{"id":8049,"date":"2018-03-02T10:13:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T16:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8049"},"modified":"2018-03-02T11:29:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T17:29:20","slug":"do-you-need-a-filter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/02\/do-you-need-a-filter\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Need A Filter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If a relative was &#8220;locally famous&#8221; or involved in a notorious event, they may appear in numerous newspaper items. Many of these contain repetitive information and may be more than you can reasonably look through. Consider filtering out search results that contain items related to the event or the activity the person was involved in.<\/p>\n<p>My relative&#8217;s late 1890 era activities generated newspaper accounts across the nation. I decided to filter out results that also contained his alias and\/or the name of his associate. There are drawbacks to filtering out results, but sometimes it is necessary. What filter works best will depend on your specific situation, but remember to keep track of your filter so that you\u00a0<em>know<\/em>\u00a0<em>what you removed from your search results<\/em>. That will allow you to decide later if you need to revise the filter. You won&#8217;t know if you don&#8217;t keep track.\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8050\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/filtered-out.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/filtered-out.jpg 700w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/filtered-out-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/filtered-out-624x446.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Check out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/1803GT\"><em>Newsbank&#8217;s offer\u00a0<\/em><\/a>for our subscribers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a relative was &#8220;locally famous&#8221; or involved in a notorious event, they may appear in numerous newspaper items. Many of these contain repetitive information and may be more than you can reasonably look through. Consider filtering out search results that contain items related to the event or the activity the person was involved in. [&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-8049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8049","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=8049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}