A few quick questions regarding logging entrys

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A few quick questions regarding logging entrys

Legg inn av jmc » 31 jan 2007 05:41:59

I have been sent several trees with one having things like a certain
cemetery in capitals - Mondar Rock Cemetery and others Mondar Rock cemetery.

Also I see some with state abbreviations instead of spelling them out.

Which of these are the correct or preferred method? Thanks

Also looking for family info from Canada/Michigan border areas. Where is a
good place to start?

Thanks

Mike

Hugh Watkins

Re: A few quick questions regarding logging entrys

Legg inn av Hugh Watkins » 31 jan 2007 10:20:54

jmc wrote:
I have been sent several trees with one having things like a certain
cemetery in capitals - Mondar Rock Cemetery and others Mondar Rock cemetery.

Also I see some with state abbreviations instead of spelling them out.

Which of these are the correct or preferred method? Thanks

there are no rules for personal trees

I prefer states spelled out because I live in England and don't know
your abbreviations


Also looking for family info from Canada/Michigan border areas. Where is a
good place to start?

google
Canada genealogy
and see what turns up use up to 10 words to reduce the number of hits
locations name

in every country there is a hierarchy of archives from local (often a
central library) >> county >> state >> national

FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL
who paid for what ?
eg paternity divorce

who made the decisions?
eg courts or councils or administrators
they needed census data for demographics or conscription

citizenship
travel
birth marriage naturalisation
locations names
pension rights
militar service

all create a paper trail which may or may not survive
most of which is not on line
or even indexed but in boxes and bundles of papers hidden for years

first of all is living relatives
and family papers and photographs
even postmarks on old envelopes from the homeland

just routine detective work done slowly and carefully recording sources
to enable cross checking by others, or back tracking by you in 10 years
time

Hugh W

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singhals

Re: A few quick questions regarding logging entrys

Legg inn av singhals » 31 jan 2007 17:43:58

jmc wrote:

I have been sent several trees with one having things like a certain
cemetery in capitals - Mondar Rock Cemetery and others Mondar Rock cemetery.

Also I see some with state abbreviations instead of spelling them out.

Which of these are the correct or preferred method? Thanks

Mike

If what you were sent was computer generated, remember that
the very first computers tended to use ALL CAPS because it
was easier to display and print that way (no ascendors as in
d or t, no descendors as in g or p).

Aside from that -- if the place is a commercial cemetery and
it's official name is Mondar Rock Cemetery, then you need
the C in cemetery; if it is simply the cemetery in Mondar
Rock, you don't need a C, you can use a c. Past that, pick
one; I generally omit the word unless it's a commercial
operation (i.e., "buried at Fairview Lutheran" vs "buried at
Gate of Heaven Cemetery").

State abbreviations -- if you're using a genealogy program,
type them as abbreviations because and ONLY because it saves
time. For sharing and for prose documents, set the program
to spell them out. If you're typing into a document file,
better spell them out. If you're using a spreadsheet, you
can abbreviate them, then do a Search/Replace to put in the
full spelling.

Abbreviations change over decades and while O. was once
well-known as Ohio, lots of people today wouldn't recognize
it. Ohio hasn't changed it's _name_ in years. (g)

And, on the abbreviations front, make anyone who gives you a
abbreviation tell you what it means! CLU, DDR, PPS

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