From a SmartMatch from My Heritage into Family Tree Maker. The steps I took to capture an Obituary from a newspaper article that was found in my online tree at My Heritage [ www.myheritage.com ] and input that information, including the text of the obituary, the data, image and a citation, and putting that into my FTM2014 file.
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Copyright © 2014 by H R Worthington
Showing posts with label Obituary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Obituary. Show all posts
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012
GenDetective and Family Tree Maker
I don't normally Blog about software besides Family Tree Maker, PC and Mac versions, but I had the opportunity to fill in as host for Monday's with Myrt webinar series. The Webinar on November 26th, we discussed what websites the participants used for their Online Research. We used a Case Study as an illustration. Remembering that Not Everything is Online, the December 3rd Webinar was to discuss the "next steps", to prepare for a visit to a repository or location and get our feet on the ground for follow up research.
I have posted a couple of articles on how I have used the existing reports in Family Tree Maker that I have used for such a visit.
This time, I wanted to use a 3rd Party software program to help with this research trip. I have had, and have used GenDetective in the past for some of the reports, but thought GenDetective would really help with this project.
I'll NOT go into the details, yet, on how I used GenDetective for this project, but I want to point out that I had to re-think how I handle a couple of situations to make GenDetective work for me. This has to do with my data entry, and NOT what GenDetective does or doesn't do. In fact, GenDetective did exactly what I wanted.
There is a Blog Post on the GenDetective with some more details about this.
The issues that I have identified so far 1) in the way I handle Obituaries, and 2) Immigration information from Census Records.
I have considered Obituaries as a Source, up until now, but didn't really have a way to "track" what Obituaries I had or didn't have. If I found one, I recorded it as a Source, and cited any Facts that I was able to take from that Obituary. So, really, I have not idea what I have or don't have. Running a Search Progress report in GenDetective reflected that I didn't have ANY Obituaries. So, to resolve that, I am just adding an Obituary Fact for each Obituary that I have. This is easy to do, as I just go into my Source Workspace, looking at the Newspaper Sources, and find the Obituary and link that obituary to a Obituary Fact for the person who is the subject of the Obituary.
For this Case Study, I had a number of people in the file who had Immigration data on Census Records. When I ran the Search Progress report, there was no indication that I had any data.
In most of my Census Record data, I use the Web Search and Web Merge feature. I have a list of Facts that I want to collect based on the year of the Census Record. I have blogged about that here as well.
When I look at a Census Record that Information is there, but wasn't recorded clearly enough for GenDetective. Again, a User input issue.
Here is an Example of a 1920 Census Record:
Column 13 shows that the Immigration date for the first person was 1890 and the second was 1900. Important information.
A rotated view of the same record.
When the Web Merge feature is used, the "Arrival" Fact is used. Not very helpful, as to what "Arrival" means. Family Tree Maker has a built in Immigration Fact. GenDetective is "looking" for that Fact / Event. to report that there is an Immigration Date for the person.
So my clean up is to Locate all Arrival Facts, Add an Immigration Fact for each person that has an Arrival Fact, and Copy and Paste the Citation from Arrival to Immigration, the delete the Arrival Fact for that person.
Now the Source Progress has that data in the report.
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Copyright © 2012 by H R Worthington
I have posted a couple of articles on how I have used the existing reports in Family Tree Maker that I have used for such a visit.
This time, I wanted to use a 3rd Party software program to help with this research trip. I have had, and have used GenDetective in the past for some of the reports, but thought GenDetective would really help with this project.
I'll NOT go into the details, yet, on how I used GenDetective for this project, but I want to point out that I had to re-think how I handle a couple of situations to make GenDetective work for me. This has to do with my data entry, and NOT what GenDetective does or doesn't do. In fact, GenDetective did exactly what I wanted.
There is a Blog Post on the GenDetective with some more details about this.
The issues that I have identified so far 1) in the way I handle Obituaries, and 2) Immigration information from Census Records.
I have considered Obituaries as a Source, up until now, but didn't really have a way to "track" what Obituaries I had or didn't have. If I found one, I recorded it as a Source, and cited any Facts that I was able to take from that Obituary. So, really, I have not idea what I have or don't have. Running a Search Progress report in GenDetective reflected that I didn't have ANY Obituaries. So, to resolve that, I am just adding an Obituary Fact for each Obituary that I have. This is easy to do, as I just go into my Source Workspace, looking at the Newspaper Sources, and find the Obituary and link that obituary to a Obituary Fact for the person who is the subject of the Obituary.
