{"id":4845,"date":"2017-05-28T12:59:56","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T12:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4845"},"modified":"2017-05-28T12:59:56","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T12:59:56","slug":"charting-my-1850-attempts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4845","title":{"rendered":"Charting My 1850 Attempts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charts are very popular genealogical research tools–even when you don’t find what you are looking for. It is organizing the search that is helpful.<\/p>\n

The problem was that I was having difficulty finding Peter Bieger and his wife Barbara in the 1850 census. In order to search for him effectively, I used several different websites that index the 1850 census. However, looking at the same entry over and over got a little tedious and was a waste of time.
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\nTo keep track, I started with a simple chart summarizing the location of each entry. I didn’t include links to the specific website’s image. What I was concerned about was the dwelling and the family number (along with the State, County, and Town\/City) as that would be on the census page regardless of what website I was using.<\/p>\n

I could easily add columns for this chart–the best one to add would be a comments column for “why” I rejected this person as being the Peter Bieger of interest. If you do not track why a certain person was rejected, it is difficult to go back and analyze again if assumptions change about the person of interest.<\/p>\n

I still have not found Peter in 1850, but the chart at least helps me track what I have done.<\/p>\n

Another approach would be to search for Barbara Bieger as well. It could be that the first name of Peter is spelled so incorrectly that I’m not locating it.<\/p>\n

Or Peter may have been enumerated with his middle name instead of his first name. Since I don’t know his middle name it makes it difficult to search for him using it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charts are very popular genealogical research tools–even when you don’t find what you are looking for. It is organizing the search that is helpful. The problem was that I was having difficulty finding Peter Bieger and his wife Barbara in the 1850 census. In order to search for him effectively, I used several different websites […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}