Early Christmas Present!
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
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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.
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My 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.
I actually don't print things. Not because I don't want to, but because I can't afford the ink to keep up. LOL. A blog friend of mine Tonia is doing a Notebook project that sounds cool but it's very ambitious! So the only paper copies I have are the records I send away for and what I've gathered from Grandpa.
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