Genealogy

As I make progress scanning in these old letters, I am trying to figure out how to best organize the letters for myself and others within the family My first thought is to organize just sequentially. However I am now wondering if what I see as family newsletters should be separated from the private hand written letters. And what of those few that came from a different family member? I have a bunch of files named by YYYYMMDDdesc. The pictures are on one drive and have Google docs with images and text transcriptions. I had hoped sorting these by name would put them in chronological order. Not sure why that failed. Second of all not all of the letters were dated - since a tilde seemed like a bad idea in a filename I used ish. I tried to guess based on content, or even what the letters before and after were. Sigh. A nice thing about the Google docs, is I have been sharing (comment) with the archive owner, who is appreciative of my effort. Having both images and text seems redundant. For hi

 I don't really remember tracking this before, but I found a report with cause of death  of a bunch of family. Conceptually, is it limited to cause of death, or should it include other information the doctor might be interested in and be more of a medical history? In the report I found the information was a short phrase. Might it be more detailed?  Technically it became a question of where should this information be entered, and how do I print it off? Attributes SSN Let me revisit the topic of Social Security Death Indexes (SSDI) as a use case. One of the person attributes available was Social Security Number (SSN). Entering this information there seemed obvious. Then came time to report it.  Attributes different than other information associated with people. By default, GRAMPS lists people by name and birth in the main view. An attribute is not something one might add.  Attributes is one of the things that can be displayed in the gramplet on a per person basis. It is not displayed

 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 describing the rel

 Back to that python script for exporting GEDCOM from familysearch mentioned in an earlier blog https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/GEDCOM GitHub Desktop After following a couple of links one sees it under source control with git. I have never used it with Windows before. https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git shows 3 options.  The last, desktop https://desktop.github.com/ , mentions CRLF handling and 64 bit installs. Run the GitHub Desktop installer. Approve permissions. log in. Bonus: my password manager even remembers my credentials from my last job. Luckily my personal email was in the list of for verification. Configure it for URL https://github.com/Linekio/getmyancestors and get errors. :( Failed to execute getStatus: ENOENT Git could not be found at the expected path: 'C:\Users\karen\AppData\Local\GitHubDesktop\app-2.6.3\resources\app\git\cmd\git.exe'. This might be a problem with how the application is packaged, so confirm this folder hasn't

What tools do I want to use to track the family tree? This will be an ongoing discussion on several topics. Clearly it is possible to track the tree with paper and pencil. For me a typewriter adds legibility. The computer makes it easy for your reports to reflect small changes, and look at the information in different ways. Given my background, computers is the way to go. After a family gathering with much note taking on the part of my father, I made my first attempt with lifelines running on linux, a free option. The ancestor charts at www.paffendorf.sj.ca.us/Family published in 1999 came from that effort.  Since them we have tried assorted tools including Ancestor, Reunion, and most recently familysearch.  We often transferred person and family information using gedcom. This could be awkward with id's varying, and knowing what information to keep from each side. I am unable to list my computers in detail. I can say my recent mac is unusable and I have not delved into my attempte