Post by wemkimmel on Nov 14, 2007 13:54:59 GMT -5
Recently I discovered a neat way to create a quick reference chart when I was planning some travel that was to be combined with family visits. I wanted a summary sheet (or two) of selected family members, key dates and locations.
After I ‘Tagged’ the persons of interest, I performed a File > Write Text > Events of Tagged People and then selected the key events of interest (Birth, Baptism, Marriage, Death and/or Burial). A Tab-delimited file was created which I easily imported into a spreadsheet. I eliminated any fields that I wasn’t interested in (e.g. Adoptions), organized the file (manually moving rows around to group families together) and then printed the file (table format) onto several sheets of paper.
This was much easier than carrying an entire register and definitely quicker to refer to during conversations. I also discovered this would be a handy tool when next I visited the Archives to research marriage dates. I could tell at a glance where the marriage date was unknown.
A potential improvement would be the addition of the FRIN (family record identification number), which would make sorting the spreadsheet much easier. Maybe this could be added to the ‘wish list’?
WEMK
After I ‘Tagged’ the persons of interest, I performed a File > Write Text > Events of Tagged People and then selected the key events of interest (Birth, Baptism, Marriage, Death and/or Burial). A Tab-delimited file was created which I easily imported into a spreadsheet. I eliminated any fields that I wasn’t interested in (e.g. Adoptions), organized the file (manually moving rows around to group families together) and then printed the file (table format) onto several sheets of paper.
This was much easier than carrying an entire register and definitely quicker to refer to during conversations. I also discovered this would be a handy tool when next I visited the Archives to research marriage dates. I could tell at a glance where the marriage date was unknown.
A potential improvement would be the addition of the FRIN (family record identification number), which would make sorting the spreadsheet much easier. Maybe this could be added to the ‘wish list’?
WEMK
