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Dear List,
Whilst the idea of missing data being automatically added to
To Do List seems to my mind a good idea , Genealogy being as it is, there is
Always going to be data you dont know, ie. We can never expect to 'finish' our
tree, rather we follow each lines as and where we can locate data.
Once you get past 1837(in England) , rarely are you going to
be able to say the exact date a person was born so any born prior to this would
automatically be flagged under an 'automatic To Do List'.This would mean
hundreds of names that you would have and no way of ever locating the
details. Also post 1837 the repository for those births that are missing
could be any one of several places depending on Country, State, Province, County
the person might have lived so I can't see how the program could know which
repository to look in, it might state a birth is missing but I would have to
manually still enter in the Repository to look in.
eg. I need to check India for my 3great
grandmother's birth abt 1860 that I am missing. It might flag that this entry is
missing but how does it know I need to look in Army Chaplain Papers, {as
her father was in 70th regiment in India} as opposed to New Zealand BDM's
where she married or England where her parents died.
I have just over 10,000 direct relatives in my file and there
are countless details on them that I don't know, ie where born for some, where
died for others, maiden names of some spouses, so an automatically generated
list is going to be too extensive and the important direct lines, or ones I am
currently working on would become lost amongst the dross of countless names.
Thus I would like to see the To Do remain as it is, so that I
can manually enter in what I require to follow up at my discretion.
Regards Sandy Quinn
Gordonvale- Far North Queensland- Australia
email- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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