For this Case Study, I had a number of people in the file who had Immigration data on Census Records. When I ran the Search Progress report, there was no indication that I had any data.
In most of my Census Record data, I use the Web Search and Web Merge feature. I have a list of Facts that I want to collect based on the year of the Census Record. I have blogged about that here as well.
When I look at a Census Record that Information is there, but wasn't recorded clearly enough for GenDetective. Again, a User input issue.
Here is an Example of a 1920 Census Record:
Column 13 shows that the Immigration date for the first person was 1890 and the second was 1900. Important information.
A rotated view of the same record.
When the Web Merge feature is used, the "Arrival" Fact is used. Not very helpful, as to what "Arrival" means. Family Tree Maker has a built in Immigration Fact. GenDetective is "looking" for that Fact / Event. to report that there is an Immigration Date for the person.
So my clean up is to Locate all Arrival Facts, Add an Immigration Fact for each person that has an Arrival Fact, and Copy and Paste the Citation from Arrival to Immigration, the delete the Arrival Fact for that person.
Now the Source Progress has that data in the report.
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Copyright © 2012 by H R Worthington
Sunday, November 11, 2012
FTMM-2 - Research Log, just a thought
Many of us struggle with how to keep a research log. I have posted about this before:
You can search this blog "research log" and will find additional entries.
I am working on a project in Family Tree Maker for the Mac (FTMM-2) and thought I would try something else. This project involves collaboration with a colleague of mine. This file, is part of a presentation, so my involvement with this file will end following the presentation. Also, this person is a PC user. So, how do I SHARE the Research Log. Understanding that some fields and data in FTMM-2 may not be transferable and is not in an Ancestry Member Tree, where this colleague is viewing the file.
What I have been doing, is sending a PDF file, of my Task List (To Do List) sharing what I have researched, need to research, or have completed.
For this project, I thought I would use the High Priority, as the highest or first items to be researched, such as Census Records.
As I go along, I may remember that I need to "look something else up", for a person, so I put that in the Medium Priority. When I complete a Task, I change that to the Lowest Priority.
What I also did, was to create a To Do List, based on the Shaky Leaf Hints. I put all of them in the Medium Category EXCEPT for hints that are from Ancestry Member Trees. I put them in the Lowest Priority. I won't be working on any of them, but my colleague may, in the future want to follow up on those connections.
It dawned on my, why not make this To Do List my Research Log. Where I searched, what I found or didn't find.
As an example, I was working on looking for Obituaries. So, I want to create a lost of those I want to look for obituaries and what I found. I'll start by generating a Custom List of only people who I have Death Information on. That would be the Date and Location.
Go to the Publish Workspace, People Collection, Custom Report. Once the Custom Report starts to generate, then clicked on Selected Individuals. Selecting the Death Fact, where the Place Is Not Blank.
The generated a list of 22 people who have some Death Information.
Note: this is a small file, specifically for this project
The report that is generated, included the Death Fact, (date, place, description), Burial Fact, and for another purpose, the Find-A-Grave fact that I created. Another clue here, is to have the Female Name include the Married Name. An option in the Items to Include menu and selecting the Name Fact at the bottom of the Fact window.
With this report I can then begin my research.
My first place to look for Obituaries is on GenealogyBank.com. I added Genealogy Bank to my Favorite place to search in the Web Search Workspace. I have blogged about how to do that here.
One of the reasons for doing my searching from within FTMM-2 (and FTM2012) is the ease to looking at more details for that Person, but looking in the Lower Left Window or going to the People Workspace. I also am able to use the Web Clipping Option and Merging the data from this non-Ancestry.com website.
Below is the mini-Pedigree Navigation bar, with my person selected. Some of the details for that person is in the Lower Left, as you can see, and I have Selected Genealogy Bank in the Web Search workspace.
Using Genealogy Bank searches I can work with the data, or note that there isn't an Obituary for that person.
In the People Workspace, Person Tab, Task Menu, I make an entry like:
Obituary on GenealogyBank
or
Obituary on GenealogyBank
Not on 1977 - today - 11 Nov 2012
The first example, I would make it Low Priority and Completed.
