Help. I am trying to come up with a file system for filing geneological data by person.

[rhett o rick]

Any suggestions.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. You could try this..

Free Color-coded Genealogy
Research Filing System

This free resource will walk you through a very easy to follow process for organizing your genealogy research.
http://barrysblog.mygenshare.com/lunch_and_learn/color_codes

I've been using OneNote to finally get my stuff organized, and it's going pretty well

[rhett o rick]

2. Thank you. nm

[rhett o rick]

3. Which template in OneNote do you use? The other thing hasnt sent me a response yet. nm

[Viva_La_Revolution]

6. just the blank one

I name the notebook with the Surname, then a section for each person. Each person has a page for birth, death, military, etc.
I use the first section (FAUBEL Tree) as a clipboard, anything I find gets recorded there, then I can move it to the correct person after I've verified the info.

example




I haven't used the color coding system, but I do remember it took a few days to get the email

[rhett o rick]

7. This is very helpful, thanks. The names on the tabs, George, Amali, Coroline, Rudol, etc. what

order are they in? Siblings together then the father and his siblings? Or some thing else?

[Viva_La_Revolution]

10. George, then his wife, then each child in order of birth.

Then I linked Edward Julius (George's son and my GGrandfather) to a new notebook with him as the head, his wive(s) and children.

and so on..

It works especially well for collecting all those little bits and pieces of info found on the net, or I can paste in full documents like birth certificates

[rhett o rick]

11. Thanks again. That's very helpful. nm

[Viva_La_Revolution]

12. You're welcome. nt :)

[Rosie1223]

9. Thanks for posting

I may have to revisit using OneNote.

[Rosie1223]

4. I have 2 sets of files, 1 by surname and 1 by county

I found it too much to keep by specific person as I had so many people. Also I would need duplicates of census records for father & son / husband & wife which I found wasteful.

County records are, obviously, county-wide lists that may have multiple family information. That way they are easy to find when I have a new surname to look up.

I would be interested in learning how others are using One Note. I quit because I wasn't sure how to print or export to send info to others.

[rhett o rick]

5. How do you subdivide by surname? nm

[Rosie1223]

8. I'm trying chronologically at the moment.

But mostly just jumbled together in the folder. Perfection not achieved.