Genealogy

When I started on Familysearch, hints were addictive, causing me to add information to people, and people to the tree. About a month ago I realized I had a lot of hints that I had not processed.  (To look at them start at your top page, scroll down to record hints and select view all; or from the same page look at the second menu list row across the top and select hints.) (Another reminder that is becoming annoying with the unfinished attachments - especially when what they want you to attach is “UNKNOWN”.) I started try to knock off a backlog of family hints and remembered why I had not  done some of them: ugly merges, not wanting to step on other people’s toes having attached to their trees, … However I tended to forget what I started looking at, and the truly new ones were getting buried. So I need a research log where I can easily see if I have looked at something before. Goldie May (GM), a chrome extension with familysearch access, seems to fit the bill. I heard about it ...

I have been re-entering huge amounts of data from a report into GRAMPS recently. I'm struggling to document my sources this time. The repository and the source for the report seemed easy enough  - and single point modifiable if they need tweaking later. I've been putting a citation in for each family and person with a page number. Trying to use that information is a failure. Turns out garbage in garbage out. Revisited this demonstration of pulling in a family search record: Gramps repositories, sources, citations https://youtu.be/oY6nn3Eobb4 In addition to a page number it was repeating the name and event. This seems horribly tedious despite differentiating the citation. I'm watching another video https://youtu.be/Y5hijkAF6eE . You can create your citation, Drag it to your clipboard,  and  drag it to families, individuals, and events. That makes it much easier. I think that leaves me with at least as many references (I am willing to take on events now), but fewer citatio...

 A family member (or maybe more as the text conversation continues) has been helping me update her branch of the family tree by text message! Thanks! In the past I have scribbled on some descendant tree print out (or a napkin) and then updated the tree online and sent a copy. This still happens. Having lost everything with a computer failure, I am starting from scratch. (Yes, I am ignoring familysearch for now. A great many are recent live offspring. Although I have also asked about inlaws I am likely to run into at gatherings. I am keeping the local copy separate as I may try to mangle the local familysearch data.) I have created a new GRAMPS tree for her branch.  The thing that makes today's effort different is trying to record the source information. Looked at  gedcom - Citing a conversation with a living relative - Genealogy & Family History Stack Exchange  for an idea of how to do this. As suggested I added a repository, Personal Collection, and a Source des...