Genealogy

As I recreate my digital tree,  I am trying to be better about sources.  You have heard of my ongoing struggle with sources and citations. This has expanded to grouping into repositories and chunking source text.  Familysearch only being collaborative on dead people draws my attention to verifying people are dead. I find myself looking at cemetery records and   obituaries   . Reporting I like printouts as backups. I also find them easier to review.   (Did I fail to mention the amount of missing bits I found, as I went back to update citations?  Wouldn't it be nice it I could print out a report like I just entered for side by side comparison?)  Clearly I like writing on my printouts too. My recent pain is after typing a lot, is that I have yet to find an easy way to print it out from gramps. The descendant tree is not cited. The sources report is just a dump of some bits: sources and citations, but not repositories or notes (links, academic ci...

JCP used to correspond with lots of the family. He'd then write a weekly letter with the highlights of each person/family he'd heard from. He'd then scatter the letter across the family. My earliest memories had him typing  with carbon copies -- only so many copies would fit and each one would be lighter than the previous one. We'd pass the copy between the members of our branch of the family. At some  point he changed to mimeograph. I can remember the smell. We still passed them, but the quality became more even. Was the passing an excuse to get together? ;) Or did we just see each other more? (ignoring the pandemic.) I do not have any copies of the Tattler. I think it would be nice to have a family archive of them. I suspect it would be nice to have images and a text transcriptions. Building an index would be more of a challenge. Could we start it and then automate? What should it include? people, crops, milestones, and?  A down and dirty solution could be to  use...