Contents:
- Preface - Part 1
- Preface - Part 2
Organizing the Paper Files
- Turn One Pile into Three Piles
- Notes and Documents
- Compiled Sheets
- 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
- Control the Sheet Size
- Separate by Surname
- Separate Surname Sheets by the Place of Origin
- 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, paper, 44 pp.
ISBN: 9781628593648
121-FR0428
