{"id":4551,"date":"2016-03-21T16:23:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T21:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4551"},"modified":"2016-03-21T16:23:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T21:23:28","slug":"charting-your-search-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/21\/charting-your-search-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Charting Your Search Options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Typing names in search boxes willy-nilly works if you find people relatively quickly. When you don&#8217;t, it&#8217;s time to stop.<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/organize-searches.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4552\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4552 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/organize-searches-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"organize-searches\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/organize-searches-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/organize-searches-768x556.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/organize-searches-624x452.jpg 624w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/organize-searches.jpg 829w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Think about what you know about the person, how his name could be spelled, how he could have answered the questions, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Make a chart of all the ways that you could search for that person in whatever database it is. Don&#8217;t rely on your memory. You will forget.<\/p>\n<p>The chart will keep you organized and if you can&#8217;t find the person, it will make it easier to trouble shoot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>For more about <a href=\"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=2311\">organizing your online research<\/a>, check out my webinar on this very topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Typing names in search boxes willy-nilly works if you find people relatively quickly. When you don&#8217;t, it&#8217;s time to stop. Think about what you know about the person, how his name could be spelled, how he could have answered the questions, etc. Make a chart of all the ways that you could search for that [&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-4551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551","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=4551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}