Article View: soc.genealogy.computing
Article #63Re: Keeping track of paper files
From: Steve Hayes
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:57
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:57
27 lines
3041 bytes
3041 bytes
On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:08:55 -0700, Don Kirkman <donsgenes@charter.net> wrote: >>But I generally try to keep unrelated people out of my main genealogy file, >>and I don't want to create person records for them there. But if I eventually >>find proof of relationship, I want to be able to find the documents where I've >>seen their names before. > >That bears some resemblance to how I like to work. Recently I traced >one line back into Prussia, but ended with over a century of extracted >church records for the same surname from IGI that I can't (yet) relate >to the known ancestors. They are obviously a very large and very >interrelated bunch of people in a small geographical area, so I've put >them aside into a separate file of shrubs and bushes, no trees, from >which I can pull them up with their connections if I ever discover a >link to my knowns. I do that quite a lot -- in some places record all baptism, marriage, and burial and census records with surnames of interest, whether I know they're related or not. Sometimes they later prove to be related, and at other times I know who to exclude. -- Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Web: http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/stevesig.htm Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<phka56l17d4i282mr3ja68qtglrp50rhur@4ax.com>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!85.214.198.2.MISMATCH!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mailReferences:
<bi9v461d9dmf68ffou43tb53e2uj70lp6r@4ax.com> <i2qdvv$r2l$1@news.eternal-september.org> <4c50febf$0$24908$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <8bcr36FrfhU1@mid.individual.net> <hsWdnYyeJ889zMzRnZ2dnUVZ8oKdnZ2d@brightview.co.uk> <8bd319Fb3mU1@mid.individual.net> <urd3565pvkavtd67sr4l9v0rv6q4de392f@4ax.com> <8be5d2FtvaU1@mid.individual.net> <6sg9569eiojistqp5nvchh7isdqjku8jsg@4ax.com> <r53a56dkj70fdh75t0nadhs5rdpe12qmem@4ax.com>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Thread: 105a76,64b6ead7ca355cf1 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Thread: 114405,64b6ead7ca355cf1 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gid48cd7b239e,gidd5cb46ee2e,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!85.214.198.2.MISMATCH!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.computing,free.uk.genealogy Subject: Re: Keeping track of paper files Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2010 12:57:00 +0200 Organization: Khanya Publications Lines: 27 Message-ID: <phka56l17d4i282mr3ja68qtglrp50rhur@4ax.com> References: <bi9v461d9dmf68ffou43tb53e2uj70lp6r@4ax.com> <i2qdvv$r2l$1@news.eternal-september.org> <4c50febf$0$24908$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <8bcr36FrfhU1@mid.individual.net> <hsWdnYyeJ889zMzRnZ2dnUVZ8oKdnZ2d@brightview.co.uk> <8bd319Fb3mU1@mid.individual.net> <urd3565pvkavtd67sr4l9v0rv6q4de392f@4ax.com> <8be5d2FtvaU1@mid.individual.net> <6sg9569eiojistqp5nvchh7isdqjku8jsg@4ax.com> <r53a56dkj70fdh75t0nadhs5rdpe12qmem@4ax.com> Reply-To: hayesstw@yahoo.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 10:52:52 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="lBOKkrLUZPQ3roEIB0l/gw"; logging-data="10702"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+vseAhkarFsuQkbMjiMEFh4+rg0/3/nTw=" X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 2.0/32.652 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 100731-1, 2010-07-31), Outbound message Cancel-Lock: sha1:RyKPWX8MZHSec5gj1OMJuxpraes=