{"id":37,"date":"2011-11-18T04:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T04:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/4-reasons-to-convert-your-genealogy-research-into-writing\/"},"modified":"2013-07-06T16:23:45","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T21:23:45","slug":"4-reasons-to-convert-your-genealogy-research-into-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/4-reasons-to-convert-your-genealogy-research-into-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Reasons to Convert Your Genealogy Research Into Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/-S2sTjHllhAw\/TsXfP8-K1eI\/AAAAAAAAF98\/nBWrXFVThwA\/MP900316880%25255B4%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"177\" height=\"118\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/>Putting pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) is a daunting task for some people.\u00a0 But taking the time to turn your genealogy research into something more than facts in a database can be very rewarding and beneficial to your research endeavor.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here are four reasons you should convert your genealogy research into writing:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Organize &amp; Analyze<\/strong> \u2013 Writing out your genealogy research provides a means to organize your research in order to perform a thorough analysis.\u00a0 In doing so, you are able to find gaps in your research (from missing records or events, to having used only secondary sources) and recognize when something doesn\u2019t fit (a child born after a mother died, or a melding of two people into one, for example).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Prove It<\/strong> \u2013 Once you\u2019re satisfied with your analysis and conclusions, you can document them as proof arguments\/summaries to defend your research.\u00a0 Proof arguments also help you keep track of your conclusions and why you reached them in the first place.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Solve Another Problem<\/strong> \u2013 Sometimes when you write about the research process or records you used for one person, you may realize the same strategies can be applied to solve other mysteries in your family tree.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tell a Story<\/strong> \u2013 Let\u2019s face it, our non-genealogy family and friends won\u2019t get much from a database file, family group sheet, or pedigree chart.\u00a0 But putting your research in written form, with some narrative and social context\u2026now that they can sink their teeth into.\u00a0 Plus, it helps you as the researcher see your family as more than just names and dates.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putting pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) is a daunting task for some people.\u00a0 But taking the time to turn your genealogy research into something more than facts in a database can be very rewarding and beneficial to your research endeavor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-writing-your-way-to-the-past","category-writing-your-way-to-the-past","cat-18-id","cat-17-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-B","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3274,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/3274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}