{"id":2360,"date":"2022-09-22T10:12:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T17:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=2360"},"modified":"2022-09-22T10:12:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T17:12:35","slug":"i-create-a-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=2360","title":{"rendered":"I Create a System"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\/More and more often I find myself searching my DNA matches for clues to my brick wall ancestors. I run cluster reports and try to construct family trees for my matches, hoping to find a familiar surname. I jot down information as I run across it, but these stacks of notes and trees were getting out of control. I needed a new system.\n<\/p>\n

This week I worked on the record-keeping problem.\n<\/p>\n

First, I found some space in a file cabinet drawer. I know, I know, I am a Luddite who likes to work with paper files. For me an electronic file is a file lost. The file cabinet works best for me.\n<\/p>\n

I began by creating folders for DNA related information:\n<\/p>\n

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  1. I have attended numerous presentations and webinars on DNA research. I gathered the notes from these in a folder.\n<\/li>\n
  2. I have run several auto cluster reports for my Dad. I put them all in a folder.\n<\/li>\n
  3. The testing companies periodically update our ethnicity reports, and I print out this helpful information. Monitoring these has already assisted in identifying one unknown ancestor. For example, when the companies began separating English and Irish ancestry, I realized my mystery great-grandfather must have been Irish. Ethnicity reports went into another folder.\n<\/li>\n
  4. I made folders for printouts of match lists from each of the companies we have used for DNA testing.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In the cabinet behind these folders, I placed alphabetical dividers. As I work on a particular match, I can alphabetically file the notes and trees for that person.\n<\/p>\n

    Organizing my work this way accomplishes two things:\n<\/p>\n

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    1. I can retrieve information with ease.\n<\/li>\n
    2. I have less office clutter with everything in neat files.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      As work evolves, so must organizational systems. My DNA research was overdue for a re-do. I should have done it a long time ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      More and more often I find myself searching my DNA matches for clues to my brick wall ancestors. I run cluster reports and try to construct family trees for my matches, hoping to find a familiar surname. I jot down information as I run across it, but these stacks of notes and trees were getting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dna","category-genealogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2361,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360\/revisions\/2361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}