The information I have gotten from this news group has been a big help as I get deeper and deeper into genealogy and would like to thank all who have helped me get this far. I have reached the point where I have a lot of the documentation files to support my research. Each time I find information in a book, or an online source, I have been saving that information as an efile, most are in the PDF format. For books each file contain the title page, the page with the publication information, and each page that has information of interest. Where I have found interesting information on a webpage I have just printed the page to a PDF document. On top of all of these files are the pictures of gravestones, ancestral homes, etc. When I get hardcopy information, I scan it and store it with the electronically obtained information. I started out creating family subdirectories, and storing the different kinds of files in their own subdirectories. ie. Barlet/ census data; Barlet/documents; etc. I use Family Tree maker to collect my genealogical information and have no problem in getting from an person's death to the documentation supporting the data for the death. However in going the other way, everything is dependent on me remembering that file XYZ contains information on GreatX fathers draft records. How do others working in genealogy organize all of this supporting documentation? I have thought about a something like dBase or Access but want something that is software independent? Thank you in advance for any information that you may share. Keith nuttle <keith_nuttle@sbcglobal.net>