{"id":2592,"date":"2009-10-20T11:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T11:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/20\/online-databases-should-be-used-as-clues"},"modified":"2009-10-20T11:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T11:19:00","slug":"online-databases-should-be-used-as-clues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/20\/online-databases-should-be-used-as-clues\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Databases Should be Used as Clues"},"content":{"rendered":"

What you find in someone’s online genealogy compilation should be used as a clue. There’s one tree on Ancestry.com (with over 20,000 names) that shows my great-grandparents with a child they never had.<\/p>\n

Some days I even wonder if it’s worth my time to contact someone whose database contains more than several thousand names.<\/p>\n

I’ve gotten some clues from the online trees, but do not use what you see there as anything other than a hint of a suggestion.<\/p>\n

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What you find in someone’s online genealogy compilation should be used as a clue. There’s one tree on Ancestry.com (with over 20,000 names) that shows my great-grandparents with a child they never had. Some days I even wonder if it’s worth my time to contact someone whose database contains more than several thousand names. I’ve […]<\/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-2592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592","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=2592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}