{"id":6853,"date":"2017-06-28T10:35:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T15:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6853"},"modified":"2019-02-06T07:23:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T13:23:03","slug":"reasons-to-organize-your-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/28\/reasons-to-organize-your-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasons to Organize Your Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6250\" style=\"width: 217px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6250\" class=\"wp-image-6250\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/string-finger-remember-251x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/string-finger-remember-251x300.jpg 251w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/string-finger-remember.jpg 418w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Do you need a reminder to organize your information?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There are many reasons to organize your genealogical data, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>noticing <em><strong>clues<\/strong> <\/em>you did not notice before;<\/li>\n<li>finding <em><strong>gaps<\/strong> <\/em>in your research;<\/li>\n<li>making it easier for you to <em><strong>share<\/strong> <\/em>your research;<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>reducing<\/strong> <\/em>the number of times you locate something you already have;<\/li>\n<li>making it easier for you to <em><strong>publish<\/strong> <\/em>your information (if that&#8217;s your goal);<\/li>\n<li>making it easier for someone to <em><strong>preserve<\/strong> <\/em>your information after your death;<\/li>\n<li>making it easier for someone looking at your information<em><strong> to help<\/strong><\/em> you; and<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>saving money<\/strong><\/em> if you hire a professional&#8211;they will have to organize it for you before they can help.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many reasons to organize your genealogical data, including: noticing clues you did not notice before; finding gaps in your research; making it easier for you to share your research; reducing the number of times you locate something you already have; making it easier for you to publish your information (if that&#8217;s your goal); [&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-6853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853","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=6853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}