* where you are

[Johnr65]

Is there a plug in for showing a note of where you were in your tree before you left it? So that you can carry on researching the family you were doing instead of starting up and just finding a list of all individuals? As one gets older one forgets at what point you left your research!

[Jane]

The quick way to find the last person you worked on is click on the column header for the Update Date on the Records Window and the most recent ones will come to the top.

Alternately you can use a Named list and add the people you are active on to the top or you could simply change the File Root person on the Focus window to where you are before you exit.

[Johnr65]

Thank you Jane.

[davidm_uk]

For some time now I've used a flag for this.

I've created a flag called "Follow Up", then in the Individual Records window added a column to display this flag, and also on the main diagrams that I use (Ancestors, Descendants and All Relatives) added a condition to display a prominent icon when the individual has that flag set.

On the Individual Records window I can then just click the Follow Up column title to bring all those individuals to the top of the list. I can clearly see them in diagrams as well.

It does have an advantage that I can mark a number of entries for follow up, rather than just the last person I added/modified.

I also have a flag called "New Data". While doing searches say on Ancestry I might find quite a few entries that I want to save as sources. Rather than add these into FH one at a time, I save all the new images (eg census page, screen grab of birth index etc) in a folder called "New Data to Enter", and just set that flag for the individual(s) associated with the new data. When I've finished my "I'm on a role" session with Ancestry I can then go back later and easily see where I've got new data (eg sources) to enter, and can move the captured images into the correct place in the project folder as I add the source into FH. I have another column on the Individual Properties window, and another flag on diagrams to help find these entries.

[RogerF]

The best method I know of, because it doesn't alter the sequence of any records, is the Standard Query (from the View menu) "Last Updated Individual Records" -- the folk you were last working on are there at the top.