Edith, You have written: I have notebooks for each family's family group sheets. I keep the documents in a notebook by family. I use the plastic page holders for the documents. As I'm accumulating more paper, I am thinking about just putting them in file folders by type of document (Ex. census) and by family. This is my weak spot. I guess one problem is that it is more fun to play on the computer than to do the actual filing. Maybe I need to print out a list of the subfolders in my genealogy folder and use that as a guide for filing the actual papers. How do the rest of you deal with the paper? --------------- Let me tell you a trick I learned - I have made a pedigree chart and numbered each name on the chart according to rule. Then I made a file folder for each number. Men are always even numbers and women are always odd. I only have folders for men at this point. My father is 2, his father 4, his father 8, etc. If you have trouble on the numbering system let me know. Then for the information I gather for that man's family I file within that folder. If the folder becomes too full I split it up as such: #4 folder would be split up by his children in order of birth - #4-1, #4-2, #4-3 etc. This will keep you going for quite a while. Then all you must remember to recoup the information is the family surname and approximate generation. Of course on the label I write the # of the folder and the name of the party - #4 Smith, Michael. You could even go so far as the add 1875-1945. Hope this helps someone. I started out with the notebook too but became overwhelmed with papers in no time. Patsy patsy@penn.com