Tony, For children who marry, I leave the pre-marriage documents behind the parents' FGR (I don't use folders). Of course, at the moment, the only people I have documents for about their childhood that I *might* consider moving with the child are my grandparents, so I know exactly where to look for them. I mean, if you are talking about a not-so-well-known ancestor or distant relative, you might not be able to pull together their whole life as easily from TWO places, so you might consider moving the childhood documents into the new marriage folder.
I don't do much research on those people not in my lines, and they all married (or at least partnered) to produce the next generation... on down to me. So, I haven't run into the unmarried grown child situation... I mean, I don't have any specific documents for them that need to be filed. I have a few 2nd marriages, and so far they have been my male ancestors re-marrying, and I think in every case I descend through the first marriage. So... I just print a second FGR for the 2nd marriage and keep it behind the first (same surname makes that approach easy). Additionally, I haven't yet collected much on the 2nd marriages since they are not in my line...... and I haven't had the urge yet to look for 1/2 cousins anywhere. If I descended from the 2nd marriage I might do it the same way, since they're male / same surname. If it was the female remarrying, I still think I would file the "extra" marriage (depending on from which one I descended) behind the "important" marriage and put them both under the "important" surname. At least until I had a significant amount of data on the "extra" marriage, accessing it a lot or getting cumbersome. Then I guess I would be forced to put the "extra" marriage in its own surname "folder"... again, I use binders with surname tabs. --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: Tony Rolfe <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, February 25, 2012 6:47:33 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] MRIN filing 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
