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Daily Journal

You will become confused very quickly by the many sources you’ll contact or check into during your research. To help you remember your activities, list everything you do in this daily journal.

The activity could be something as simple as calling your grandmother asking for information on her sister or writing a letter to an aunt requesting missing data. The activity can also be as complex as spending all day in an archive looking through census, microfilms or military records.

You will find this journal handy to remind you to send second requests should information requested not have been received yet. Remember, your own notes can become confusing, so make your comments clear and accurate so that your notes make sense to you even months after the fact.

If you are interested in knowing how much time you’ve dedicated to your project, indicate the time you started and ended each activity.

Not all the information must be written on one line; use several lines in the activity column to make your comments very clear.

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