What did you do with all the Notes you made?

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Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 26,104 Send Message	Gwyn in Kent	Report	12 Feb 2012 17:01
	I have kept the notebooks which I used in Record Offices and they are useful for checking details and lists of where I searched ( even with a nil result) O.H used identical books and his are useless. Can't even tell which family he is looking at, all these years on. eg. John and Mary had William, James and Henry....no dates, places or when or where he recorded this so it's very much a guessing game. Spiral notebooks tended to be used for scribing oral information, eg. at family gatherings or over the phone and they are a bit muddled, I must admit, but with a bit of thought I can usually decipher them. So to answer your question, ... I've kept them. Gwyn
Member Since: February 2005 Posts: 987 Send Message	grannyfranny	Report	12 Feb 2012 13:31
	I've got all the notebooks I used in the searchrooms all those years ago. And sometimes I look at them, for odd notes, They were from the original records. I do have other books I jot on now, but I try not to use scraps of paper.
	Researching: Freeman of Berwick upon Tweed
Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 1,190 Send Message	Alan	Report	12 Feb 2012 13:15
Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 1,190 Send Message	I've just thrown 6 untidy memo pads away full of comments and references which upon reading again only confused me. If I want detail, I'll search again.