A combined process is my goal.
DIGITAL
All inherited photos, documents etc have been scanned and I am in the process on cataloging them into my digital folder system. Read Me PDF and Word Docs are included in each section explaining how the system works.
There are video files in MP4 format where I explain what is what and give an illustrated talk about specific family members.
There are a series of PDF / Word Docs / Publisher Docs on each family line and on individuals
The folder layout is Genealogy > then 20+ sub folders with the first ten being as per Ancestry’s search results Filter Categories.
The Main Read me file has the Ancestry user name, password and eMail address used (gmail) together with its password.
Gedcoms are included
SOFTWARE
I use Roots Magic which has a mobile version running off a USB memory stick, this device also has the Genealogy folder and all the digital content.
HARDWARE
Multiple copies of the USB stick exist plus all the digital files are on a USB hard drive.
PAPERWORK
Three folders, Photographs, Family History and Stories and Certificates.
Plus the inherited Family Box of trinkets, medals, albums, notebooks and all include Paper Booklet versions of the PDF’ files mentioned prior.
STORAGE
All the above is stored within a metal Trunk that would not look out of place in any home.
FINALLY
The USB memory sticks will be distributed to Cousins in due course.
Its the best process that I could come up with and currently I am working on a Book, not a genealogy reference book, but one that could in-still in my younger relatives an interest in their family as it will include stories, descriptions of their direct predecessors and their lives and how we go back hundreds of years.
