I asked for suggestions on how to keep work organized and easily trackable even though I have been doing this since 1966. A lot of you have told how you have accomplished this. Each person has a different way of doing it but it all comes back to the same way. The easiest way for each of us. It seems like I have thought of all the ways you have but it still remains a fact that I have steno books galore, index cards, post-it notes both in steno books and on family sheets, pages copied out of books, printed e-mails, boxes and boxes of literature all over the place. I hope that all the suggestions put forth will help those of you who are beginners and those who have things strewn from here to there. And to all beginners do not make the mistake that I did when I first started. Document, document, document. On census records put the district, date, page and line number. If you get info from someone document that person's name and date. It might not be a bad idea to list their relationship. If the info comes from a book document the title, author, and the page number. There is nothing more aggravating than having some info from a book and needing to recheck it or get additional info only to have forgotten the name of the book and page. Where the book is located is also a good thing to have. I also made the mistake when I first started of getting only the names of people I knew fit into my tree. Later I realized that some I had rejected were ones that I needed.