Organisation?!! .....

Miss Poohs · Post by **Miss Poohs** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:28 pm

All the info and certs I've collected over the last few months are starting to get into a muddle.

How do you organise all the info you have collated?

carmentea32 · Post by **carmentea32** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:35 pm

I'm no expert, but I group them by families:
Father and mother's marriage cert. and death certs.
Children's birth and death certs.

If children marry then I take out all their relevant info and place it into a "new" family file.

Hope this helps!

karenc · Post by **karenc** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:39 pm

Great minds think alike. i do the same. i find its the easiest way to keep things organised and relatively easy to find!

Well thats the plan anyway

Karen

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:01 pm

Hi all
My family groupings are all in my software. Tbe BDM info is all in folders, one for each of the 2 main fmailies, and in chronological order within those folders. Separate folders for census too - again arranged by year.

Works for me....when I remember to file things away

Best wishes
Lesley

Miss Poohs · Post by **Miss Poohs** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:32 pm

Thanks everyone, I have some serious sorting out to do.

Post by **emanday** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:59 pm

I've got a different coloured wallet (all now having to be extra capacity) for each of my four grandparents. The way I see it, I am the product of four families. When I download and print out a document I stick on a coloured dot, top right corner, to match the family folder colour.

Inside each folder I have a seperator. Behind that I keep the Birth certs and Death certs of spouses and siblings of my direct line.

The reason for all this apparent organisation and efficiency

...

I HATE FILING

... so I try to make it as painless as possible

P.S. Forgot to mention - I also "dot" the certs, etc... that are not (as yet) proving to be my lot; just in case they turn out to be "someone" later. Separate buff wallet, colour then alpha order