Initial genealogy skill

genealogy/skills/genealogy-methodology/templates/journal-entry.md

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+# Research Journal Entry Template
+
+Append this structure to the Research Journal note in Librarian. Each day gets a `## YYYY-MM-DD` heading. Each session within a day gets a `### HH:MM` subheading.
+
+---
+
+```
+## YYYY-MM-DD
+
+### HH:MM — [Short Descriptive Title]
+
+**Goal:** [What you set out to do this session]
+
+**Searched:**
+- [Collection/source] — [pages/range covered] — [found X / nothing relevant]
+- [Collection/source] — [pages/range covered] — [result]
+
+**Found:**
+- [Key finding] — [[Source Note Title]]
+- [Key finding] — [[Source Note Title]]
+
+**Not Found (Negative Evidence):**
+- [Expected to find X in Y but did not] — [[Source Note Title]]
+
+**New Leads:**
+- [Lead discovered that warrants follow-up]
+
+**Target List Updates:**
+- Added [Name] — [reason, source where identified]
+- Added [Name] — [reason]
+
+**Notes:**
+[Unstructured space. Hunches, observations, patterns noticed, things that don't fit
+elsewhere but shouldn't be lost. "I noticed that..." and "I wonder if..." belong here.
+Theory and supposition live here, not on source or person notes.]
+
+**Open Questions:**
+- [question] [Specific unanswered question from this session]
+
+**Tasks:**
+- [todo] [Specific next action from this session]
+
+**Session Close:**
+- Unfinished: [What was in progress when session ended]
+- Next: [What the next session should start with]
+- Blocking: [Access issues, missing records, need user input, or "None"]
+```
+
+---
+
+## Conventions
+
+- **[question]** and **[todo]** tags are searchable across the notebook. Use them consistently.
+- **Notes** section is deliberately unstructured. Don't skip it. Hunches recorded here have led to breakthroughs in this project.
+- **Session Close** is mandatory. It's the handoff to the next session, which may be a different Claude instance with no memory of this one.
+- **Negative evidence** is research data. "Searched and didn't find" is as important as "searched and found." Always record it.
+- Append entries within a day using `### HH:MM` subsections. New day = new `## YYYY-MM-DD`.