So far, so good. In five years of MRIN filing I’ve never needed a backup of my MRIN’s.
But, what I have done occasionally is swap numbers around and lose track of where else the MRIN’s exist in my database. …[continued]
MRINFiling
Welcome to MRIN filing on steroids. …[continued]
As I read through other genealogy blogs, I often come across talk of disorganization, ideas and plans for organization and wishes for family members who will care about it after we’re gone. …[continued]
Officially, I’m on holidays as long as the sun still shines. Unofficially, well …
Since I’m in another tidying up phase I decided to have another look at the old survey. One of the outstanding comments there is in answer to the question: “What other content would be useful to you?”
“How to know when to stop re-organizing when you have a system set up, a curse of a Virgo.”
Legacy 7.0 is coming out soon. Probably. In which case, we’re a month closer to it than we were, say, a month ago.
Just as you would probably sweep a spot in your house for a new couch, you might want to sweep your database in preparation for the new version. It’s optional. And if you don’t use Legacy, well … I’m just speechless.
I have to pack up and go traveling for awhile, so I’m leaving you a list of things to do while I’m gone. Don’t say I never give you nothin’. …[continued]
Thanks again to all of you who answered the survey. It’s given me a sneak-peek into who you are which is a great relief after a year of writing ‘blind’. I hope I’ve answered some of your questions over the past month.
There was not a lot of response overall so I can only make my conclusions and comments based on a relatively small sampling. Most of you have many years experience with both computers and genealogy which makes me wonder what I could possibly have to offer. At the same time, I seem to have satisfied most of the people some of the time. (But not all the people all the time. And some people were just plain cranky. So, about how life goes… )
Reportedly, Legacy 7.0, that’s due out soon, will be doing something different with Sources. I can hardly wait to find out what.
I’ve heard there’s some connection to Elizabeth Shown Mill’s work, Evidence Explained, which is about source citation models. That shouldn’t affect what I’m going to talk about here. Not unless they completely re-design the Assigned Sources window and kill my present use of it.
If you’re using the digital component of the MRIN Filing System, or even if you’re not, you may have realized by now that it’s easy to link your digital images if you want to. It’s not necessary, but Legacy does make that possible. Just browse to your source image and link it up. Make sure you distinguish between Master Source and Source Detail images. In other words, if you have a Death Certificate for an individual, that’s a Source Detail image, not a Master Source image. …[continued]
I knew I’d seen this somewhere, and I meant to go looking for it again. In my spare time. Ahem. Fortunately, I just stumbled upon it.
If you’re using the digital component of the MRIN Filing System, and you’re a Legacy user, there’s a quick way to find your next MRIN or your next MRIN-extension. When you go to put a number in the Source Citation Detail Box, click on the magnifier next to the File ID box.
If you’ve digitized all the paper you can with OCR, the pile that’s left needs a different solution.
This is the do-it-yourself method for scanning and saving multi-page documents.
I knew I was forgetting something. I’m at an age now where my memory cells seem to be diminishing at an ever-increasing speed.
I was over at Ancestry.com going merrily through a batch of old newspapers, (Wow, look at that, in 1890 my great-grandfather received a commendation at a county fair for a “mammoth cucumber”… He was a conductor for the NYC. Who would have guessed he was also a cucumber aficionado?) and saving page after page to my computer, muttering under my breath “why don’t they have a highlighter tool so I don’t have to search for the snippet again later …,” mutter, mutter …
