RE: [LegacyUG] Documenting negative searches

2008-02-24 Thread Kirsten Bowman
Michele: Oops! The To-Do List is meant to double as a research log that you keep as a permanent record of negative as well as positive results. Kirsten -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michele Lewis Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 4:38 PM To

RE: [LegacyUG] Documenting negative searches

2008-02-24 Thread ronald ferguson
Michele, You are quite correct, there is not a really satisfactory way of dealing with these. I also used to have them in my ToDos and deleted them if the results were negative. Unfortunately because of the numbers it got to the stage that I could not be sure whether I had properly checked som

Re: [LegacyUG] Documenting negative searches

2008-02-24 Thread Michele Lewis
24, 2008 8:41 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Documenting negative searches Michele, like Kristin says, the To-do list is your permanent record of your searches. You want to keep the negative ones so that you know you did look for them once in those conditions. Just make a note of it in the Results tab af

Re: [LegacyUG] Documenting negative searches

2008-02-24 Thread Susan Daily
Michele, like Kristin says, the To-do list is your permanent record of your searches. You want to keep the negative ones so that you know you did look for them once in those conditions. Just make a note of it in the Results tab after you close it. Another good thing, too, is that it dates when you

RE: [LegacyUG] Documenting negative searches

2008-02-24 Thread M. Brenzel
LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Documenting negative searches The only thing I am concerned about is that the list of to-dos will get confusing, which ones are negative searches and which ones are things I still need to do! michele - Original Message - From: "

Re: [LegacyUG] Documenting negative searches

2008-02-25 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
I put the name of the source, the pages 'no one' was on. I also try to guess why they are missing. Some of my family is missing on a census but they are there before and after.(Other years)I don't solve it BUT document they are missing, between the neighbors. Why may be impossible. Rich in LA CA --