{"id":8256,"date":"2021-11-08T02:08:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T02:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/?p=8256"},"modified":"2021-11-08T02:08:29","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T02:08:29","slug":"new-research-goal-learn-the-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/new-research-goal-learn-the-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"New Research Goal: Learn the Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are new to genealogy research, there is a new Choice in The Family History Guide you&#8217;ll want to check out. It&#8217;s titled &#8220;Learn the Basics,&#8221; and it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/project-4-discover02.html#a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Choice A<\/a> in Goal 2 of Project 4: Discover. (It&#8217;s also available in Goal 2 for the research Projects in Ancestry, MyHeritage, and Findmypast.)<\/p>\n<p>This Goal is brief and simple in its focus: it points you to helpful articles and and video with important tips and pointers on how to successfully start your research journey. Here&#8217;s a screen shot of the steps in the Choice:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8268\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/basic-research.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"883\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/basic-research.png 883w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/basic-research-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/basic-research-768x446.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 883px) 100vw, 883px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other Changes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Goal 2 was previously titled &#8220;Identify a Line.&#8221; Now Choice B in Goal 2 is for using family group sheets to identify a line to do research on, and Choice C is about asking the kinds of questions that will drive your research going forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are new to genealogy research, there is a new Choice in The Family History Guide you&#8217;ll want to check out. It&#8217;s titled &#8220;Learn the Basics,&#8221; and it&#8217;s Choice A in Goal 2 of Project 4: Discover. (It&#8217;s also available in Goal 2 for the research Projects in Ancestry, MyHeritage, and Findmypast.) This Goal is brief and simple in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[356,67,11],"tags":[242],"class_list":["post-8256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-u-s-research","category-trackers","tag-getting-started"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8256"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8270,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8256\/revisions\/8270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}