All Names List

I have to wonder...am I the only one who's bothering to do an "All Names"
list of my own? Just for the documents I've found and kept...It's an
incredibly complicated thing, to make this list!!!

I'm starting to wonder if I'm the only one who's done it, and if I'm wasting
my time...I really think it'll pay off once it's "complete" (as complete as
anything ever is in this project). I should have been doing it from the
beginning, I can tell you that!!!

Steve Hayes...

What is an "All Names List" and how do you keep it?

Charani...

Do you mean a one name study? Or are you compiling an index like the
GRO one?

If it's the former, then there are a lot of people doing them.

If it's the latter . . . . . . .

Hugh Watkins...

my family Tree maker files display all names
listed alphabetically or by date of birth

the on line versions are easiest to read for spotting typos

wtwjgc...

But will it include names in documents and sources as well as family trees?

Hugh Watkins...

if I enter them as individuals
they graduate from the source to the trees

I have a weddding certificate with a couple of POLLINGERS ln Bristol
as witnesses
so I did some quick and nasty online genealogy and ended up with 66 of them
habitational name for someone from any of several places named Polling
in Bavaria and Austria.
(Pöllinger): habitational name for someone from Pölling in Bavaria.

I have had one conact from a living POLLINGER researcher who also could
find no obvious closer connection with the LAPAHM and the BALL from Bath
and Bristol

As I review the data
my maternal grandfather
Alfred Thomas Lapham
Birth registered 12 NOV 1872 Ashley Gloucestershire
Freemason 5 DEC 1906 St Andrews Lodge 2541 Avonmouth
Freemason 3 OCT 1906
Freemason 25 JAN 1907 Alfreduno T Lapham 568
Freemason 25 JAN 1907 recorded Grand Lodge London

so there could be a yet undiscoverd masonic connection

meanwhile I just let them rest
I don't enter incumbants or church officials at weddings

but there may yet be a couple of clerics in there

Hugh W

Dave Mayall...

It depends how you use it.

Names can be associated with an event in a variety of ways.

shane...

A good way to do this is to use a citation to the document containing
the name(s); e.g. Census 18xx - one citation for each person on the
return, linked to the Person entry - Gene 4.3.4 does this.

Hugh Watkins...

It is a limitation of FTM

that you can not easily connect apprentices and farm and domestic
servants as complete households except by making them children

Custodian 3 is far better for that purpose
with many templates
There are currently two versions of Custodian - version 2 and version 3:
... Custodian 3 was released in December 2003 and has a growing
reputation and ...

and from USA Clooz

An electronic filing cabinet for systematically organizing and storing
genealogical records.
more

some really serious genealogists are using paperport

PaperPort Professional 11 is the most productive and cost effective way
for ... PaperPort Professional combines the efficiency of document
management, ...

which is really an industrial strengh office management system

but I never had any ambition to be an office manager

so although I own two of the above I have never done more than tasted them

If I could afford employ a twam of secretaries and a librarian or
archivist that would be another matter

Hugh W

newer

one-name LAPHAM

and I see that I need to look at ADA closely

so a list is very very useful but I like to get mine made automatically

Hugh W

-David
(One of those bums from the Colonies...)

shane...

For my research extracts I use Bygones. All my original docs or
facsimilies of them are indexed by Family Name and Event Date. The index
contains only those who are married. The first entry should always be
the marriage cert. Unmarried Persons are members of their parents
family, until married.

The originals are filed by family using the name of the head of the
family and in his folder the documents are listed by event date.

My genealogical (tree drawing) program, Gene 4.3.4, creates a list of