From: valauld Full-Name: Valerie H. Auld To: [email protected] Subject: Help Organizing my Research! X-Status: New Anyone have any suggestions on organizing?I have been doing research off and on for 15 years and have 2 huge boxes full of stuff...notes taken from people, books, etc., interviews with relatives, pictures--both old ones passed down and new ones taken at cemetaries, old houses, etc., census notes etc. etc. etc....I have a master list kept on an old Apple IIGS computer program called Family Tree by Broderbund. This has all my names, birth/marriage/death dates and places recorded, but just of my direct line. I have entered no brothers or sisters in the computer as the old Apples require you to store everything on disk, no hard drive, so you have to keep it small or else divide it up onto many disks, which becomes quite confusing. I have the program "Master Genealogist" as well as the LDS program "Personal Ancestral File" loaded on my IBM compatible, but have never GEDCOM'd off the Apple to load it in.Anyway, my question is....what to do with all this paper? Do you advise making a separate notebook on each family name or what. Anybody have a good system out there---I know I'm not the only one in this situation. I have some great research buried in these boxes and am afraid I'm wasting time redoing a lot and probably have good stuff to pass on to others, if I could just get it organized so it is usable and handy.Valerie [email protected] _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]