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Create a folder in your source box of ordinances that will be available at a certain date. See the instructions under "Uses for source box: Future Temple Ordinances/Wait List.<br> | Create a folder in your source box of ordinances that will be available at a certain date. See the instructions under "Uses for source box: Future Temple Ordinances/Wait List. | ||
Use a Google (or other online) calendar to record the date when a name will be available. Include the PID so you can find the person again. | |||
Write the relationship path on the back of the card, so you can remember who they are.<br> | |||
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Create another google doc that has links to sites you frequently use or that you don't have time to read now. Bookmarks would also do this. However google docs can be shared with other family members or even be made public to all users. | Create another google doc that has links to sites you frequently use or that you don't have time to read now. Bookmarks would also do this. However google docs can be shared with other family members or even be made public to all users. | ||
==== Organizing Notes While Doing Descendant Research ==== | |||
Keeping track of where you have done research and how you are related to the person you are looking at is always a challenge. First choose your favorite means of taking notes. You can use a notebook, a Word document in Dropbox, or a Google doc. Here are some ideas to help you record and organize what you find. do it when you are searching for descendants. | |||
Start with yourself at the Center of a fan chart. If the first few generations on your fan chart are still living, create a fan chart with the first deceased person on each line as the center person in a fan. There might be eight or more fan charts. Then you can keep track of where you are working in the tree. Use these charts to take notes. For overall tracking you could write notes like - check descent from 8 generations back. Then list the names of the couples you check and if they look fruitful or not. | |||
Now you can choose someone on one of the fan charts who was born in the early 1800s. Use Puzzilla to check for potential holes in the tree. When you choose a line to work down, click on a person, so you can see the path back to the ancestor as it is shown at the bottom left of the screen. Copy and paste that into word (or write it on the fan chart). Now you can write notes like “from John Doe's page look for an 1850 census - he is in Timbuctou, PA and there will be 3 new children to add to the family, etc”. Use FamilySearch to work down through their line to the most recently deceased generation (adding missing people, documenting with sources, fixing standardization errors, attaching any memories, or creating sources for items not available on FamilySearch and working through any duplicate merges. Put a “Watch” flag on people you "cleaned up", sourced, or added to the Tree, so that I'm notified of any changes.) Identify any available temple work along the way. If it is too early to request names for temple work, add the name and ID to a calendar in Google so that you can look at it again in a few years when it is available. Print a descendancy chart from FamilySearch, and highlight anyone on that list that you've reserved temple work for and I make a note as to their relationship to me. If I have printed any temple cards, I write that relationship on the back of the card (ex: 2C1R, or great-grand aunt, etc). | |||
Alternately, create a group in Relative Finder called "___'s Relatives." Add any deceased PID to and the Relative Finder software identifies the relationship for you. | |||
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