It’s ten months since I recorded my progress with the CurryAus surname study. I last wrote about my experiment with the import of my data from Family Historian into the Legacy software program so that I could use the feature in Legacy to connect with and share and extract data with Familysearch. This was quite an easy process that took me a couple of weeks.
However, when I looked at the messiness and inconsistencies of some of the data I had imported from Familysearch , I realised the folly of my ways. I experimented by exporting a gedcom from Legacy and importing it into a new Family Historian project but, on examination, found that the amount of effort required to clean up the imported data was just too great.
I shelved the Legacy experiment and retreated to my Family Historian project realising that the best solution for me was to search the Familysearch Family Tree for Australian Currys, check the sources attached to those records and then manually enter selected records into my database.
Apart from the foray into Familysearch I have been tinkering with my database adding extra entries to my CurryAus Resource Progress spreadsheet which I wrote about here. Keeping a record of my progress on this spreadsheet saves me from repeating searches and allows me to relieve the tedium of concentrating on one resource at a time.
While I have added many extra entries the CurryAus database hasn’t grown enormously because when I confirm that two entries belong to one person I am able to merge those entries. There are currently 9794 entries in the database but, as I merge more entries this will likely remain static.
I enjoy tinkering with the CurryAus project and taking a break from my other geneactivities to try and link up the various Curry family groups in Australia. I hope, in the future, to be able to post the CurryAus data online.
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