{"id":8130,"date":"2018-12-11T16:45:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T16:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8130"},"modified":"2018-12-11T16:45:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T16:45:26","slug":"how-close-to-be-a-strong-match-at-familysearch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8130","title":{"rendered":"How Close to Be a Strong Match at FamilySearch?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-8132\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/strong-matches-michael-gerlach-details.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/strong-matches-michael-gerlach-details.jpg 341w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/strong-matches-michael-gerlach-details-167x300.jpg 167w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/>Understanding searches is crucial to troubleshooting them.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not always certain I understand how\u00a0<em>FamilySearch<\/em> distinguishes strong matches to a search from ones that are not strong. Sometimes I can see the distinction, but others times I cannot.\u00a0 It would seem to me that the following individuals are fairly similar:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Johann Michael Gerlach born in 1834 in Germany<\/li>\n<li>Johann Michael Gerlach born on 28 January 1833 in Weil im Dorf, Leonberg, Wurttemburg, Germany<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After all, I was searching for a Michael Gerlach born in 1839 as shown in the illustration. None of the &#8220;exact&#8221; boxes were checked. A little experimentation indicated that when the year of birth was set to 1838 (exact boxes still unchecked), both of the above matches were &#8220;strong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8131\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/strong-matches-michael-gerlach-1024x425.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/strong-matches-michael-gerlach-1024x425.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/strong-matches-michael-gerlach-300x124.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/strong-matches-michael-gerlach-768x319.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/strong-matches-michael-gerlach.jpg 1456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It seems that strong matches have to be within five years of the event put in the search box.<\/p>\n<p>At least for this search that only included one year of an event.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not certain how far the year of birth could be off for a non-strong matches. It pays to experiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding searches is crucial to troubleshooting them. I&#8217;m not always certain I understand how\u00a0FamilySearch distinguishes strong matches to a search from ones that are not strong. Sometimes I can see the distinction, but others times I cannot.\u00a0 It would seem to me that the following individuals are fairly similar: Johann Michael Gerlach born in 1834 [&hellip;]<\/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-8130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8130","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=8130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}