Turns out, Evidentia is where most of this process will happen. Initally, I was going to use OneNote as my catch-all for my research - a way to keep everything in order, and also a way to analyze all the records I find and a way to write up my conclusions in a proof report. I will be making a blog post showing step-by-step how I use this piece of software. That way, when I move onto the next ancestor in that line, all of the claims have been entered, and I'll just have to create a new citation for that ancestor.
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So if I'm working on a census records for my grandmother, I'll also be cataloging claims for every member of that household.
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My plan is to touch each record only once. Once these first two things are done, I can then analyze the records and write my conclusion. Then I create the citation and catalogue all the claims that I can find on that record. For any source/record I find, I create a new source to document. This is the first step for any record I find on the ancestor I'm currently working on.
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Here is a brief outline of my original plan on how to use these three pieces of software in my research. I started a brand new tree in Family Tree Maker called LusbySporie Family Tree (2016), and I also started a new database in Evidentia called LusbySporie_2016. My plan is to use Evidendia, Microsoft OneNote, and Family Tree Maker for all of my research and building my family tree. One last thing to wrap up January 2016 is a change in my research process (there have been many since I started this do-over in January 2015). I also receive quite a few genealogy-related newsletters. There are quite a few blogs that I follow via email. I also want to share with you the types of folders I made up, especially for my emails relating to genealogy. If I decide that I want to keep it, then I'll move it over to a folder, or make a folder for it. I'm also proud to report that as of today, I only have 36 items in my inbox that I need to review and decided if it can be read and deleted, or if I want to keep it for future reference. Here's the view of my cleaned out Outlook Inbox as of Jan 09, 2016. I soon discovered that the Rules working is really a hit or miss proposition.Īfter I cleaned out my email, I decided to take a pic as it had never been that cleared out before. So what I did, was sit down to my computer and read each and ever email to determine which ones I wanted to keep and I also made up some rules within Outlook so that certain emails would automatically go into a specific folder for reading later. I don't usually read the emails in depth.
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Doing it this way did help in I knew that whatever emails were still there were ones that I wanted to keep for one reason or another. Now that I have a smartphone, I can and do (at times) check my email that way throughout the day. But still, I managed to have over 2,000 emails in my inbox.īecause of my work schedule, I don't always turn on my computer during the week. A while ago, I sat down with the thought of organizing my emails, and I made up folders and subfolders for emails that I wanted to save. I must have had over 2,000 emails sitting in my inbox. I will admit right here and now that my email box was a total and complete disaster. Most of the paper in that stack is locale research, and some papers that I've inherited from family that did some research in the past.Īnother task I took care of this month, which I think falls under preparing to research was to get a handle on my inbox in Outlook. Here is a picture of all of my research papers that I do have in a pile next to my computer desk. Since I started my journey into researching my ancestors in 2010, I really didn't have a lot of papers because I decided to keep things digitally. As I mentioned in my last blog post, all of my previous research has already been set aside because I was a participant in Genealogy Do-Over that took place in 2015.