The Family Curator - Comments

Barbara comments on Happy Birthday Princess Usha from your friend Susie Brown

Barbara — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:45:04 +0000

Denise, What a fascinating story about your mother and the Princess. I thoroughly enjoyed it. And, what a sad life she had, the remarriage, the moving to another country. The father had lots of money, but probably wasn’t happy either.

Steve Hayes comments on Four Tried and True Systems for Organizing Genealogy Research

Steve Hayes — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:38:42 +0000

The easiest filing system I have ever seen is one recommended with the early versions of the Personal Ancestral File program (PAF). It even came with a program to support it, the Research Data Filer.

The simplest solution is this: number each document with a serial number, and file them in numerical order. Use a computer program to keep track of the contents of the paper file.

The Research Data Filer had (has -- i still use it!) two files - documents and data. The document file contains a description of each document. The data file indexes the people in the documents, and allows you to enter the kind of information contained in the documents - the fields are: Document Number, Page, Name, Sex, Id, Event, Date, Place, Rela(ations), Relations IF numbers (up to 3) and Comments. For Id I use the RINs allocated by my generalogy program, since they are unique to each person.

Thus is you are looking for a person, you can earch on name or Id, and it comes up with a liast of the documents that contain information on that person, which you can then find easily, because you've filed them in numerical order.

Joan Miller (Luxegen) comments on Wordless Wednesday: Dating a Photo of Princess Usha at the Brown Girls' Party

Joan Miller (Luxegen) — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:21:53 +0000

What an interesting picture (and I read the accompanying story of the Princess). Not everyone played with princesses when they were children!

Family Curator comments on A Different Family Road Trip

Family Curator — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:00:01 +0000

Thanks so much for your notes and good wishes. I'm hoping Mom will be at Jamboree 2011!

Cheryl Palmer comments on A Different Family Road Trip

Cheryl Palmer — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:53:13 +0000

Oh Denise, sorry to see this news about your mom. I love her sense of humor. I know she will be recouping rapidly as there is so much more for you all to research and explore. Will be thinking of you both and waiting to hear more about your newest extensions on your family tree! Here's to that speedy recovery! Hugs to you both!

NolichuckyRoots comments on A Different Family Road Trip

NolichuckyRoots — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:27:23 +0000

My prayers are with all of you.

Michelle Goodrum comments on A Different Family Road Trip

Michelle Goodrum — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:05:01 +0000

Wishing your mom a speedy recovery and you and your sister safe travels.

Kathryn Doyle comments on Put Another Candle on the Blog Birthday Cake

Kathryn Doyle — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:07:04 +0000

Denise,
Sorry to be late to the party! Congratulations and happy blogoversary. I so enjoyed our lunch with mom (and fM & Miriam) at Jamboree. I've been thinking a lot about your wise counsel. I'll let you know how it all turns out. Here's to three more great years (and thirty more after that?)