Ruth, I created an Internet Research Log which you can do in your word processor, or a spreadsheet, or a database. The Log contains columns for Date, URL, Seeking, Success, and Zip (Dud). You can keep this log/file open while you are searching and easily copy/paste the URL into the appropriate space and make your notes on what you found, or didn't find. I just put an X in the Zip column if I didn't find anything. That said, I am not very good at keeping it up, but when I do, it helps. I have never tried to connect it to BK via the Media tab, but that might work, too. Good Luck, Diane On 11/13/2011 4:16 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 <4EBFE028.2020208@satx.rr.com>, Diane Scannell <dscannell@satx.rr.com> writes: >Ruth, I created an Internet Research Log which you can do in your word >processor, or a spreadsheet, or a database. The Log contains columns [] >I have never tried to connect it to BK via the Media tab, but that might >work, too. [] You'd only be able to connect it to one person's record (or, several, but one at a time). -- 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

Thanks for your thoughts on this. I think the idea of a spreadsheet is quite a useful one particularly for something like an elusive baptism where you might search many parishes and cover a range of dates for each, or if you are looking for all occurrences of a specific surname. The things I am conscious of not recording are things like online probate indexes and WW1 medal cards where I occasionally have a browse for names of interest - I don't always log that I looked at these indexes and did not find Joseph Bloggs. As I said, I use 'to do' where I am filling in some information and think "Next time I'm in xxx I'll check for yyyy". I must start adding some 'to do's as I'm doing them! Ruth On 13/11/2011 15:20, Diane Scannell wrote: > Ruth, I created an Internet Research Log which you can do in your word > processor, or a spreadsheet, or a database. The Log contains columns > for Date, URL, Seeking, Success, and Zip (Dud). You can keep this > log/file open while you are searching and easily copy/paste the URL into > the appropriate space and make your notes on what you found, or didn't > find. I just put an X in the Zip column if I didn't find anything. > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >