do you document your finds?

[GRAY GHOST]

hello everyone. do you document your finds? and if so, how? how important do you think it is? do you think what you document now will be relevant later on? i went for many years without documenting a thing. as i get older, i've noticed my memory isn't as good as it used to be. i'm paying dearly for it now. i finally started to write everything down and trying to preserve the pieces in my collection during the winter months. it's the old game called catch - up. i understand treasurefiend has a good spreadsheet for finds, but i'm not ready for that yet. your thoughts on this matter, please. hh,

 

[tabdog]

Hay Gray Ghost,

I have not loged much of anything.

I have some info on sites, but not finds.

I wish I had just kept my finds.

My best coin finds came over 24 years ago.

I can not locate any of it. Not even my old Technatics.

HH,

 

[Beale]

I doccument my finds on a per hunt basis. I created a counter and add to it each hunt. Another less techy device I use is a 3x5 notebook. I write all my finds in one of these books. They are cheap and I can write it down very quickly. I even record all the clad, Beale.

 

[Mat in MA]

I use three different kinds of logs. You may think this is overkill but they each have something different to offer.

One is "Clad Counter" (http://www.terrybullard.com/clad_counter.html). This also lets you produce and print a report by location, month, year. It's handy and easy to use. I really like this one.

Another is "Treasure Journal". You'll have to do a search look up for this. It's great for listing items, but it's draw back is that you can't print any of the information if you want a hard copy.

The last is just a simple one that I made using Microsoft Excel. It keeps track of the coins, jewelry and other finds. I can enter the amounts and I can print a report anytime I want.

There you have it. Three different types that all work well using your computer. As others have said you can just use a pen, paper and a journal to record your entries if you like.

Happy Hunting!!!

 

[Pap]

saves me a lot of writing!
Pap

 

[dahut]

I used to. I kept a "Site Log" and in it were details about the sites I visited, and the finds I made there.
I had files on all the sites I had visited, map research, leads etc.
There was a separate section with find totals for coins, jewelry and items of interest.
It was all housed in a three ring binder and in file card boxes.
I was quite pedantic about it, even obsessed. Yet in all the years of anal record keeping, I never did find Eldorado. Hope springs eternal, they say, but sooner or later every well dries up.

So, I have become more casual about it all now, realizing that I cant take it with me, either way. I still have the files, though, and refer to them from time to time.

 

[rmptr]