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From: Donald Joseph Schulteis <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Number of Occurences
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 09:38:22 -0700 (PDT)




Donald Joseph Schulteis
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From: Donald Joseph Schulteis <>
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Sent: Saturday, August 8, 2009 11:09:02 PM
Subject: Re: [TMG] Number of Occurences


Genesis Project wrote:

>I have a lot of information in TMG from other people. Much of it is unverified which I want to verify.
>What I want to do is pick a location >then try to verify every event at that location then move onto
>the next location. Naturally I want to work as effective and productive as possible. What I want to
>do is get a count of the number of events at each location.
>Does anyone know an easy way to do this?

Since you are working with some other persons information, you can't be sure of much regarding how the information was entered, that is, its completeness.

Assume you will want to verify birth, marriage, death events.

Expect you have specific repository locations in mind, such as court houses. Court houses generally maintain vital records for a county. Lets say you plan on visiting the Washington County Court House.

If your data identifies the county, so much the better. But probably many events may not. So to cull your way down to a manageable number of records, do some "lets see what we have here" reports.

Lets assume Washington County resides in the state of Wisconsin and within Washington County there are "n" number of communities.

I would starting looking for vital events which have "community/Washington County/state" or "community/Washington County" or "Washington County/state" or "community/state".

I place a "{?}" in the county field in each birth/marriage/death event that I need to look up the appropriate vital record there.

Using the above exploratory runs, I would identify these records then place the {?} in the appropriate county field of the record. That field would then contain "Washington County {?}" or "Washington {?}"

A lot of work here!

Once I have completed this activity to my satisfaction, would then make a list-of-events or list-of-people run and identify all the birth tags or all the marriage tags or all the death tags which have "washington" and "?" in the county field. These become my pull lists that I used when visiting these court houses.

I put this information in the county field when I initially add the tag. So for me, I just make the runs. Once I have researched the information, say a birth record, I add the source, then cite it, and remove the "{?}" from the birth tag or the marriage tag or the death tag

That is how I work this.

Whenever I go to a court house, just make my birth run, my marriage run, and my death run, and I have my pick lists.

Just my way. Have done this for several thousand vital events, believe I am now leaning towards 3,500 found and another 1,000 not found.

For your consideration.

Donald

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