I've now created 3 virtual cemeteries and still keep clicking to add ancestors to each one. In Part 1 of this series, I found out how extremely fast and easy it is to create a virtual cemetery on Find a Grave. I don't want future generations to forget where our ancestors are buried. rtf so I can open it in Word and then sort as I please, choosing to sort by any of the columns. Importantly, I was able to save this list in my choice of formats.
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A bit too much detail, but I expect to learn how to refine the list as I gain experience. It was initially organized alphabetically by surname, showed birth and death dates, and showed in detail each person's residence and key facts. In this case, the list for Ohio ran for a dozen pages. I could have narrowed the parameters to everyone in Cleveland, Ohio, for instance. I set the parameters for everyone in that particular tree (my husband's Wood family).
Generating a RootsMagic "Who Was There" ListĪs an experiment, I opened my RootsMagic7 genealogy software and looked for a report that might give me a head start in grouping ancestors who were (1) alive in 1950 and (2) living in a certain area.Īt top is a screen shot showing me preparing to generate a list of "Who Was There" in Ohio in 1950.
The catch is, I need some idea of where each ancestor was residing in 1950. No indexing will be available on April 1, 2022, so the only way to find these ancestors at first will be to browse enumeration districts where they were living. Census in less than a year, I'm preparing to look for ancestors I'm particularly interested in. With my eye on the public release of the 1950 U.S.
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