{"id":7883,"date":"2018-01-25T17:29:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T23:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7883"},"modified":"2020-02-20T08:57:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T14:57:52","slug":"would-a-chart-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/25\/would-a-chart-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Would a Chart Help?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3979\" style=\"width: 291px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3979\" class=\"wp-image-3979\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ira-discrepancy-chart-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ira-discrepancy-chart-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ira-discrepancy-chart.jpg 463w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3979\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This place of birth discrepancy chart is not perfect&#8211;but it serves as an illustration.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Whenever information is confusing or overwhelming, I ask myself if there is some way that I can make a chart using the information that I know. Sometimes the final chart helps to reach a conclusion or decide where to go next.<\/p>\n<p>Other times just thinking about the chart and the process of creating it causes me to realize that there are records or details I do not have. That sometimes gets my research going.<\/p>\n<p>At the very least I have a summary of the information I have.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">Genealogy Tip of the Day&nbsp;<\/a><\/em>book is here.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">Learn more about it and get your own copy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019d like to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/subscribe\/\">get our genealogy tip daily in your email for free, add your address here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever information is confusing or overwhelming, I ask myself if there is some way that I can make a chart using the information that I know. Sometimes the final chart helps to reach a conclusion or decide where to go next. Other times just thinking about the chart and the process of creating it causes [&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-7883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7883","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=7883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}