Are you a list maker? I am! I have to do lists for everything. Shopping, future projects, places I need to go, things I need to do. Being a genealogist it seems I'm always working on a list of some sort.
This week I've been working on my lists for upcoming trips. We're not doing trips around the world or anything but you must admit that being prepared aka having a good list is the foundation for a successful research trip.
Tomorrow we are headed out to Miamisburg, Ohio to do some research on my Gebhart & Early families that lived in that area. So I've got an extensive list of people who need obits. While I am pulling newspapers to search & copy, Mark will be going thru the books looking for mention of them there.
Other lists that are in progress include one for next Tuesday's trip to Fort Wayne and then for our vacation trip I'm working on lists for Pennsylvania (Dauphin, Berks, Lancaster & Schuylkill Counties) and the North Carolina State library & the Archives there as well. Also hoping to do some work in West Virginia and Ohio along the way.
Fortunately I don't need them all today. Most are an ongoing thing in my genealogy software, Legacy. When I do an obit list I take them out of the software and put them on an excel spreadsheet so they are in chronological order, making two copies, one for me and one for the librarian or Mark, depending on who is pulling the films for me. Otherwise I use them straight from Legacy. I print them, bind them in one of my research notebooks and then we are good to go! You can check out the research notebook & obit list by clicking on the link and scrolling down. Both are there within a few days of each other.
Lists for research trips - they're a good thing! How do you arrange your lists for your trips? Do you use them the way your software presents them or customize them for yourself? I'd like to hear how you do your lists.
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