To throw in my two cents. I have awful handwriting, and it does not improve when I get excited about a find. If I am unable to photocopy a page, and am forced to transcribe it, I immediately sit down when I get home and enter what information I have found into a word program. This way I am not forced to keep my awful notes, there is no memory loss about my find, and it will be readable for generations to come. I find this especially true for the notes that I make at the courthouse where only pencil is allowed, and time is short as we have limited assigned times to view records. All this information can then be entered into Clooz. I realize that it might appear as triple work, but as the previous message touched upon, if we are to share our finds with future generations, don't they deserve to be able to know exactly where we got our information?

Like Susan, I tend to write in a hurry. I still don't throw anything away, I save them and now am able to scan my original notes, I do that for my granddaughter so that she has a sample of my handwriting. The beauty of genealogy is that after we follow the standard rules we get to do just about anything we want to do with our research habits and they all work. There is no one way to do this and that's where Clooz and all of the other tools and programs we have to keep track of our finds. Speaking of triple work, when it comes to my documents I have them in toooooo many places (original, photocopy, image file, genealogy software and now recorded in Clooz) which seems excessive but what happened with me and I am sure most of you, is that I started with one type of program and added others over time. The biggest plus in this is the sharing, I can share my documents with anyone in any format which helps them and makes me feel that I have passed on the help that others have given me along the way. As it is said, I digress but my point is I don't know if I am a natural hoarder or a genealogist but I keep it all. Anita At 09:58 AM 7/3/01 -0500, Susan C. Fassbender wrote: >To throw in my two cents. I have awful handwriting, and it does not >improve when I get excited about a find. If I am unable to photocopy a >page, and am forced to transcribe it, I immediately sit down when I get >home and enter what information I have found into a word program. This way >I am not forced to keep my awful notes, there is no memory loss about my >find, and it will be readable for generations to come. I find this >especially true for the notes that I make at the courthouse where only >pencil is allowed, and time is short as we have limited assigned times to >view records. > >All this information can then be entered into Clooz. I realize that it >might appear as triple work, but as the previous message touched upon, if >we are to share our finds with future generations, don't they deserve to >be able to know exactly where we got our information? > > >============================== >Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 >Source for Family History Online. Go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB