I've read Geoff Rasmussen's tutorial on Family History Archival Notebooks
and believe his system of filing by MRIN will work just fine for me. My
family discoveries have not occurred in orderly fashion; hence, a set of
parents and their offspring may be scattered across several books due to
widely separated MRIN numbers. I don't see this as a problem because of the
cross-referencing on various charts/reports. I like having family group
records and source documentation together for easy review.
Geoff, you state in the tutorial that we should contact you with
questions -- so these are for you. I am confused about handling multiple
marriages. You address this issue with two separate statements: (1) "If the
person married several times, all documents are placed behind the
direct-line family connection,." and (2) "If the person married several
times, but there is no direct-line (such as a grandparent) relationship, the
documents are filed behind each individual marriage the record applied to
with documents about the person's death filed behind the Family Group Record
representing the last marriage."
#1 appears to apply to my mother who had a child by her first marriage (me)
and none by the next two. I assume I am to file all of her family group
records behind the first marriage since this is my direct line. What if she
had a child with each marriage? Each of these children would be in a direct
line but with a different father - how is this handled? I don't understand
#2 at all. To whom does this apply? Perhaps you could expand on the two
"rules" above.
Thank you!
Kay Fordham
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