Tuesday's Tip - searching, tagging & data entry with Find A Grave.
Well a week late and I learned something - it was not necessarily YouTube that caused my problem of not being able to upload a video. Every so often you might want to uninstall and re-install your browser because it gets glitchy. I had some issues with Chrome and that fix seemed to set everything to rights. BUT make sure you have another browser available on your computer (so you can re-install from somewhere) and make sure to NOT delete your bookmarks and data.
NOW, on to Tuesday's Tip - we have the video today - it is an introduction to some of our new members and a reminder to the old hands here about "getting around in the LVUG Community." Also I walk through my search, tagging and data entry with FindAGrave research. So this is how I do it - how do you do it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LNU8wvRwlw
Thanks Tessa Keough . May I ask, how long had Chrome been loaded on your computer?? Months?? Years?? A time frame may be a valuable tool/knowledge for those of us that do use Chrome (me).
ReplyDeleteHow do I deal with FAG searching, tagging and date entry?
ReplyDeleteIn a word, much more simply than how you do it. Although I know you have your reasons for putting virtually everything as an Event.
I have a Master Source called Find A Grave. To my mind, FAG is not an Event in the person's life, it's a source for information about their life (and death).
Searching I already wrote a post about it. http://bit.ly/22lcykw
Tagging? Not sure what you mean. Right now I'm working by descendant line one at a time. But I have worked through my whole database before looking for anyone Not Living and untagged as having an FAG citation. Once in awhile I've thrown in a search for people born between about 1915 and 1925 assuming some of them may no longer be with us.
Data Entry I choose the FAG Master Source for name/birth/death/burial information or alternates as applicable, then copy the Memorial number under Detail Information (where I can easily see it in that column and also easily copy it from the Output citation to paste into the FAG search box if I need to go back) and then the actual Text of Source. For instance, 'they' say (and the gravestone says) the birth date is 10 Aug 1911 that goes into Text of Source. I haven't been totally consistent about putting under the Comments about this citation - "marked on the gravestone" to distinguish between the Memorial entry and the gravestone but I should.
Sometimes (often) the memorial says more than the gravestone (locations, for instance) AND because they're added to FAG by different people.
Sometimes the memorial entry and the gravestone say (wildly) different things. I compare this against other sources. Or may put one or the other as an alternate birth or death event.
After I download an image, I add metadata ... the memorial number immediately using XnView ... so I can go back later in the day and work through the images I've collected that day. I add keywords (people's names), cemetery name and location, photographer's name, copyright and email address and the source as, of course, Find A Grave.
Or I leave my Photo Mechanic window open and toggle back and forth as I add the metadata.
At the present time, I have 3,912 people cited with FAG citations in Legacy. I have 2,902 FAG images; 303 of those are portraits (Yes! Sometimes FAG is a source for faces) rather than gravestones.
In other words, 66% of my people with FAG citations have gravestone images; about 2,600. Altogether I have 3,065 gravestone images from a variety of sources. Plus the ones I haven't filed yet today and others that are bookmarked for processing. But, as you can see from the numbers, most of them came from Find A Grave.