Christine - I also use the MRIN system and love it. Even if the family numbers are not sequential I have no problem locating any members. My info has been collected over many years so that contributes to the distance from parent to child and so on. I have a prodigious number of paper records collected over the years and file them in loose-leaf protectors behind my Family Group Sheets. Like to be able to refer to them with the FGS. Now, I am only saving digital copies of most. I never thought of storing my online stuff in this fashion. Thanks for the tip.
Kay ----- Original Message ----- From: "gen_quest" <gen_qu...@yahoo.ca> To: <LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 8:39 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] MRIN filing They remain filed under the parent's MRIN until such time as they marry and have a MRIN of their own. If they do not marry then all documents pertaining to them remain filed under the parent's MRIN. ________________________________ From: Paula Ryburn <paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 2:50:38 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] MRIN filing Adult/grown children who remain unmarried but have moved out of the family home go where? 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: gen_quest <gen_qu...@yahoo.ca> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Sun, February 26, 2012 8:55:59 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] MRIN filing Tony, I also use the MRIN filing system and have set up online folders for each marriage. Following the advice from the Legacy user who originally devised this system, I renumber MRINs according to my 4 ancestral lines as follows: My maternal grandfather is MRIN 1000-1999 My maternal grandmother is MRIN 2000-2999 My maternal grandfather is MRIN 3000-3999 My paternal grandmother is MRIN 4000-4999 Census records are filed under the MRIN of the head of the household. Unmarried children are filed under the MRIN of their parents When a child marries, I move the birth certificate into the MRIN folder for the marriage and add the marriage certificate and any census records or other information during the time of the marriage. If a child marries for a second time, the marriage has a different MRIN number under which I include the marriage certificate, census and other info during the time of this marriage and finally the death certificates. The documents are numbered e.g. MRIN-1, -2, -3 etc. For each line I have a binder(s) for paper documents, filed under the MRIN number. If I do not have any documents for a marriage then there is no divider for that number in the binder. At one time I printed out the census records but no longer do that to cut back on the size of the binders. Hope this helps. Christine 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 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 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
