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'''4. A commitment to [[Document AS YOU GO!|document AS YOU GO]]<nowiki>!</nowiki>'''<ref>Carol Harless, et. al., [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82725149 ''PAF Documentation Guidelines''] (N.p.: Silicon Valley PAF Users Group, 1993), 1 [FHL Book 005.3 H224].</ref> This means keeping your research logs and family group record up-to-date. Fill out the purpose (person and event you want) for each search, and the source data on the research log BEFORE you look at the source. Complete the research log by filling in the results and (if you find something) file number of the photocopy. Documenting AS YOU GO means if you find a new source you do these things before you lay your head on the pillow:<br> a. [[Copying Sources|Photocopy the new source document]].<br> b. [[Cite Your Sources (Source Footnotes)|Identify the source]] (footnote information) on the front of the photocopy.<br> c. Write your own document filing number on the back of each photocopy.<br> d. Log the document number, and summarize events-people you found on all appropriate [[Research Logs|logs]].<br> e. Transfer new family data from the source to appropriate family group records.<br> f. Enter new source footnotes [[Adding a Custom Event to a PAF Family Group Record|for '''''every''''' piece of data]] on a source, even if that event already has a footnote.<br> g. Add a preliminary assessment of the data and its reliability to each source footnote.<br> h. Print the updated family group record.<br> j. File the new family group and photocopy. | '''4. A commitment to [[Document AS YOU GO!|document AS YOU GO]]<nowiki>!</nowiki>'''<ref>Carol Harless, et. al., [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82725149 ''PAF Documentation Guidelines''] (N.p.: Silicon Valley PAF Users Group, 1993), 1 [FHL Book 005.3 H224].</ref> This means keeping your research logs and family group record up-to-date. Fill out the purpose (person and event you want) for each search, and the source data on the research log BEFORE you look at the source. Complete the research log by filling in the results and (if you find something) file number of the photocopy. Documenting AS YOU GO means if you find a new source you do these things before you lay your head on the pillow:<br> a. [[Copying Sources|Photocopy the new source document]].<br> b. [[Cite Your Sources (Source Footnotes)|Identify the source]] (footnote information) on the front of the photocopy.<br> c. Write your own document filing number on the back of each photocopy.<br> d. Log the document number, and summarize events-people you found on all appropriate [[Research Logs|logs]].<br> e. Transfer new family data from the source to appropriate family group records.<br> f. Enter new source footnotes [[Adding a Custom Event to a PAF Family Group Record|for '''''every''''' piece of data]] on a source, even if that event already has a footnote.<br> g. Add a preliminary assessment of the data and its reliability to each source footnote.<br> h. Print the updated family group record.<br> j. File the new family group and photocopy. | ||
'''5. Write out a thoughtful master research plan.'''<ref>Elizabeth Shown Mills, "Dissecting the Research Problem” (lecture in Course 4 Advanced Methodology | '''5. Write out a thoughtful master research plan.'''<ref>Elizabeth Shown Mills, "Dissecting the Research Problem” (lecture in Course 4 Advanced Methodology and Evidence, Institute for Genealogical and Historical Research at Samford University, Birmingham, Ala., 17 June 2005).</ref> Part of the overall goal should involve sharing your research on one or more families in a cluster. Within that goal work on one family at a time. Avoid skipping to a different family until work on this main family is nearly finished. | ||
*'''''Plan to research substitutes''''' for the missing records—research substitute '''''record types''''', substitute '''''jurisdictions''''', and substitute '''''repositories'''''. Look for family members in previous and subsequent (hopefully unburned) places they settled using the family group record as a guide. If you still are not finding what you need, study the relatives, and associates to determine who were most closely associated with your ancestor. Be prepared to research those people as substitute '''''kin or associates''''' to find clues about your ancestor. | *'''''Plan to research substitutes''''' for the missing records—research substitute '''''record types''''', substitute '''''jurisdictions''''', and substitute '''''repositories'''''. Look for family members in previous and subsequent (hopefully unburned) places they settled using the family group record as a guide. If you still are not finding what you need, study the relatives, and associates to determine who were most closely associated with your ancestor. Be prepared to research those people as substitute '''''kin or associates''''' to find clues about your ancestor. | ||