What0101, I'd like to hear more details of what you're trying to achieve, and I'm sure many others will as well.
Martin
This week we are doing Genealogical Proof Standard, so I am working on trying to make a proof argument.
In this case, I know my great great grandmother Honoria Stack had a sister named Catherine who married someone named Collins. In their town, there were two women named Catherine Stack who married two men named Thomas Collins within 4 years of one another. So I am trying to write an argument explaining why, with footnotes to the evidence, I have concluded that *my* Catherine Stack is one of the couples rather than the other, and how I have decided to assign the children born to Catherine and Thomas to one couple or the other.
The idea is that if you make a decision that may make perfect sense to you, but may not to the outside world who sees your work, you should write a proof argument to "show your work." In this case, the only other person who has this person on a family tree on Ancestry made the opposite conclusion I made. So I thought I'd try and write a proof argument and send it to that person.
But the process is laborious...takes forever, and the results that I have so far are so boring that it's basically unreadable. I think part of the goal is to make it readable, so that other researchers will take it seriously, but I am struggling both in proving my point and making it interesting.
