Document Project
I am
continuing my latest project, auditing my sources and documents. What a project
of opposites! I have loved looking over my original documents and evaluating
the evidence, however, what an overwhelming lofty goal! Every source that I
"properly" and uniformly source brings great joy of uniformity and
professionalism. I am very grateful for the tiny, albeit crazy voice in my head
and from my WWCC English 1010 professor, about citing sources. For every source
and document I have, I recorded all the information needed for a properly cited
source. Forever grateful for that foundation I laid in the beginning of my
research.
Big shout out
to Roots Magic for their wonderful and useful sources and citation available in
their software program. I took the time
to watch the online video about sources and citations. It was extremely helpful and has enabled me
to understand the proper way to utilize their citation features.
I am reminded
of the week I took off from research and organized all of my documents. I wanted to research, but realized early in
my genealogy what value is a document or source if you cannot locate it when you
need it. The Family History Library
offered a class on organization and I modeled my organization after the class
suggestions. I have never regretted that
huge amount of time spend organizing and I keep reminding myself of the reward
for this project; locating any document and source in a matter of seconds.
Several years
ago, I took all of my documents, two laptops, and two scanners and set them up
at my daughter’s home. My daughter and grandchildren
helped me scan all of the documents I obtained before the invention of digital
copies. That was a big project too!
As, I keep my
eye on the goal and end product, I persevere...and look forward to writing
again...
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