I file my papers by family (I believe it's the system by Mills?), and have a question for those of you who do likewise. I don't wish to change how I file the papers, because I do my research by family.
For a daughter, I have been filing all her papers for events prior to her marriage (e.g., her birth record) in her parent's folder. Then I file all her papers for events after her marriage (including after her husband's death, where applicable) in her marriage folder. I haven't run into a case in my lineage where the widow has remarried, but I would put her papers, beginning with that marriage record, in a new folder for the second marriage. For a son, I had not been doing likewise... or at least I was not consistent. Most times, I put all his papers (including birth record) in his marriage folder, but discovered I had not done so on my current research project; I had filed the birth register in his parents' folder. Further, for most collateral lines (which up until recently I have not been researching), I leave all the other children's papers in the parents' folder. So, my question is this: Where do YOU file the papers for life events prior to marriage? In the parents' folder? Or in their own folder? Follow-up questions: Do you treat sons and daughters the same? Do you treat grown, unmarried children the same? Thanks in advance for your thoughtful replies, --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 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
