If you are like me, the amount of time that you have to spend on your family tree research is limited. This means that it is important to develop a filing/storage system that is straight forward, and doesn't consume to much of your valuable research time. I think it is important that you choose a filing system that suits you and works for you. You are the person who has to work with it.
Operation Paper Control was on!!!!
What an adventure!!! When I had allotted the amount of time I would take to do this I had not considered the time I would waste being side tracked by the little bits of information I rediscovered in letters, on the back of photos and in notes I had taken. Having a deadline kept me reasonably focused and I resisted the temptation to wander too far from the task at hand.
Much to my husbands delight, I finally sorted all the documentation into the four "Family" boxes!! He now had space to watch the footy in peace. The next step was to work my way through each "Family" Box. sorting the information into documentation that supported "Birth", Death" and Marriages", Census, Newspaper articles, photos.
Initially, I sat on the floor of our lounge Room with four boxes marked "Shepherd", "Herbert", "Smith" and "Hewson". These were the four main branches of our family tree. Legs crossed, sneezing from all the dust, I slowly made my way through the boxes of documents, photos, notes, letters, newspaper cuttings and other bits and pieces that I had collected over the last 15-20 years. I then proceeded to sort all the information I had collected into these four boxes.
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