It would be really good to have somewhere to construct a 'to do' list. And/or somewhere to make general notes that are not associated with any single person or group of persons.
Keep up the good work.
Sue
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Jane
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There is one already, check out named lists.
Jane
My Family History : My Photography "Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad."
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A workaround I use is to create note records and place them in a named list called 'todo'. I don't attach these note records to anyone. I also place individuals in this todo list along with a named list note (a note that only appears in the named list) if I have further work to do on them.
Not a total solution to a proper todo list as I have to manually maintain it, but at least its a stop gap.
Not a total solution to a proper todo list as I have to manually maintain it, but at least its a stop gap.
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jmurphy
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To expand on the idea of named lists --
I recently subscribed to the new 'international collection' at World Vital Records. Through an arrangement with FindMyPast.com, subscribers can search on their WVR account and link to the data at FMP.
They are rolling out the different collections at different times. Right now we can see the 1881 and 1861 census. Eventually they will add others.
I am making named lists 'search 1841 census' -- 'search 1851 census' -- etc. for the people I expect to find on each one. As I find their records, I take their names off the list.
Other lists might be 'find maiden name' or 'search BMD index'.
As time goes on, I find it is much more efficient to search each record set one at a time and looking for multiple people in each record set, rather than doing global searches on a single person and gathering records from one record set and then another. So making a to-do list for each individual task works for me.
I recently subscribed to the new 'international collection' at World Vital Records. Through an arrangement with FindMyPast.com, subscribers can search on their WVR account and link to the data at FMP.
They are rolling out the different collections at different times. Right now we can see the 1881 and 1861 census. Eventually they will add others.
I am making named lists 'search 1841 census' -- 'search 1851 census' -- etc. for the people I expect to find on each one. As I find their records, I take their names off the list.
Other lists might be 'find maiden name' or 'search BMD index'.
As time goes on, I find it is much more efficient to search each record set one at a time and looking for multiple people in each record set, rather than doing global searches on a single person and gathering records from one record set and then another. So making a to-do list for each individual task works for me.
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Thanks all, I will try out the Named List feature. The term 'Named List' isn't very intuitive to look up in the 'help file' - hence me not finding it before.
Sorry to have caused a problem when there really wasn't one.
Sue
Sorry to have caused a problem when there really wasn't one.
Sue
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Jane
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Sue don't worry, lots of people miss the named lists, but for most people they do more than just keep 'To-Dos'
Jane
My Family History : My Photography "Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad."
My Family History : My Photography "Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad."