For online and microfilm items I make copies of the images and keep them on my computer, DVD, or thumb-drive. That way I can always go back and look again to see if I missed them. Then in my genealogy program I attached that image to the event with source information. Fran The Future is as Bright as the Promises of God On 13/11/2011 5:16 AM, Ruth Wilson wrote: > How do others record their research, especially your 'negative' research? > Years ago when it was all paper based and in record offices, I listed > what I had searched and with what result. It occurred to me that there > is so much now online (hooray!) that I'm not very good at doing this > anymore - it's so easy just to flick through a record set and move on. > There isn't anywhere dedicated to doing this in BK although I am > wondering if I ought to make the To do list work for me this way - as I > look through a record set, add it as a 'To do' and make a note what I > have looked at and with what result. (at the moment, I use 'To do' as an > aide-memoire for things to look for when I have the chance to get to a > particular record office or archive). > What do you do? > Ruth > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

In message <BLU0-SMTP40239E49D8C1B03A8D15996E3C30@phx.gbl>, Fran LaChance <singer.35@hotmail.com> writes: >For online and microfilm items I make copies of the images and keep >them on my computer, >DVD, or thumb-drive. That way I can always go back and look again to >see if I missed >them. Then in my genealogy program I attached that image to the event >with source >information. > >Fran [] Including negative ones (where it turns out to be an unrelated person)? I do that (I suspect most of us do) for items that _do_ relate to my ancestors/relatives. I do have a "!duds" directory, but that tends only to contain results from blind alleys where I have been under the impression that they were right and have subsequently determined otherwise; I don't, though I imagine I should, keep ones that I can see straight away aren't relevant. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf "Everyone has always regarded any usage but his own as either barbarous or pedantic." - Evelyn Waugh, quoted by Lynne Truss in "Eats, shoots & Leaves" 2003