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From: "Donna Edwards" <>
Subject: Re: [OHBELMON-L] Failures
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 15:29:28 -0500
References: <004501c23d4d$8d7ab300$d56b0cd8@intelos.net> <000f01c23d63$36244b00$943f1841@columbus.rr.com> <007201c23d62$59ea1e80$d56b0cd8@intelos.net>


OK folks - am completely LOST! Attempted to print out the form found on
Ancestry.com.

Print to file??

HELP!
- Donna

Attempted to print out the form
----- Original Message -----
From: Sandra Ferguson <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 11:00 AM
Subject: [OHBELMON-L] Failures


> My process has always been, as follows..... when I visit someplace
and
> find information I seek I always, if possible, make a hard copy on the
> library, etc copy machine. I then come home, enter the information into
my
> computer genealogical
> program and file the hard copy in the loose leaf notebook on that
particular
> family (I keep one for each family I research). However, this process
does
> NOT address our failures, the places we went and DIDN'T find anything.
So,
> my suggestion really concerns more these failures, than the successes,
that
> speak for themselves (we copied the record and have it in our notebook).
> However, when I look in my Morgan notebook and do NOT see a death
> certificate for Catharine, does this mean that there wasn't one, or that I
> didn't look? See what I mean? No where have I noted where I looked and
for
> what, and failed, every bit as important (and in a way MORE important), so
I
> am doomed to wonder, or probably repeat things , often long distance....a
> pain in the neck that could have been avoided if I'd only jotted down
those
> "failures" somewhere....like "checked and no death certificate for
Catherine
> Morgan at the Belmont co. courthouse."
> Sandra
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Saundra Saboley <>
> To: Sandra Ferguson <>; <>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 12:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [OHBELMON-L] tip to beginners
>
>
> > Fantastic advise, Sandra. Wish some one had told me that 4 or 5 years
> > ago...... it would have saved me so much time. I also find that my
memory
> > doesn't improve with age.
> > If you go to http://www.ancestry.com/save/charts/researchcal.htm
> > you can print off a number of different forms which are very helpful in
> > tracking where you have been and what you have done. It also includes
> census
> > forms.
> > I also found electronic spread sheets on line at :
> > http://censustools.com/census/download.html
> > that you can download and fill in your census information via your
> > computer..... making for a much neater document. The site owner does ask
> for
> > a donation if you find it helpful.
> > Also document your sources including the address for where you found
your
> > document. I finally started doing this and can more readily find an
> address
> > when I need it for someone else later . It is especially helpful when
you
> > are searching several different states.
> >
> > Sandy
> > in Columbus,OH
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Sandra Ferguson" <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 9:31 AM
> > Subject: [OHBELMON-L] tip to beginners
> >
> >
> > > Here's a tip for those of you just getting started with this
> wonderful
> > > avocation of genealogy; keep a running list for either each line or
each
> > > individual, and include what you have looked for and where. For
> > > example....' checked Belmont Co courthouse for Geo. Morgan's will'....
> (of
> > > course, if you had found the will, this wouldn't be necessary, but
often
> > we
> > > check for things and they aren't there) Here's what then
> happens......in
> > > the beginning you think you'll remember everything,what you looked for
> > (and
> > > where), if you found it, etc..... but what actually happens is that at
> > some
> > > time you'll stop actively researching certain families, when you reach
> > that
> > > inevitable point where you can't find anything else. Then, months or
> even
> > > years later you'll decide to give it another go, just in case.
However,
> > you
> > > won't be able to remember every place you checked in the past, and so
> will
> > > begin useless duplication. If only I had known this 'way back
> when'...I'd
> > > have put a piece of paper with each family compilation of data, that
> > listed
> > > if I looked for a will for George at the courthouse, that I checked
the
> > 1820
> > > census for John Reed, etc.....what a help that would be. I'm a very
> > > careful, methodical researcher, so I'm sure I did check for that
> > > will.........but I can't be positive, so am doomed to do it again!
> > >
> Sandra
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>

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