Karen Clifford just did a filing system webinar. It can be found at www.fileyourpapers.com
There is also a webinar about the color code system that Mary E. V. Hill created as put into place as part of Legacy. http://familyrootsorganizer.com/lessons/charts.htm <--- Look at the Lessons Tab. FamilySearch has adapted the system. Mary E. V. Hill is a Legacy user. http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/RG/guide/ALL_REF_DOC_-_Organizing_Paper_Files.ASP Use my system. Really simple. Throw everything into a box ! When that box gets full, I go buy another box, and so on. If aunt Helen would like to see the death cert., I just tell her the box and have it! Tim On 8/31/2011 8:30 PM, Paula Ryburn wrote: > Wow--that might do the trick. I feel like I'm getting hung up on physical vs > digital. Thx for sharing, Charles. > --Paula in Texas > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Charles Apple<[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wed, August 31, 2011 5:41:31 PM > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Source Name Filing System > > Paula, > > I am not suggesting this is right for everyone, however, it's just the way > that > suits me after 20+ years of hard research. Everything I get is filed, whether > it > is a digital image on hard disk, photograph, hard copy of Birth Certificates, > etc., or anything else. All folders have a number, whether in a filing > cabinet, > computer hard drive, three ring binders, or archival boxes. Each file, > document, > photograph, digital image, etc. is filed in a numbered folder. An Excel > Spreadsheet acts as the Master Index. Locations are things like filing > cabinets, > computer hard drives, three ring binders, etc. The Excel Spread records the > Surname, Given names of the individual, along with the location number, folder > number, and document number within that folder, along with a description of > what > that document is. > > I also have a column in each record row for Search tags to help in locating a > particular document. Using this system, it really makes no difference where a > document is filed. I can easily find it by Searching the Master Index in > Excel, > going to the location and retrieving the document. > > Charles > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
