{"id":20802,"date":"2024-08-11T10:08:54","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T15:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=20802"},"modified":"2024-08-12T21:45:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T02:45:49","slug":"research-notes-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/11\/research-notes-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Notes Files"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/word-images-notes.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/word-images-notes-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/word-images-notes-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/word-images-notes-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/word-images-notes-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/word-images-notes.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a variety of ways one can organize and track their research while they are working. I find it particularly helpful to have an open word document where I can paste screen shots of record images, paste copies of index entries, and type in my own notes. I put a footer on these documents and page numbers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I should have put a date and time stamp on them as well as I occasionally print them out and take notes on them as well and knowing which one is the most recent one is a good thing. There are programs one can use to manage your research, but this works for me&#8211;and can easily be saved as a PDF file to be placed in the same digital folder where I have saved individual image files of the records that have had screen shots inserted into the document. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another advantage to this is that I don&#8217;t have to try and read my handwriting later.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You may have another approach. That&#8217;s fine. The thing is record what you find, your notes, and your process. That will make analysis and entry of the information in other programs or genealogical databases much easier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Get &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/more-genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">More Genealogy Tip of the Day<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a variety of ways one can organize and track their research while they are working. I find it particularly helpful to have an open word document where I can paste screen shots of record images, paste copies of index entries, and type in my own notes. I put a footer on these documents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}