From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Mon Feb 27 09:12:02 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1RGC2jb013375; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:12:02 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1RGC153020782 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:12:01 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k1RDgJFI008154 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 08:42:19 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k1RDgJo2008153 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 08:42:19 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k1QNFmFI006259 for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:15:48 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k1R1jDqO024077 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:45:13 -0700 X-Envelope-From: Kin2annie@aol.com Sun Feb 26 18:45:12 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1R1jCjb024066 for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:45:12 -0700 Received: from imo-m26.mx.aol.com (imo-m26.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.7]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1R1j9hW008690 for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:45:10 -0700 Received: from Kin2annie@aol.com by imo-m26.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.3.) id e.e4.7ac5d9d4 (4539) for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:44:54 -0500 (EST) From: Kin2annie@aol.com Message-ID: Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:44:54 EST To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: 9.0 SE for Windows sub 5022 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] re:conflicting research Interesting topic and one that had me stumped for years. My solution may not suit everyone but so far, it's worked for me. I try to save everything about a person in my genealogy program. If I have what I believe to be conflicting info, in the notes I preface the paragraph or sentence with the tag 'CONFLICT'. The source/sources are always included. I also use the 'surname' INFO. Suppose in my database, I have many members of the Whatzit family. I find information about Susan Whatzit. I have no proof that she is a member of my Whatzit family though I feel that she might be. Rather than discarding and discounting her (and 2 years down the road wishing I'd kept her), I make her a member of the INFO family. She becomes Susan Whatzit INFO. Or the way my program is set up..INFO, Susan Whatzit. When I travel, ALL info is with me in my laptop. Would love to hear of other suggestions, ideas. thanks