I maintain that a good genealogist is going to collect a lot of "unrelated" material in the search if being thorough. After all, one doesn't know whether they'll turn out to be connected on an earlier generation, or "the kid nobody remembered to tell me about". I put copies of this type in a file folder labeled by type of source: census 1850 Lanc co, PA; census 1860 Union co, TN; marriage records Grainger co, TN. Then if I want to see if I have something I can go do the applicable folders & search through them. I tend to xerox copies of known relatives & suspected ones in the census because of the frequently vast amount of clues beyond the first three or four spaces--and I don't want to miss them. Marriage records, I just hand copy all the names & dates for everybody that has the right name into a notebook & label the note book with the source & xerox just the known relatives (have to draw the line somewhere, you know). It's easy to underline with different colored markers the various surnames I'm searching for--when I get home from the researching. Then I can look quickly through a notebook or stack of xerox copies and tell which family I'm looking for by the pink, or yellow, etc. But yes, you're going to get a lot of unrelated notes, if you're doing the job well. That way you're less likely to miss someone. Karen