On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:57:05 GMT, Eagle@bellsouth.net (J. Hugh Sullivan) wrote: >On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:01:29 +0200, Steve Hayes ><hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote: > >>I've spent quite a lot of time today entering information into the >>Research Data Filer program that I got with PAF some 20 years ago. >> >>I thought of ways that it could be improved, and wished for an update, but >>there is still no other program that does what it does as well as it does. >> >> >>Could Clooz 4 be that program? I hope so! > >Why do you keep every paper? I record the info and source in my >program and discard the paper. I hasten to add I don't have originals. >I'm not in the business of doing the research of others for them. I'll >give them fact and source - if they want to check, have at it. I have >every fact and source that I have found for VA and NC recorded by >State year and county on about 30 computer pages, single spaced. Why >do I need to pack rat the source they were copied from? Well, we all have different methods and different sources. I don't keep every paper, but I do keep quite a lot of them, like, for example, the people who were in a house on the night of a census. I enter the ones I know are related in my genealogy program, but not the others. But years later I may find something that makes sense of that person who didn't seem to fit, and then I can lay hands on my original notes from the census, and check it up. >And I have found at least three programs that, IN MY OPINION, are much >better than PAF which was my first program. PAF was my second program, and I got it when one had to pay for it, $45 I think it was. But I didn't want PAF, I wanted the RDF that came with it. But this is not about lineage-linked programs, of which there are at least a dozen to choose from, and we really don't need any more. What we lack is programs like the RDF. -- Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk

On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:25:50 +0200, Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote: >On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:57:05 GMT, Eagle@bellsouth.net (J. Hugh Sullivan) >wrote: > >>On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:01:29 +0200, Steve Hayes >><hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote: >> >>>I've spent quite a lot of time today entering information into the >>>Research Data Filer program that I got with PAF some 20 years ago. >>> >>>I thought of ways that it could be improved, and wished for an update, but >>>there is still no other program that does what it does as well as it does. >>> >>> >>>Could Clooz 4 be that program? I hope so! >> >>Why do you keep every paper? I record the info and source in my >>program and discard the paper. I hasten to add I don't have originals. >>I'm not in the business of doing the research of others for them. I'll >>give them fact and source - if they want to check, have at it. I have >>every fact and source that I have found for VA and NC recorded by >>State year and county on about 30 computer pages, single spaced. Why >>do I need to pack rat the source they were copied from? > >Well, we all have different methods and different sources. I don't keep every >paper, but I do keep quite a lot of them, like, for example, the people who >were in a house on the night of a census. I enter the ones I know are related >in my genealogy program, but not the others. But years later I may find >something that makes sense of that person who didn't seem to fit, and then I >can lay hands on my original notes from the census, and check it up. I have the census for every Sullivan (various spellings) for VA (those that exist) and NC through 1840. I have AL from 1850 through 1940 for Sullivans in Tuscaloosa Co. I have them all on computer so I never have to look them up online. I used both ancestry and Heritage Quest to compile them. I have the censuses for my mother's and my wife's line on computer also. I'm just an anti-packrat and that certainly gives others problems. Hugh