{"id":25711,"date":"2025-05-28T08:47:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T13:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=25711"},"modified":"2025-05-28T08:47:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T13:47:55","slug":"gaps-in-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/28\/gaps-in-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaps in Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many databases will be titled something like \u201cBlah Blah Records of Blah Blah: 1800-1900.\u201d Always try and determine just years are really included in the database. It could be that the \u201cBlah Blah Records of Blah Blah: 1800-1900\u201d actually only contains entries for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1800-1820<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1845<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1860-1880<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1890-1900<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the \u201cmore about,\u201d \u201cFAQ,\u201d or whatever they call it to determine just how complete the database is. It may include records between 1800 and 1900, but there also may be gaps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The records a person needs always seem to be in the gaps of time not included. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many databases will be titled something like \u201cBlah Blah Records of Blah Blah: 1800-1900.\u201d Always try and determine just years are really included in the database. It could be that the \u201cBlah Blah Records of Blah Blah: 1800-1900\u201d actually only contains entries for: Read the \u201cmore about,\u201d \u201cFAQ,\u201d or whatever they call it to determine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-25711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25711","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=25711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}