Sally, I almost gasped but found myself chuckling. I can see where you're coming from on that. However, I tend to research by family, working with a unit to find siblings, parents, etc. and move backward through my line. I like to have all the relevant documents together. Also, I use binders instead of folders. And I use 6 colors instead of 4... possibly someone is gasping at that. In fact, my daughter and I were considering moving to 8 colors, because I have gathered enough on her daddy's father's line to go to 2 binders... of course, she would like the new color to be pink!
Do you keep all your census images together? How are they sorted? Or do you not print them out? Thx. --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind Hopkins Hughes Hurdle Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Sanford Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, February 25, 2012 8:06:29 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] MRIN filing I put ALL birth certs, newspaper birth announcements, etc. in one huge folder. Likewise with death certs, marriages, etc. I know some of you will gasp...just like my genealogy buddy does. LOL But I know EXACTLY where to look instantly. Everything is named in alphabetical order and then date order. I consider it as if it were a repository at a library. Legacy does the work of pulling the files from the repository. Why make life difficult trying to decide where a file goes when Legacy does it for you? Sally Miller Hindley In a message dated 2/25/2012 7:48:25 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: 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? There must be an obvious, recommended way to handle this. Any advice would be appreciated. thanks Tony 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 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
