Genealogical Document Organizing: Paper Files to Computer Files, Featuring: Organizing Your Electronic Genealogical Documents

$12.95

Contents:

  • Preface - Part 1
  • Preface - Part 2
  • Organizing the Paper Files
  • Turn One Pile into Three Piles
    1. Notes and Documents
    2. Compiled Sheets
    3. Research Aids
  • Separate the Notes and Documents
  • Problems Filing Notes and Documents
  • Three Types of People (Ancestors, Collaterals, Suspicious)
  • Solving the Paper Collecting Problem
  • Rules for Saving Notes and Documents
    1. Control the Sheet Size
    2. Separate by Surname
    3. Separate Surname Sheets by the Place of Origin
    4. Give Every Sheet a Page Number
  • Back to the Pile of Paper
  • Retrieving Notes and Compiling Family Sheets
  • Preparing a List for a Family Sheet
  • Example of a List of Sources (Back of Family Sheet)
  • Other Indexing Options
  • Paper Files to Computer Files
  • Tracking Genealogical Events
  • Genealogical Event Database (GED)
  • Example of GED Designed for Computers
  • Let the Computer Do the Work
  • Paper Filing to a Computer Filing System
  • Organizing Your Genealogical Electronic Documents
  • What You Will Need Besides Your Computer
  • Electronic Filing
  • Surname Folders, Country Folders and Family Folders
  • What Constitutes Your Family?
  • Family Folder
  • Contents Sheet
  • What About Photos?
  • Mylio Photos

William Dollarhide and Leland K. Meitzler

2023, 5.5" x 8.5", paper, 44 pp.

ISBN: 9781628593648

121-FR0428