Warning: Work In Progress I wanted to capture links.
In general, I have entered just enough of the familytree into an internet tool, to get the tool to give me information. Familysearch grew my tree using census records. :) FamilytreeDNA has pushed tree maintenance to MyHeritage.MyHeritage permitted me to upload a gedcom. Now it tells me of smart matches with familysearch and the tree based on the uploaded gedcom, which was scraped 4 up and 4 down from familysearch some time ago, but you have to pay. :( Ancestry records are payfor/library - I don't really recall setting it up.
I "inherited" some family papers, including adoption papers. Since somebody could not find adoption records, they documented the assumption that the name change was unofficial. Found it, attached to the mother in findagrave. I have sent the person an email (it bounced). I forwarded to the owner of the grave. I also put a flower on the grave with a note. Is this something I would think to look at? I've added a custom event in familysearch.
How do I cite this? Archive of <soandso>, some folder, some document. Privately held and partially imaged by me, <city, state>, <date>.
How do I augment folder and document? I hope I don't have to keep repeating the whole archive bit.
Familysearch
It does not seem to matter whether I enter it as a memory first and then link to it for a new source, or create a memory as a side effect of a source, I end up double documenting. While the memory is attached to the child and the new parrents, I don't think I actually added the source (thru the source box - link?) to the parents. Did I actually manage to connect it to the custom event? No help creating or linking like with the hints.
Do I really need to process each image associated with a source separately? I just included the cover letter and not all six pages. Do I need to collect all of the images before? will it accept a pdf of jpgs. Alternatively maybe I should just link to a... google doc?
Wikitree
I have forgotten how much typing is involved in adding a person. It probably always required proof - and I just said something like "personal memory" for my folks. In any case I looked at the resulting output. I did not like the resulting massaged text or the vague overview of sourcing I gave.
I modified the Biography to be a timeline of based on the list funtion with the year preceding the description. I added a <ref>book</ref> above and a more thorough book citation under sources. That is how I understood the documentation on the page. However I now had links between the footnote and Book but not the full citation. Also it did not recognize that multiple events might reference the same thing.
Looked up wiki footnotes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Footnotes
Adding a name= to a ref and using a full citation to the first usage gets the resulting page looking more like a want. It is rather clunky having the sources interwoven into the biography text.
Wikitree does not support the {{reflist}} or even <references></references> mentioned in the help above. :(
I have not even tried to include the image yet. Is that what free space is for? It seems free space is more for information that does not have a home in the tree. Have added images and pdfs.
Went back and added the image. Had to then add the parents and link them.
Not liking that I put the citation info in a comment.
It will accept a pdf. Can I save a google doc as a pdf? yes, but spacing is not not always what I intend in the doc.
https://www.wikitree.com/about/terms.html they are not as good as I thought.
It seems less heavy than familysearch. Is it worth having another place with info? Have started linking from wikitree to familysearch on an individual basis.
Aha!
I used free space to create a page for the source. I have used it to document provenance, and how to cite it. I am able to now add it to sources in the same manner I would a person, and like a person, I can scroll through the sources related to the attached to it. I also have figured out other ways of looking at the list. I can cite the document, point to a common source in the profile, and link to the source page. From the source page I can also see all the profiles that are linked to it. I still need to clean up from earlier attempts.
What they call memories in FamilySearch, I found as My WikiTree > My Images.
I have added the archive page to the My Nav Page
Have not been putting the folder names on the pictures. Probably a mistake.
Also starting to wonder about the scalability.
Do I want to have a free page per folder too?
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