{"id":9953,"date":"2019-04-24T18:30:09","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T23:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9953"},"modified":"2019-04-24T18:30:09","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T23:30:09","slug":"four-step-research-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/24\/four-step-research-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Step Research Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4102 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/problem-solving-e1496679457798.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"391\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/problem-solving-e1496679457798.jpg 463w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/problem-solving-e1496679457798-266x300.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s several ways to organize your research process. Different ones work for different people.<\/p>\n<p>Some of us use a modified version of Polya&#8217;s 4-step problem-solving process:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Understand<\/li>\n<li>Plan<\/li>\n<li>Execute<\/li>\n<li>Evaluate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Problems need to be stated clearly and succinctly (usually involving one person and one key event in their life).<\/p>\n<p>Understanding involves knowing all relevant terms, how to access all records in all jurisdictions, etc. That&#8217;s not always an easy task, but it&#8217;s key to the entire process. Planning what to do comes next, Executing the plan (and tracking it) follows before the evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>And then you go back to understanding&#8211;because either you solved the problem or you have more problems to solve.<\/p>\n<p>Those with an interest in Polya (he was a mathematician) can read his book &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2GDhyP4\">How to Solve It<\/a>&#8221; which focuses on the problem-solving process as it applies to math problems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/069116407X\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=069116407X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=gentipoftheda-20&amp;linkId=e290a5a9d7e52a02cff788534a68b627\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ASIN=069116407X&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;WS=1&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;tag=gentipoftheda-20\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=gentipoftheda-20&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=069116407X\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s several ways to organize your research process. Different ones work for different people. Some of us use a modified version of Polya&#8217;s 4-step problem-solving process: Understand Plan Execute Evaluate Problems need to be stated clearly and succinctly (usually involving one person and one key event in their life). Understanding involves knowing all relevant terms, [&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-9953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9953","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=9953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}