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From: "Wendy A. B. Whipple" <>
Subject: Re: [NEWGEN] a good place to start if your new
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:29:29 -0500
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AMEN! If I had a nickel for every time I had to go back and figure out
where some bit of information had come from, I would be a wealthy
woman!

Now I save and print out emails I have gotten from various connections.
I print webpages out when I can, so that the URL and date prints on the
top of the page. If I can't print the whole page, I make sure that the
URL gets footnoted, or I copy/paste it into a Word document with the
URL and print *that* out. All of that paper then gets filed by surname
in my file cabinet (one drawer for my line, one drawer for hubby's
line). Then I note in my genealogy program with footnotes that a
printed copy of the information exists in those files. Oh, if only I'd
done it from the start! I think if I had only a single piece of advice
to give to beginning genealogists, that would be it!

Wendy in IL


On Oct 15, 2004, at 2:26 PM, faye parker wrote:

> to me the biggest mistake I made as a newbie was *blush* not
> documenting resources. Came back later had tons of info and no idea
> where had found it *blush*

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