I would very much like to compare notes with your wife. Please ask her to contact me.
On Friday, April 21, 2017 at 5:20:54 PM UTC+1, [email protected] wrote: > > > > On Thursday, April 20, 2017 at 5:37:08 PM UTC-5, Richard Evans wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> First of all I want to thank you all for replying. Though I most of you >> seem to have jumped to the conclusion, that I am trying to replace >> genealogical programs. I am not. In fact, I believe I have identified, a >> gap in the market. >> >> I would direct you to the phrase I used in my initial post: >> >> "TiddlyWiki to aid in guiding, documenting and planning the research on >> an individual." >> >> The operative word there is individual. I am considering a TiddlyWiki >> that concentrates on a single person. >> >> > Which is *exactly* how my wife uses TW. She's a genealogy nutcase, total > addict and has... I dunno, 30? 40? TWs devoted to the research and data > curation. She uses Scrivener for "presentation" (having tried and given up > trying to use it for the data/research side) and now sticks with TW for > "everything". > > I know from my own experience that managing the research is the most >> critical area when tracing your Family Tree. The number of times I have >> completed a piece of research, only to find I have already done it some >> years previously and not documented the results properly. >> > > Jeez... you *sound* like her ;) > > > >> Goodness knows how many times I have duplicated a research task that had >> a negative result. I frequently find I have essential information missing >> from important people in my tree. Or I am just confused about how best to >> proceed on researching an individual. >> >> A genealogist's requirements can be broken down into three components, a >> research plan or checklist, a research log and documentation of the >> results, positive and negative. There are various tools used by >> genealogists to manage their research. People use Word or One Note or >> Evernote or pen and paper. >> > > or TW :) > > And census data changes all the time, where people on Ancestry.com > transcribe old docs and (obviously) make mistakes in doing so. > > >> Personally, I think only pen and paper has the flexibility to handle all >> three components. >> >> > My wife does a lot with pen and paper but for genealogy, she insists on TW. > > Just my $0.02 by proxy :) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/a7b193ce-224c-4fd1-b12a-c227eb9387ec%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
