> beginner, I thought I would ask any of you for some of your tips and > suggestions on organization of your files. _ALWAYS_ make a note of _ALL_ the sources you used when you conclude someone is born/married/died at some date or place or how you decided they were related to someone. It took me nine months to come to that conclusion. I started by writing down when people were born etc. Later I started finding conflicting evidence but because I had not written down _WHY_ I came to the earlier conclusion I had to go over all the earlier work in order to decide which was correct.