Dianna, I would be interested in your forms if you would email me a copy. I could also post them on website for others if you won't mind. Laurie KodiakPooh wrote: > > After having been researching for quite a few years, I feel very strongly > about the photocopy vs. abstract/extract issue! > > You will NEVER need to return to your source if you have a photocopy of it!! > If a question arises, you can refer to the copy. I have done this over and > over...finding new information (that didn't apply previously) several years > after collecting the photocopy and filing it. > > Once, when we visited some courthouses on a trip we took, we were allowed > into the vault with the original records. These STILL are not filmed...but > I was able to get photocopies of court & land records I could not return to > later. AND, I've found that later when I returned to look at these copies > new info came to light. > > Regarding research logs, etc.: > > When I took my course from BYU on Family History, I learned many good > things--especially how to keep track of research. > > I have an index sheet in the front of each Family Archive File folder (one > file for each surname). > > There is also a research summary sheet (that is numbered) that corresponds > with the numbered entries on the index. This summary sheet is filled out in > DETAIL for each source, listing where it's found, and all info relating to > that source, with a space for notes. Any additional notes or copies are > attached (stapled) to the back of this sheet and it is filed numerically > within the file. > > Meanwhile, the index sheet has basic info regarding the source, ie. "1850 > census, Haga" and the date & WHERE I was conducting the research. As I > research, write letters, make phone calls, etc. I enter the > source--completed with address, etc. on this index, along with a number. > (Start at 1 for each file) I write the detailed info on the summary sheet > that is attached to the photocopies, etc. > > Some of my files have grown to two and three file folders...but to access > any one piece of info that is file, all that is needed is to scan the index > of the family's folder. > > If anyone is interested, I can attempt to scan in these two forms. > > Dianna in Kodiak aka Granny Pooh > kpooh@ptialaska.net > > Visit Granny Pooh's Genealogy Site--one of the > LARGEST online sites of old family photos! > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/3542/ > > ==== GEN-ROOTERS Mailing List ==== > Visit my Homepage for Gen-Rooters-L at > http://members.aol.com/AZDEE/index.html > > listowner questions to AZDEE@aol.com