Helen,
What is FHRM? I tried a web search but only found a book published in Australia.
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Gerry,
It's an application that I am (slowly) developing to keep track of research activities -- what have I done? What did I find (or not find)? Have I recorded the results in my FH project? What's in progress and planned?
Intention is that I will (among other things) avoid repeating searches; be able to generate a to-do list for a visit to (for example) the National Library of Wales; remember to look in all the sources that I know of that pertain to a particular place; generate a standard citation format for each source type; and (perhaps most important of all) record the reasoning by which I came to a particular conclusion.
I know I can do some of these things with Notes, flags and to-do lists in FH; but I personally don't find that both flexible and structured enough.
When it's ready, I propose to make it available to others to use... but don't hold your breath! However, any suggestions for facilities you'd like to see are welcome.
[I should add: I see it as totally complementary to Ancestral Sources. FHRM will track the process by which a source is discovered; and AS will hopefully be the means by which I enter the data into FH).
It's an application that I am (slowly) developing to keep track of research activities -- what have I done? What did I find (or not find)? Have I recorded the results in my FH project? What's in progress and planned?
Intention is that I will (among other things) avoid repeating searches; be able to generate a to-do list for a visit to (for example) the National Library of Wales; remember to look in all the sources that I know of that pertain to a particular place; generate a standard citation format for each source type; and (perhaps most important of all) record the reasoning by which I came to a particular conclusion.
I know I can do some of these things with Notes, flags and to-do lists in FH; but I personally don't find that both flexible and structured enough.
When it's ready, I propose to make it available to others to use... but don't hold your breath! However, any suggestions for facilities you'd like to see are welcome.
[I should add: I see it as totally complementary to Ancestral Sources. FHRM will track the process by which a source is discovered; and AS will hopefully be the means by which I enter the data into FH).
Helen Wright
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