Stella: I found your comments to Vince very helpful. However, what do you mean when you say "classify in Clooz as Stray... and Unrel"? How do you go about classifying them in Clooz? By using "Stray" and "Unrel" as the Alternate ID #? Thanks, Jenni > ----- Original Message ----- > Subject: RE: [Clooz] Clooz for a surname organization > Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 21:58:01 -0700 > From: "Stella Howlett" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > Hello Vince, > > My genealogical prog. automatically assigns a unique ID number to > everyone I put in it. Clooz allows the use of these numbers which > is enormously helpful. I can also print out a 'people' list from my > gen prog. which includes the ID numbers and vlital dates so that > when I'm entering doc. details into Clooz, I can tell immediately > without a lot of digging which of four John Wrights or five > Frederick Trouts it might concern. > > For people who are in documents such as census returns who are not > in my gen prog. I classify in Clooz as Stray if I haven't yet proved > that the person is mine and Unrel (for unrelated) if I know they > never will be included in my family tree. That eliminates the need > for adding an additional ID number.. > > What do others do, I wonder? > > Stella Howlett > BC, Canada > > > Hi - - I, too, have a puzzlement about how to record data > > for folks who are > > not in my line. I have 4 data bases with lots of folks > > in them. Without > > going into lots of research I do not know which Joseph > > Correll, or Magdalena > > Correll to which I should attach a document. Share > > brainstorms with me, > > too. Vince Correll, Fresno, CA > > [PS- I have well over 100 documents recorded in Clooz for > > my family and find > > it MOST helpful. VIC