Prepare your genealogical research (STLM)
You will then have to prepare your genealogical research and build some sort of action plan.
Ancestris allows you to prepare a list of searches to be carried out, sorted by categories and by storage locations.
Search for event dates
The way to conduct genealogical research benefits from the development of genealogy.
- The development of surveys carried out by associations
- The important place taken by collaborative online uploads
- The digitization and online posting of civil and parish registers
Some genealogists in fact carry out their research by entering the dates of events (births, deaths, marriages ...), no longer from the original acts, but from either associative records or trees found on the Internet.
However, it is necessary to systematically verify all these dates by consulting the original acts or their transcription, whether they are paper archives or digitized archives.
Now Ancestris is a powerful and efficient tool to facilitate the management of these searches or verifications.
Whenever you collect a dated event, after entering the event in question, we recommend that you first indicate the origin of this information, its source (genealogical association of such and such, tree found on this web site, etc.).
Then, we suggest that you add a property to this event to remind you to find the original of the deed concerned, or other tasks to be performed.
To do this, you can define a personalized property (example: "_TODO"), which value will be the task to be performed (example: "find the deed.").
The easiest way to do this is to use the Ancestris Gedcom editor. On the first line of properties, right-click to display the Contextual menu and choose the Gedcom Properties List. When the Add Property panel appears, activate the New Label radio button, and, in the box just below, enter a custom label starting with “_” (with, for example, a department name: “ _TODO ”), enter the value“ find the deed ”then validate by pressing <OK>.
Creation of a research sheet
At any time, Ancestris allows you quite easily to build a research sheet summarizing all the sources to check or actions to perform.
To do this, use the To Do List report, via the Tools / Lists and reports menu. When the view is displayed, left column, click on To Do List, then, at the top right, activate the Options tab.
In the Options panel, fill in the box defining the tasks to be searched for by your tag (for example "_TODO"), validate by clicking next to it.
Launch the report. Ancestris offers PDF as an output format by default. If you have few acts, you can choose PDF. Disadvantage: the resulting list is not ranked which might make it un practical over several pages. To easily obtain a list classified by municipality for example, change the file type to “CSV” format instead of “PDF”.
Then open the "* .csv" file in a spreadsheet.
Delete the first header line “Complete list of to-do items” which is unnecessary.
All you have to do then is sort your table on the desired columns.
Your work sheet is sorted by city with the acts to be searched.
You can then create an additional column called "notes" to write down any issue.
With your sorted worksheet, you can now go to the website of the geographic archives repository and look for your deeds city by city.
Recherche des actes notariés aux Archives départementales
Pour rechercher des actes notariés aux Archives départementales, la démarche est la même.
Chaque fois que la date d'un contrat de mariage est indiquée dans le texte d'un mariage, sur un relevé ou sur Généanet, entrez-la dans votre généalogie Ancestris, étiquette « MARC », la date et le lieu, le nom du notaire avec le tag « AGNC ».
Créez une étiquette personnalisée, par exemple “_NOTAIRES36” si vous cherchez dans le département 36.
Paramétrez le rapport vu plus haut en changeant le nom de la balise recherchée par "_NOTAIRES36".
Exécutez votre rapport comme dans l'exemple ci-dessus.
Avec votre belle fiche de travail des notaires, vous pouvez aller aux Archives départementales.
Éventuellement, si les cotes des registres de notaires sont sur Internet, cherchez-les depuis chez vous et ajoutez-les dans une colonne supplémentaire sur votre fiche de calcul.
En procédant ainsi, avec un minimum de préparation, vous aurez préparé efficacement votre travail de contrôle, que ce soit chez vous ou aux Archives, surtout si vous ne faites pas des recherches généalogiques tous les jours et que vous vous retrouvez avec une vingtaine ou une quarantaine d'actes à vérifier.