How to File Family History Paperwork?

[kerryb]

Ewan

Thank you for your comments about my website.  It combined two interests - websites and family history. 

One useful tip that another rootschatter told me if you only look at your family history on a sporadic basis is to print out any information you find such as lookups on familyhistoryonline or familysearch.org or other such sites so that when you pick up the tree again you don't repeat the same lookups.  Something I have done a couple of times even ordered one certificate twice.

Now I am trying to be more organised. 

Kerry

[aghadowey]

Also a good idea to make a note of what sources were looked at with no results to save on duplication but things, especially on the Internet, can get updated and there have been times when I re-checked a database and found additional records that haven't been there in a previous search.

[Ewan]

I make notes of what I have looked at, but the problem is they are all on 'bits of paper' this is what I need to organise and write out properly and then put in their particular part of my folders.  That's a good point about re checking databases as well.  I looked for an ancestor on familysearch a number of years ago now and it wasn't there, but only this year it was found by a fellow rootschat.  The thing is I didn't realise that particular website was updated, so it does pay to go back.

Ewan

[Berlin-Bob]

I find a spreadsheet is useful for writing up data from bits of paper. 
I can enter each snippet or "piece of paper" seperately, and then use the filters there to "gather" up all the bits and pieces about particular individuals.

And you can tailor the columns to fit your requirements.

there are two topics about this in the list of topics that kerryb mentioned.

Bob

[Ewan]

Thank you Bob, I like that idea as well.  I will take a look at those websites again.

Thanks to all again.
Ewan