Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Files, files and more files




I've been spending time labeling files .... and finally have the beginnings of the Mary Hill system set up in my filing drawers. I've adapted it somewhat - I prefer legal sized folders and because of this, I didn't buy folders with the middle tabs for siblings. I've colour coded the hanging folders, inside folders and labels with the four colours. I will have to come up with a plan for siblings - maybe plain coloured folders with only coloured labels for siblings - not as easy to visually scan as middle cut tabs though. I also only started with enough folders for direct line families up to 10 generations. I have MANY more families to create folders for. But I also realized that I only cleared space for the folders, not for any contents so I have some more decluttering and expanding to do.
The process is only highlighting all the gaps - all the family information I have no sources for and the possible errors strewn throughout my records. It really does need to be a back to basics approach once I have assessed what I have.

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