Marina, This is what I do as I sent out in response to someone a couple of months ago:
I file all of my paper documents in hanging files. Because so many documents can pertain to multiple people and families, it's difficult to file by surname without having multiple copies of the papers. I file my documents by location and type. For example, copies of birth records from Devon, England are in a hanging file called England, Devon, Birth. The documents themselves are in protective sleeves labeled this way: ENG DEVON BIR 001, ENG DEVON BIR 002, etc. Same thing with Census (ENG DEVON CEN 001), Death (ENG DEVON DEA 001) and so on. For records from the US, they are stored as NY NIAGARA BIR 001, NY ERIE CEN 001, etc. for New York State, Niagara County, Birth, etc. The individual document labels are used as the FILE IDs in Legacy. That way, any person mentioned on a census, gets the FILE ID in the source detail for the appropriate census record in my file. Same for all other documents for which I have copies. This really works well for me. Mary -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marina Garrison Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 9:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [LegacyUG] File Id# I haven't utilized the file id# within Legacy yet, but am doing a major overhaul of my sources including re-filing them all. I am interested in using the file id# feature and plan to put each source document in a plastic protector and stick a sticker to it with the file id# on it. My question is: the sample file id#s given are expressed as Drawer A, Item 1. I had planned to do something similar such as: Correspondence, Item 1 or Certificate, Item 1. The only problem is that there are so many kinds of documents (Census, Books, Certificates, Memorial Cards, Correspondence, Wills, Indexes etc etc) and having them all listed will become unmanageable. I would like to get some suggestions from people using this feature as to how you do it. Thanks, Marina Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
