{"id":4636,"date":"2016-04-09T12:16:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T17:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4636"},"modified":"2016-04-09T12:16:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T17:16:29","slug":"before-searching-that-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/09\/before-searching-that-database\/","title":{"rendered":"Before Searching that Database"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before searching that &#8220;new&#8221; database, make certain you know:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>how complete the database is<\/li>\n<li>if it indexes just &#8220;main names&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>if it indexes\u00a0<em>every<\/em> name<\/li>\n<li>how searches actually work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Practice searching the database for names you know are there&#8211;this is always a good technique when first performing searches or if you can&#8217;t find a &#8220;Frequently Asked Page&#8221; or &#8220;More About&#8221; page that actually tells you something.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/before-searching.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4637\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4637\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/before-searching.jpg\" alt=\"before-searching\" width=\"626\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/before-searching.jpg 626w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/before-searching-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/before-searching-624x399.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before searching that &#8220;new&#8221; database, make certain you know: how complete the database is if it indexes just &#8220;main names&#8221; if it indexes\u00a0every name how searches actually work Practice searching the database for names you know are there&#8211;this is always a good technique when first performing searches or if you can&#8217;t find a &#8220;Frequently Asked [&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-4636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636","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=4636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}