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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

Thanks Terry, that's just what I wanted to hear, simple and precise, just right for a thicko like me LOL, you've made my day!!

Oh dear, I'm even more confused  do you mean then that my 5 x grandfather, his brother will be my 6 x uncle?  so I always add another 'grt' more than the grandfathers (or whoever) has got?
The rule that 'Lostris' speaks of, I've never heard of that, is that what it means?
Thanks, Jacrista

Hi all, I wonder if I could run something by you again about the Darling family?

I've gathered together all the records concerning the info you helped me with the other day (thanks again) and there's one or two things I could do with advice on if you could help.

On the 1851 census 'keyboard86' suggested that George or Mary could have been married before as there is a 'George Etherington' living with them as 'Father in law' well I dug around a bit and found a record that a 'John Darling. B. 1801' was married to an 'Ann Etherington' with a father 'George Etherington' but I can't for the life of me find out who this 'John Darling' is, its too early to be the John mentioned along with 'George & Mary' on the 1871 census, also can't find any records to indicate previous marriages as 'keyboard86' suggested, so why it says 'Father-in-law' on the census I don't know, I guess it could be a mistake, any ideas?

Also I can't get my head around this change of name for Edwin, Edward John or what ever he likes to call himself, Herbert definatly has his father as 'John' on his marriage cert, so if this 'John' is 'Edwin' why would he start to call himself 'John' when he has a brother 'John' as on the 1871 census, I can't get to grips with that bit it does make me wonder if indeed I'm on the right track, what do you think?
Jacrista.

 Hi Keyboard86, think I must be missing something here, but I just assumed that George Etherington, father in law, was Marys Father, is that not right then?