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== '''What it means to document AS YOU GO''' ==
== '''What it means to document AS YOU GO''' ==


Before you lay your head on the pillow, do nine things after a successful search:<br />1. [[Copying Sources|Photocopy the new source document]].(3)<br />2. Identify the source (type a footnote citation) on the ''front margin'' of the photocopy.<br />3. Write your own document filing number on the back of each photocopy.<br />4. Log the document number, and summarize events-people you found on all appropriate research logs.(4)<br />5. Transfer every piece of '''''new''''' data from the source to the appropriate family groups.<br />6. Enter new [[Cite Your Sources (Source Footnotes)|source footnotes]] for '''''every''''' piece of data on the source, even if that event already has a footnote on the family group.<br />7. Add a preliminary assessment of the data’s reliability in the footnote comment field.(5)<br />8. Print the updated family group.<br />9. File the updated family group, and source photocopy.
Before you lay your head on the pillow, do nine things after a successful search:<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; 1. [[Copying Sources|Photocopy the new source document]].(3)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; 2. Identify the source (type a footnote citation) on the ''front margin'' of the photocopy.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; 3. Write your own document filing number on the back of each photocopy.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; 4. Log the document number, and summarize events-people you found on all appropriate research logs.(4)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; 5. Transfer every piece of '''''new''''' data from the source to the appropriate family groups.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; 6. Enter new [[Cite Your Sources (Source Footnotes)|source footnotes]] for '''''every''''' piece of data on the source, even if that event already has a footnote on the family group.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; 7. Add a preliminary assessment of the data’s reliability in the footnote comment field.(5)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; 8. Print the updated family group.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; 9. File the updated family group, and source photocopy.


Document AS YOU GO means you never start another search until you have finished the paperwork, and finished filing the previous search results.
Document AS YOU GO means you never start another search until you have finished the paperwork, and finished filing the previous search results.
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