker tool: your own common sense. Other things that significantly cut down on errors: Tree checkers can get the obvious errors, but they rarely catch it if you merged two first cousins of the same name into one person. Don&#8217;t expect the computer to do all the thinking for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18268","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\/153979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}