More luck

[Pandabean]

Just re looked at an old certificate of my great great grans marriage and looked at the entry below. Behold it was her Cousin getting married on the same day but at a different place.

Christina Rutherford (Daug. of John Rutherford and Agnes Penn) married James Miller

The entry below is
Robert Wilkinson and Elizabeth Penn (daughter of John Penn [Agnes' brother] and Mary Leishman)

This will teach me to look or at least glance at the rest of the entries on the certificates from now on.

[Russell]

Hi Andy

Its great when you pick up something like that. Two for the price of one!

Look at the witnesses at weddings carefully too. You may not make the link now but what's the betting you will see a connection later on.

We also have the same person registering two deaths on the same page of the Register. They conveniently put in his address both times.

Scottisah Statutory records can be great

Russell

[Pandabean]

Yeh it is a great thing. The main thing is that it was one of my first few certificates that I got and never made a connection til now. That must have been earlier this year that I got it.

The witnesses have also helped on other certs. Always good to find these little gems.

[Russell]

Hi Andy

My wife sits down periodically with her outline tree and the entire folder of certificates for that branch and works through them page by page.
She comes up with new links every time even though she has done it every couple of months for the past year.

She likes making lists so she now has a list for every address we know of, every cause of death, every occupation, every census they are on, and so on.

That's why your summary sheets are going to be so useful.

Russell

[Pandabean]

You have just given me an idea for a new sheet Russell. One thing that I missed out on the Summary sheet was the witnesses to the marriage and informants for deaths.

Hi Andy

My wife sits down periodically with her outline tree and the entire folder of certificates for that branch and works through them page by page.
She comes up with new links every time even though she has done it every couple of months for the past year.

She likes making lists so she now has a list for every address we know of, every cause of death, every occupation, every census they are on, and so on.

That's why your summary sheets are going to be so useful.

Russell

[Russell]

This is just long distance brain storming Andy.

k k

Russell

[Pandabean]

Okay, looks like I can incorporate the witnesses and informants into the IS sheet, may do some extra sheets for addresses and occupations.

Thanks Russell

[Pandabean]

Hmmm, would a sheet containing Birth Marriage and Death information with all the details of the certificates be useful so that they are all on one sheet?

[Russell]

If you re-activated your posts about the spreadsheets a lot of people viewed what you had done and would be alerted to the new addition to the post.

Make the suggestion and see what replies you get rather than spend a lot of time working up a sheet which might not get so favourable a response.
I like the idea but having an inveterate tame list writer already it would do her out of a job.
Maybe I should hire her out to write other peoples lists

Russell

[paddyscar]

So, while everyone is brainstorming, mind if I throw in a question?

Do the genealogy software programmes not create the type of lists and cross reference capabilities that are being discussed here?

I have been using the free download of Brother's Keeper and was thinking of buying Family Tree maker to get around doing at least SOME of the manual list making. Are the software programmes not really going to give me that?

Thanks,

Frances