{"id":9697,"date":"2019-02-27T08:55:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T14:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9697"},"modified":"2019-02-27T08:55:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T14:55:11","slug":"when-its-not-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/27\/when-its-not-there\/","title":{"rendered":"When It&#8217;s Not There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8469\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9698 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cannot-find.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"406\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cannot-find.jpg 839w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cannot-find-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cannot-find-768x456.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/><\/a>When someone does not come up in an index, here are some things to think about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>have you considered all alternate spellings?<\/li>\n<li>have you double checked what you put in the search boxes (right names in right boxes, no boxes with information from &#8220;old searches,&#8221; etc.)?<\/li>\n<li>could the person be in the record under a different last name (step-father, new husband, etc.)?<\/li>\n<li>have you used wildcards to expand your searches?<\/li>\n<li>do you know the index is complete or is it in &#8220;process?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>are you certain the person really should be in the record?<\/li>\n<li>do you know how the original records were organized and preserved?<\/li>\n<li>have you performed a manual search of the records?<\/li>\n<li>have you asked someone else for a suggestion?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When someone does not come up in an index, here are some things to think about: have you considered all alternate spellings? have you double checked what you put in the search boxes (right names in right boxes, no boxes with information from &#8220;old searches,&#8221; etc.)? could the person be in the record under a [&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-9697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9697","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=9697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}