>What kind of personal file number should I use for books or articles in >journals that I own? I won't be making copies of them. But I would like >to reference everyone mentioned in these sources. > >For example, I have a book called "Old Families of Louisiana". It is >broken down into sections by family name. Because so many people are >mentioned in this book, I would like to break down my Clooz document >groupings by these sections. > >So, the source would be "Old Families of Louisiana". And let's say one of >the sections I'm referencing is "Watts". Any suggestions as to what I >should use for the Document number? Book-Watts? Book-OFL-Watts? (I >thought I should perhaps start the document number with "Book" because it >is filed with my books.) > >Has anyone else run into something like this? > > > >============================== >Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp >Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! Liz Kelley Kerstens, CGRS Ancestor Detective, LLC http://www.ancestordetective.com Creator of Clooz, http://www.clooz.com Editor of Genealogical Computing, http://www.ancestry.com

I have not had exactly this problem, but I am using CLOOZ to tracking some research that I am performing. Basically, I wanted to record the information from different references, among them books concerning the research SURNAMES. Since this was a unique project, I just assigned a reference number to the book. This worked fine for the book, but when I wanted to link the SURNAMES to the reference, I found I needed to add each SURNAME to the people list. As I continued my research, I extracted some information from a SOUNDEX file, and realized that if I used the census forms, I would also have to add the individual names. Since this was more than I desired to do, I will be using the correspondence document category, as it seems to fit my needs. Maybe a generic extract document category should be added. Not sure. Anyway, in answer to your question, you could use anything you wanted to, but I would not include the speccific surname. Your reference number should refer to the entire source, not portions of the source. That is what the linking to specific name provides. Don McNeeley -----Original Message----- From: Elizabeth Kelley Kerstens, CGRS [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 5:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Fwd: Document number for books >What kind of personal file number should I use for books or articles in >journals that I own? I won't be making copies of them. But I would like >to reference everyone mentioned in these sources. > >For example, I have a book called "Old Families of Louisiana". It is >broken down into sections by family name. Because so many people are >mentioned in this book, I would like to break down my Clooz document >groupings by these sections. > >So, the source would be "Old Families of Louisiana". And let's say one of >the sections I'm referencing is "Watts". Any suggestions as to what I >should use for the Document number? Book-Watts? Book-OFL-Watts? (I >thought I should perhaps start the document number with "Book" because it >is filed with my books.) > >Has anyone else run into something like this? > > > >============================== >Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp >Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! Liz Kelley Kerstens, CGRS Ancestor Detective, LLC http://www.ancestordetective.com Creator of Clooz, http://www.clooz.com Editor of Genealogical Computing, http://www.ancestry.com ============================== Add as many as 10 Good Years To Your Life If you know how to reduce these risks. http://www.thirdage.com/health/wecare/hearthealth/index.html