Family Bible of Emeline Minnick Mentzer (photocopy obtained from descendant). I have one in my possession, a photocopy of one and transcriptions of the other two. Posted in RootsMagic, RootsMagic8 RM 8 Descendancy ReportĪre you blessed with a family Bible in your genealogy collection? Are you lucky enough to have several family Bibles? I’ve had the good fortune to have had access to several family Bibles including Crawford, Currey, Mentzer and Wells.Īs I’ve been going thru the facts and sources I have for my grandmother’s Mentzer siblings, I’ve become confused about the Bibles. RM 8 Light Bulb Settings (August 23, 2021). RootsMagic 8 Duplicate Sources (January 18, 2021). Some of those posts may be helpful to others as they begin using RootsMagic 8. In the process, I wrote several blog posts about those experiences. I have been fortunate to have participated in the preview of RootsMagic 8. The page will be updated as more RM8 blogs are published. This post has been turned into a PAGE with a link at the top of this site. It’s Official! RootsMagic 8 has been released. In following my FB post and a couple of others regarding research logs, I learned that all three of the methods to track research activities in RM7 are merged into the list of tasks in RM8. Thus, I have information in these lists and logs and am curious about how it transitions into RootsMagic 8. However, I did try them out and tried to force myself to use them when I first transitioned to RootsMagic. I have to admit that I would get an ‘F’ when it comes to consistent use of these tools. Task List - where completed tasks can be transferred to a research log. 
RootsMagic 7 has three different ways to track research activities Knowing about these different ways to use a research log not only made me question my own use but also helps me understand the complexity of the programming decisions going into RootsMagic 8. However, my eyes were opened to these differing philosophies about how a research log is used when I made a post to the RM 8 preview group asking about the transition of research logs and tasks lists from RootsMagic 7 to RootsMagic 8. I hadn’t considered the fact that some genealogists might also include sources they want to use in their research log. I had made an assumption that a research log was where one tracked all of the sources used. However, I hadn’t paid attention to differing philosophies about what is recorded in a research log.
I was aware that different genealogists have differing research philosophies or goals. As a genealogist, have you thought about your ‘philosophy’? For example, do you just search ancestors or do you also search descendants?
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