Category Archives: Organizing Documents

Binders or Folders?

[I am working backwards through Amy Coffin's 52 Weeks of Abundant Genealogy because I wasn't paying attention at the beginning of the year.  This is my entry for week #29...Organizational Tools. Here's one of the things I learned from genealogy.  Everyone has a method for organization that is the WAY THAT THINGS MUST BE DONE.  …

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Computer File Organizing Project Update

A few months back, I blogged about the mess that I had made of my digitized documents on my computer. I have hundreds if not thousands of records in file folders. But, I’m not sure what’s been input, what’s been source, or if they are even in the right folder. I decided it was time …

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This Is Why I Never Get Anything Accomplished

This week as part of my organizing and verifying genealogy document project I started on the McSwegan folder on my computer.  I got several things input which was awesome. Then I hit a mystery.  I found a child noted as nephew in the 1900 Census for Charles McSwegan.  Very few people in this line were …

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