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From: "denise.light" <>
Subject: [YKS] Z is for Zero & Zilch
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 10:46:46 -0000

How do you keep track of all the places you have looked for information
about your family?

Do you do it from memory?

Do you keep a log?

Do you work in a systematic way or just as it comes?

Do you list all your results?
Do you list all your non-results?

I'm not very well organised, I tend to be haphazard, leaping from one source
to the next.
But what I do do is to make a note of where I have looked, even if there was
nothing to be found. It's easy to check that you have already looked at a
source if you actually have some information already noted. But if there was
nothing there for you, then unless you specifically say ' I have looked here
and there was nothing' you have nothing in your notes to say that a previous
search yielded nothing.

I am finding that very difficult to do on the internet - and as a result I
waste time!
I am not very good at logging my lookups on the internet.
But what I am finding is that for the internet it doesn't actually matter
too much, because I keep finding new material. The downside is that I
sometimes duplicate material already found, and of course I waste time
looking at sites that produced zilch the first time round.

Regards
Denise

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