Lisa Louise Cooke
Episode 36: Listener Comments and Questions Part 1
Today’s show is all about YOU! This episode is made up completely of your emailed questions, comments and stories. I couldn’t do this podcast without you, and I definitely want it to be a two way conversation.
Joining me on today’s episode to read your emails is my daughter, Lacey Cooke.
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Jenna in Kansas City asks about the GPS method:
Does that information stand on it's on as meeting the genealogical proof standard?
Do I need to create a research report for my father and prove he died September 1, 2001? Do I need a research report for each and every ancestor?
Episode 20 Navigating Your Research With the GPS
http://personallifemedia.com/podcasts/415-family-history/episodes/31805-navigating-research-mark-tucker
Kent Frazier writes:
Asks Lisa to help him track down a newspaper article depicting the killing of his great great grandfather Thomas Leonard Frazier that originally appeared in the The Deseret News.
Recommended Site: www.genealogybank.com
Sean Lamb writes in about tagging each digital photo’s metadata. It's like writing about the content of a photo on the back of a print.
Instructions metadata tagging:
On a modern computer, this is pretty easy. For Microsoft Windows computers (it should work at least as far back as Windows XP), right-click on the file in Windows Explorer then click on Properties. On a Mac, click on the file icon and then in the Finder menu, click on Get Info. I'm using Windows Vista, so this comes up with a window that has three tabs on it: General, Security and Details. Go to the Details tab and click to the right of the fields that are listed there to enable editing in those fields. On my computer, there are fields for Title, Subject, Tags and Comments as well as Authors, Date Taken and Date Acquired. There are a number of other fields that can be edited on this screen that have to do with the photographic equipment that was used, so scanned photos from your grandparents' Kodak Brownie cameras can be updated too. The fields that I fill in are Subject, Tags and where known, the Authors and Date Taken. The Tags field can be very useful for the computer's search function. If these fields are not available from the operating system itself, most modern photo editing software has functionality that will let you edit these same fields from within the photo software (for example, in Adobe Photoshop, this is under File -> File Info)
Russ Worthington wrote in to say that Lisa inspired him to post a blog based on Episode 33.
http://ftmuser.blogspot.com/2009/06/getting-files-organized.html
In this blog posting Russ provides a link to his blog which is about applying the hard drive organization that you talked about on the show and incorporating the Family Tree Maker software.
Bob Callahan writes:
Lisa, I've been doing genealogy for a couple of years on and off and have quite a lot of material. I found your two different pod casts and I've almost gotten caught up on the "making easy" group. (flying around the country and listening). Next will be the Genealogy Gems podcast.
Bob wants to know Is there a "best practice" for which name should be used for a woman’s record? Maiden or married? He also asks for a recap of primary sources.
Eric Gomes writes:
Let me first say that I am a new listener and have been on a Genealogy Gems and Family History: Genealogy Made Easy Podcast Marathon. For the past month, I have listened to almost all of your podcasts and have gleaned quite a bit of information... to the point that it has almost overloaded in my brain. J But that is a good thing because I have a lot of new ideas for expanding the tree that my grandmother started forty plus years ago...
I just listened / watched the Premium Members Video for organizing your hard drive. I have one suggestion that I would like to send along that I do when I am setting up an organization tree on my own hard drive.
Eric's Instructions for copying multiple folders on your hard drive:
When setting up the surname folders and the sub-folders that go inside each, you set up one set of folders inside of one of the surname folders that are brand new with no documents inside of them. Then highlight each of them by first clicking on the first folder inside the surname folder, press and hold the shift key and click on the last folder and then right click on one of the highlighted folders and click copy from the drop down list. Then click and open the next surname folder, right click inside the folder and then click on paste from the drop down folder.
Eric also asks “Do you have any suggestions on what to look at when checking out and deciding on a society to join?”
This is a GREAT suggestion! I constantly move multiple files at a time, but completely forgot that this can be done with file folders.
Premium Members can look forward to a video in the near future showing how this is done.
Become a Premium Member at http://www.genealogygems.tv
Episode 32 Hard drive Organization Part 1
http://personallifemedia.com/podcasts/415-family-history/episodes/48299-genealogical-hard-drive
Episode 33 Hard Drive Organization Part 2
http://personallifemedia.com/podcasts/415-family-history/episodes/48388-hard-drive-organization-part