The second example, I would make it Low Priority but NOT completed.
The Date is important so that at some time in the future, we might want to go back to do another search on Genealogy Bank.
The reason for doing all of this, in this fashion (for me at least), is that My Research Log is a complete listing in the Plan Workspace. It can be filtered, sorted, etc. For Example: the To Do List for Obituaries from today.
The first couple of entries are completed, others were looked for but not found (including the date).
ff I were to sort by the Person's Name, I can see how I have searched, what I need to search, and what I found or didn't found. That is also available in the People Workspace, Person View, Task Tab.
This is working for me. but may be a different approach for others.
Copyright © 2012 by H R Worthington
You can search this blog "research log" and will find additional entries.
I am working on a project in Family Tree Maker for the Mac (FTMM-2) and thought I would try something else. This project involves collaboration with a colleague of mine. This file, is part of a presentation, so my involvement with this file will end following the presentation. Also, this person is a PC user. So, how do I SHARE the Research Log. Understanding that some fields and data in FTMM-2 may not be transferable and is not in an Ancestry Member Tree, where this colleague is viewing the file.
What I have been doing, is sending a PDF file, of my Task List (To Do List) sharing what I have researched, need to research, or have completed.
For this project, I thought I would use the High Priority, as the highest or first items to be researched, such as Census Records.
As I go along, I may remember that I need to "look something else up", for a person, so I put that in the Medium Priority. When I complete a Task, I change that to the Lowest Priority.
What I also did, was to create a To Do List, based on the Shaky Leaf Hints. I put all of them in the Medium Category EXCEPT for hints that are from Ancestry Member Trees. I put them in the Lowest Priority. I won't be working on any of them, but my colleague may, in the future want to follow up on those connections.
It dawned on my, why not make this To Do List my Research Log. Where I searched, what I found or didn't find.
As an example, I was working on looking for Obituaries. So, I want to create a lost of those I want to look for obituaries and what I found. I'll start by generating a Custom List of only people who I have Death Information on. That would be the Date and Location.
Go to the Publish Workspace, People Collection, Custom Report. Once the Custom Report starts to generate, then clicked on Selected Individuals. Selecting the Death Fact, where the Place Is Not Blank.
The generated a list of 22 people who have some Death Information.
Note: this is a small file, specifically for this project
The report that is generated, included the Death Fact, (date, place, description), Burial Fact, and for another purpose, the Find-A-Grave fact that I created. Another clue here, is to have the Female Name include the Married Name. An option in the Items to Include menu and selecting the Name Fact at the bottom of the Fact window.
With this report I can then begin my research.
My first place to look for Obituaries is on GenealogyBank.com. I added Genealogy Bank to my Favorite place to search in the Web Search Workspace. I have blogged about how to do that here.
One of the reasons for doing my searching from within FTMM-2 (and FTM2012) is the ease to looking at more details for that Person, but looking in the Lower Left Window or going to the People Workspace. I also am able to use the Web Clipping Option and Merging the data from this non-Ancestry.com website.
Below is the mini-Pedigree Navigation bar, with my person selected. Some of the details for that person is in the Lower Left, as you can see, and I have Selected Genealogy Bank in the Web Search workspace.
Using Genealogy Bank searches I can work with the data, or note that there isn't an Obituary for that person.
In the People Workspace, Person Tab, Task Menu, I make an entry like:
Obituary on GenealogyBank
or
Obituary on GenealogyBank
Not on 1977 - today - 11 Nov 2012
The first example, I would make it Low Priority and Completed.
The second example, I would make it Low Priority but NOT completed.
The Date is important so that at some time in the future, we might want to go back to do another search on Genealogy Bank.
The reason for doing all of this, in this fashion (for me at least), is that My Research Log is a complete listing in the Plan Workspace. It can be filtered, sorted, etc. For Example: the To Do List for Obituaries from today.
The first couple of entries are completed, others were looked for but not found (including the date).
ff I were to sort by the Person's Name, I can see how I have searched, what I need to search, and what I found or didn't found. That is also available in the People Workspace, Person View, Task Tab.
This is working for me. but may be a different approach for others.
_______________________________________________________________
Copyright © 2012 by H R Worthington
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