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The Common Room / Re: how methodical are you with your research?
« on: Sunday 24 August 14 07:24 BST (UK) »
Hi, My family want me to have it all organised, now that I have many folders, and a full filing cabinet of "stuff". When I took over my mother's files, much of it was "on the back of the envelope". However I have managed to recreate these by using Family Tree Maker and Ancestry.com.au, where I have two trees for different large branches of the family.
Some of Mother's material I reorganised into folders, with contents pages, and indexes, so that it is easier to go back and locate the documents, if they are not fully entered into the "Tree".
It also helps to focus the mind if you have somewhere to have articles published, which I now do, so that particular topics or people can be researched as much as I can, and then a sensible story told, of interest to others.
At the moment my cousins and I are researching the soldiers in the family tree from WWI, and this provides a base for getting these parts of the Tree into shape. This will be published in November, so having a date helps to keep us on track.
Good luck everyone. Enjoy the journey !
Some of Mother's material I reorganised into folders, with contents pages, and indexes, so that it is easier to go back and locate the documents, if they are not fully entered into the "Tree".
It also helps to focus the mind if you have somewhere to have articles published, which I now do, so that particular topics or people can be researched as much as I can, and then a sensible story told, of interest to others.
At the moment my cousins and I are researching the soldiers in the family tree from WWI, and this provides a base for getting these parts of the Tree into shape. This will be published in November, so having a date helps to keep us on track.
Good luck everyone. Enjoy the journey !