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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: | Before you lay your head on the pillow, do nine things after a successful search: | ||
# [[Copying Sources|Photocopy the new source document]].<ref>G. David Dilts, "Organizing the Evidence Using Research Logs and PAF Source Notes," (outline for class taught at the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, 19 June 2006), 1.</ref> | |||
# Identify the source (type a footnote citation) on the ''front margin'' of the photocopy. | |||
# Write your own document filing number on the back of each photocopy. | |||
# Log the document number, and summarize events-people you found on all appropriate research logs.<ref>Elizabeth Shown Mills, concept taught by during Course 4 Advanced Methodology Evidence, Institute for Genealogical and Historical Research at Samford University, Birmingham, Ala., 12-17 June 2005.</ref> | |||
# Transfer every piece of '''''new''''' data from the source to the appropriate family groups. | |||
# 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. | |||
# Add a preliminary assessment of the data’s reliability in the footnote comment field.<ref>Elizabeth Shown Mills, "Genealogical Mindset Principles of Scholarship" (lecture in Course 4 Advanced Methodology Evidence, Institute for Genealogical and Historical Research at Samford University, Birmingham, Ala., 13 June 2005), 4M2.</ref> | |||
# Print the updated family group. | |||
# 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. | ||
== '''Research Logs''' == | == '''Research Logs''' == | ||