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? I've been doing this for only 18 years, and I have half of a filing drawer of records - plus 6 thin notebooks with printouts. And I have found at least three programs that, IN MY OPINION, are much better than PAF which was my first program. I was not trying to be confrontational even though it might sound that way. Hugh

On 12-19-2012 10:57, J. Hugh Sullivan wrote: > 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? I do a full transcription of anything that _might_ be useful, and if the source is handwritten or poor quality, I keep a scan of it. There is a copy embedded in my website and my local copy has a daily backup. All of these I can find when I need them. There is a lot of paper copies that I haven't thrown away (yet) but find them I cannot. -- Wes Groleau Guidelines for judging others: 1. Don't attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. 2. Don't attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by ignorance. 3. Don't attribute to ignorance that which can be adequately explained by misunderstanding. 4. Don't attribute to misunderstanding that which can be adequately explained by alcohol.