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General => Technical Help => Family History Programs, Tree Organisation, Presentation => Topic started by: Jacrista on Monday 02 December 13 20:44 GMT (UK)
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I'm getting bogged down with paper!
I started off my research on FindMyPast but have now moved on to Ancestry, I've been printing off all births, marriages, deaths and census's and filing them in folders for each side of the family, I have about six large ring binders now, but I think I must be getting this wrong, does anyone else print off all these and keep them?
I was showing one of the folders to my sister today and I realised that it was so difficult to follow, even I was getting confused and it's me that's done it!!
I have the main person, his birth, marriage, death,(papers I've printed off) then his wife, plus her bits, then their census's, followed by their children and their 'bits', and when they've had children I go onto them, when they've been done, I'm then back to the original persons next child and so on, hope I'm making sense, but it's just too complicated, but as I said, only realised that today when trying to explain it to my sister, I hadn't looked at the folder for a while so I was looking at it with fresh eyes really and was so disappointed that it was so confusing, so can anyone suggest something better, maybe I shouldn't keep all these print-offs and have some sort of record sheet with this info on and just have these in the folder, it would certainly cut down on the paper that's for sure, so any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks
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I know the feeling....I'd appreciate some guidance on how best to put the paperwork side together. Perhaps someone will show us the way. ::)
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I also like to keep copies of all certificates etc.
I have one ring binder for my parents with all certs photos stries etc.
Then a ring binder for her Maternal tree
This starts with my grandmother certs ,photos, stories etc. Then using dividers I move on to g grandparents , 2g grandparents, 3g grandparents and so on in the same way.
I also have a separate ring binder for maternal siblings.
I follow the same system for her Paternal tree
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Not sure if this helps but I love taking out my "books" and flicking through my family story.
(Always seem to find something to research further)
Good luck
Margaret