Thx, Rich. That's what I like about this list. I've received suggestions that cover the entire spectrum! I like to work on my research "by family" and I tend to share information with others "by family line" ... could not imagine having to pull out almost every binder to show a cousin the relevent original documents for our common ancestor.
I'm using color-coded binders right now, not manila folders--and six colors instead of four. And it's comments like yours that keep my perspective: When I'm feeling over-whelmed, I remember that my database size is small compared to many of you! ;) --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 Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams ----- Original Message ---- From: RICHARD SCHULTHIES <fourpa...@verizon.net> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Tue, September 6, 2011 12:32:52 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy News Archives----was: Source Name Filing System I started with manila folders by Surname, and that is where my documents still are. I have 6 four drawer file cabinets. I now have some surnames using over a dozen manila folders. Compose your filing system the way you understand best. Don't worry about how others do it, unless you like the same suggestions they give. Rich in LA CA - On Mon, 9/5/11, Paula Ryburn <paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > From: Paula Ryburn <paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net> > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy News Archives----was: Source Name Filing System > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Date: Monday, September 5, 2011, 9:32 PM > Whew! I am nowhere near ready to go > straight alphabetical even within document > type, let along that just assign a number to the document > approach! All my > information is family-oriented and that's how I think of my > ancestors (family > groups), so I'm going to keep things that way. Thanks > though for all the > details. > --Paula in Texas > <snip> Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ 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
