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From: Donald Joseph Schulteis <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] What reports should I print?
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 12:05:14 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <20051202154858.GMOJ6445.ispmxmta09-srv.alltel.net@Daddyscomputer>


Linda,

An answer is pretty much determined by how you have coded your data.

Assuming you coded city, county, and state in your BDMB entries, I run a "list of people" report filtering on location and select birth entries in one report, death entries in another, burial entries in the last. I run a "list of events" report for marriages. Depending upon how the institution organizes its information, you might sort the reports on date, on name, or on whatever to have your information ordered as the institution has its records organized.

For the "list of people reports," I include the parents names.

Have an actual form I use for each type event and using my word processor software, insert it after each name line. For each identified individual I would then have:

on line one

individuals name, event date, other individuals information important to me

on line two

name of father and name of mother

lines three to six, field name and fill in the line for the information I will be acquiring.
For births there would be a field and fill in line for time of day, doctor, hospital name, location among others.

Do the same for death and marriages.

Don't do burials but the methodology applies equally there to.

If you will be visiting the locations periodically, you will need some way to identify what you have looked up on previous trips so you don't do it a second time.

I generally do my research at county court houses. If I wish to look up a birth record, I place a {?} after the county name in the birth event's county field. Once I complete the research, I remove the {?} from the county field. My filter then includes the "?" selection.

So, if I should be visiting th eWashington County court house in Wisocnsin, I would filter state contains "WISC", county contains "WASHIN", and county contains "?".

This works for me.

As the process is mostly manual (inserting), it is not unusual for it to take me two to three days to create these list before my annual research trip.

Donald Schulteis


linda <> wrote:
I'm still in the data entry phase of TMG - transferring 20+ years of paper
records is a daunting task. I'm leaving tomorrow on vacation to an area
where ancestors were from. I know I won't have much research time - it's a
family trip - but I'm hoping to visit the library and a cemetery or two.

I don't have a laptop or handheld computer so I need to bring some paper
research notes along to refresh my memory. What report would best to show
people with their BMD (if known) who were in a particular city/town at some
point in their life? I'm assuming a LOP but not sure how to get just the
people I need.

Thanks!

Linda (MacCormick) Towne





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