On 26/02/2012 00:47, Tony Rolfe wrote: > I've started storing scanned or downloaded images etc. in folders named > MRIN His name and Her name. I get a lot of folders, but it seems > consistent with the recommendation for paper filing given by Legacy. > > For those who use a similar system, either electronic or paper-based, > how do you handle people who don't have marriages? > > I've been putting children's birth information in their parent's folder > and then creating a folder for the child when they marry. If a child > leaves home and appears on the census, for example, still unmarried and > not with their parents, I put that data in the parent's folder, with a > name which suggests the child. E.g. "1881 Census (M0123).jpg" for the > main family's census image, but "1881 Census - Mary Ann (I02345).jpg" > for the child's individual entry. > > My problem is what to do when the child marries. Should I move the > child's information into the new MRIN folder, even though a lot of the > info doesn't relate to that marriage? Should I have Individual folders > "RIN Individual Name" for stuff specific to that child? That wuld mean > a huge number of folders. > > What about second marriages, or what about a previous marriage being > discovered? > All the inconsistencies you point out are the very reason why I don't use the MRIN filing system. There are so many reasons for a person not being married or not connected to their parents' marriage/partnership that it just seems a nonsense to me.
I keep all my paper records in binders according to the nature of the document - eg correspondence, press, certificates, web pages. Within the binders each sheet (or set of pages) has a reference which is recorded in the appropriate field in the Source Citation. Within each document each mention of the name of an individual in my family file is annotated in the margin with the UserID (which happens to be my family code+RIN.) I don't need to keep multiple copies of any document, I don't need ever to move documents from one binder to another and I can easily and swiftly track a document from Source Citation to binder or from binder to individual in Legacy. -- Jenny M Benson 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
