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juri_anne

Early Christmas Present!

Dec 01, 2010 16:10

Lots of things to be happy about today! GoS is doing an advent with some of their top creators for the whole month of December {both Sims 2 and Sims 3}! xie_belle is going to try and do the same thing in her journal! The December Theme is something I've been wanting to do, but now that I have a theme to contribute, I'm going to finally finish what I had ( Read more... )

project: genealogy, real life: cleaning, game: sims 2, family: chris

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leenyland December 2 2010, 18:54:02 UTC

haha, I LOVE RootsMagic. I definitely think it's the better program. I just found the Shareable CD option and I'm going to make a few copies of my tree for my Aunts this year!

BAH, He's just not a genealogist. Only genealogy realize how worth it Ancestry is. Really for the censuses alone. Not to mention the SSDI. I've got Kentucky and Ohio death records there. I could go on and on. ^.^

juri_anne December 2 2010, 19:06:37 UTC

I love RootsMagic too. :) I have the free version, and I figured that was enough, but as I go, there are things I'd like to do that the free version just doesn't let me. I saw the sale and thought, why not! Especially since it comes with a how-to book that I'm sure I'll be using a lot. :)

Hmm...I think I've got family that lived in Ohio, so I'm sure those death records would come in handy! *pouts* He better let me get it!

leenyland December 2 2010, 19:08:49 UTC

I felt that way too! I didn't get the book and there's things I'm only just finding out now. LOL. So if you find anything cool, let me know!

It's only an index on Ancestry, which is still helpful but if they died between 1908 and 1953 FamilySearch has the images.

juri_anne December 2 2010, 19:16:48 UTC

I'm so full of questions! :D Because, honestly, you're the only person I know that can appreciate what we're doing. :)

I think I may have asked this before, but how do you store your documents? Say, you find an index on Ancestry or FamilySearch. What do you do with it? Print it to have a hard copy? Save it to your computer? Input the information as a guess and try to find some other hard information to support it?

leenyland December 2 2010, 19:36:34 UTC

haha, I love just talking about it with someone and not getting the standard, "That's nice."

On Ancestry.com if it's questionable I save it to my Shoebox. Which lets you just save records. That's what I do for something I'm not comfortable putting into my program.

If it's as close as I can get without being 100% I go ahead and enter it as a source. The biggest tip is making sure to get all the information from the page as you can at the time you find it. You might never find it again. LOL. If it has an image, I always save the image. Except for censuses. I really just save my main line, and make sure I cite everything for everyone else. Otherwise I'd have a hard drive full of census images.

Here's what my FTM file source list looks like. I'm still playing with RootsMagic and the sources.
http://pics.livejournal.com/leenyland/pic/000434ea
http://pics.livejournal.com/leenyland/pic/00044a7rMy new thing is labeling the source directly with the site it's from Ancestry, FS for FamilySearch. That way I'm sure where it came from ( ... )

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