I keep all my email correspondence from cousins, near and far, and print it out as pdf's. If it's source material (it isn't always) I attach it as a source and put the relevant passage in the Source Detail Text and the page number of the pdf. Some of these pdf's ramble on forever.
If you've been using the information given to you but not sourcing it and not keeping their emails then yes, it would be a problem. Unless you can contact them each again and start from scratch. ----- JL JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://www.jgen.ws/jlog On 6/20/2010 12:07 PM, JMB wrote: > Something on those lines is probably the best compromise. > > I just had an example of a contact from someone about a distant branch > of my family that I spent some time looking at a few years ago. I was in > contact with about half a dozen people but fortunately I have put the > surname in their entries in my OUTLOOK address book so I was able to > find them all easily. Each of them quite probably contacted me about a > different person in that line, it is retrieving that information that is > the problem. > > > MB > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Connie Sheets <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Sunday, 20 June, 2010 19:25:27 > *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Storing details of contacts > > There are several ways you could do this (or something quite similar). > > When the contact gives me specific info/data, say in an e-mail, I attach > a Source Citation to the data/event using the e-mail template. I have > also started printing the e-mail to PDF and attaching it that way. > > When it becomes apparent that we may have an ongoing correspondence, I > try to get at least the basics of the person's descent from the ancestor > of common interest, and enter that person with their line of descent in > my database (particularly if the contact provides me with a lot of > information). > > If you create a Mailing Address entry for the person, the Address screen > has a Notes tab where you can record anything you want, such as the > surnames they are searching. You can then go to Master Lists> Address > Lists> Mailing and pull up the data that way. > > What you are describing is also the purpose of a Correspondence Log, > which has been in existence for eons, at least in paper form. The To Do > feature will allow you to replicate a Correspondence Log (not in the > same format as one usually sees in paper logs, but with the same > content, or more). Note that one of the types of "to dos" is > Correspondence; by creating a Mailing Address entry for the contact and > attaching it to a Correspondence To Do (instead of the default > Repository Address) you have another way of accessing the info. > > So, pick the one (or more) that works best for you. But in particular, > if they are giving you data either through e-mail or from their online > trees, they are a source and you should be recording them as such, IMO. > > Connie > > > --- On Sun, 6/20/10, JMB <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > When I make a contact through Ancestry, Genes Reunited etc I usually > paste the message into the Notes for the Individual in my tree that the > contact asked about (or I originated to query about). It can get > difficult to remember who has contacted me about who. I have thought of > starting to use To Do as a way of storing the information because they > can all be listed. > > What I would really like is some sort of note that can be attached to > all the ancestors of an Individual so I could quickly see any contacts > who have the common ancestor. I would need to be able to edit this so I > could removed some Individuals and add to others if I got further > information. > > > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > <http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp> Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
