{"id":39044,"date":"2026-11-02T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=39044"},"modified":"2026-11-02T09:00:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T15:00:44","slug":"tracking-near-misses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/02\/tracking-near-misses\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking Near Misses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"961\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/zenf-passenger-database-results.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14238\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2.4025;width:961px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/zenf-passenger-database-results.jpg 961w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/zenf-passenger-database-results-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/zenf-passenger-database-results-768x320.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 961px) 100vw, 961px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I may never find the US passenger list entries for Wilhelmine (Trautvetter) Zenf and her children, but it will not be for lack of trying. It will also not be because I did not keep track of the entries that were eliminated from consideration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To keep myself from looking at the same entry over and over (easy to do if one is using several different websites to search passenger lists), I\u2019ve made a chart that summarizes the entry and why I eliminated it as being Wilhelmine or her children. The reason is important. That way if I discover what I \u201cknow\u201d about the family is wrong, I can easily review my previous conclusions and look again at those entries that may now match what I know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additional columns could be added to the chart used in the illustration, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>approximate year of birth<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>direct link to the image<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>note as to whether manifest image was downloaded to personal media<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before investing too much time in a \u201cwhat I looked at to find this\u201d chart, think about what pieces of information you\u2019d like to know about the items that were eliminated from consideration. All those pieces of data are easiest to collect when using the index and viewing the image\u2013not afterwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I may never find the US passenger list entries for Wilhelmine (Trautvetter) Zenf and her children, but it will not be for lack of trying. It will also not be because I did not keep track of the entries that were eliminated from consideration. To keep myself from looking at the same entry over and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39044","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=39044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}