I only use ToDos when I really need to. I don't have them for everyone. We have had numbers of people as Family Historians for my mother-in-law's family over the years who have made notes but never listed sources. Now as the elected Family Historian, I am working to correct that plus computerize 22 lines of relatives. If I see from their research that two children are marked as twins, I will enter their names etc and make a ToDo that I need to verify their birth dates. If I see that several brothers married women of the same surname, I will enter a ToDo to research if those women were related. In other words, if a question comes to my mind while entering information into Legacy, I will note it in the ToDos. I might not make a ToDo if I enter their residence, but at some point I will look up all of those residences in the census if they are published censuses. At some point I will look up all of the men who have military notations in the proper military records. However, when I encounter something that brings a specific question to my mind, I make a ToDo for it because I don't know if my mind will go there later on or if I will see the same possible connections. In addition to the ToDo list, I do keep a Research Calendar so that I can see in one Excel spreadsheet what questions I have, what sources I have examined on what dates, what evidence I found, and what conclusion I had (which might bring up more questions). You could use the ToDo list as both a research calendar AND correspondence log, but I have not used it that way. You can put sources, photos and such in there too.
God bless, Ellen ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Cook" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 1:36:50 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Re: How to manage Research / TODOs / Sources ? .This is a big part of my original question, and I've not yet worked out my game plan on this yet. For me, the TODO would be something like "Find Obituary", but I'm getting the sense that others (most?) make even more granular TODO items (perhaps for each source?). That seems like more work, not less to me, but like I said I'm still working it out for myself. Following the example I put up before, I'd put something like this in the research notes or results... Task: Thoroughly searched newspapers looking for Obit of Jane Doe. N/A [x], [y], [z] 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
