Well put! Printed it out and hung it on the wall. Vashti wrote: > LOOK UP GUIDELINES (Or how to get your name to the top of the stack) > > A *Lookup* is NOT Research, it is just what it says: a lookup. I (or anyone > else doing the lookup) am just your legs. You live far away or can not get > to the resource and the information I *MIGHT* be able to find will push you > a little ahead in *your* research. > > 1. FOCUS your search by ANALYZING your data. If I am forced to analyze your > data for you, I will put your name at the bottom of my list until I have > time to analyze it. > > Think: What do I WANT?? What EVENT? i.e., BIRTH, MARRIAGE, DEATH, other. > on WHO? Choose a family MEMBER, not an entire family. Which Family member > will give you the most information? What data is missing on that family member? > > Think: Where would *I* go to find this information if I were in a > genealogical library? NEWSPAPERS, BOOKS, CENSUS, INDIAN ARCHIVES, ETC. > > 2. *After* you have done the above, try to complete as much information as > you can. LOOKUP your city and see what COUNTY it is in. the Web site: > http://www.itools.com/research-it/ has a GEOGRAPHICAL section which will > take you to a searchable GAZETTEER run by the US Census Dept. > > 3. Be consise and organized in your Lookup request. Put SURNAMES in caps. > _______________________________________________________________________ > Here is a sample of a good Lookup request: > > SOURCE: Newspapers (or census/books/Indian archives) > > EVENT: obit (or other event) > > PERSON: SMITH, John Jacob Jingleheimer > > DATES: d. Jan 3, 1910 > > PLACE: Shawnee, OK, Pottawatamie county > > Other info that might help lookup person: > > Give details that you think might help here. Died in a fire, etc. for > Census lookups family details, wife, children would go here. > _________________________________________________________________________ > If you want a HARD COPY, then you will have to send me a SASE and 1 dollar in > the mail. My info is on the OKGenWeb site. > > I do pick up lookups in the list as I see something I might find for that > person, but if you send me a private email, with the words LOOKUP in the > subject line it will get my attention faster. > > In the next post I will show you what is on my lookup list right now. > > Nalora > > (another thing that gets you *permanent* status on my lookup list and will > make me go to the ends of the earth for you is if you have discovered you > are KIN to me, or are researching the same NAMES in the same area I am) >