Anatomy of An UpDate
Publisher: Floyd Thomas Pratt F.H.C., M.A.G.I.
Published: 2010 revised 2015
Place of publication: Aurora, Arapahoe County, Colorado
Format: pdf
Number of pages: 12
Description: Many times I refer to my record keeping needing an “update” before I can prepare the information for distribution. I thought you may want to know why and how I do this “updating”. Several of you do not understand what that entails or what I even mean by “updating”.

When I began keeping and collecting documents and sources 40 years ago, I would put them into my genealogy program in the notes section for an individual in somewhat of a haphazard order. I usually quit researching that individual and left the information as is…until some time in the future when I needed to “clean-up” the records. 

Until there was an inquiry from someone, I usually didn't update the records. However, since I have amassed such a collection of over 50,000 names in my database, it appears I touch on many researchers’ family with some of my information. Therefore…the need to update.
Table of contents: title: UpDating; title: Why Update?; title: Before Updating; title: After Update; title: For further instructions on completing Cradle to Grave Profiles (C2G) see the following website…