However, 2015 is a whole new year and I am tired of wasting my time trying to 'fix' it, so I am going to join Thomas McEntee and throw it all out and start fresh, oh boy this is going to be a HUGE and wondrous journey. Completely re-sourcing every single item, along with new ones, one person at a time.
I also have an easy reference Index which pulls all documents with a certain prefix, ie D-Death, CEN-Census etc so I can easily find them. You can see there are multiple copies of items here because of the duplication into the FamilyTreeMaker Media system, this will all be removed as I go along, exciting!
If you are game and would like to join me, see here
I am happy with my existing digital filing system which I set up a few years ago, it works for me, so that will remain, could certainly be tidied up further though!
Here is a sample of my 'filing'. I discovered last night that I don't have everything in my hard copy collection scanned when I went searching for my mothers baptism certificates, so that will be a priority, one person at a time, get it scanned and documented.
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| Person filing system |
I also have an easy reference Index which pulls all documents with a certain prefix, ie D-Death, CEN-Census etc so I can easily find them. You can see there are multiple copies of items here because of the duplication into the FamilyTreeMaker Media system, this will all be removed as I go along, exciting!
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| Indexes for easy viewing of "pre-fixed" documents |
I think, only 'think' at this stage, that I am going to dump all mainstream programs and move to open source Gramps, if I can get the hang of it. I currently have FTMM3, Reunion 10 and Legacy 7, I decided to completely switch to Mac because I can never get Parallels and Windows to play nicely, the program I will miss the most is something that I only started using in the past year, Clooz, which sadly is only Windows based so won't be coming with me. Bonus,his Genealogy Do-Over will save me a tonne of money in that I won't have to pay for "updates" and "upgrades" to so many programs.
This has all been prompted because I signed up for the 'Introduction to Family History' module at the University of Tasmania which a cousin put me on to, thanks Jan! At first I thought nah, but decided to do it and see what I could learn, well, I can tell you it has been an eye opener so far. Oral History? I never thought of that having any structure, research plans? I'm pretty organised, but wow, now I have a whole fresh outlook, which is what my genealogy needs.
2015 is going to be so much fun!
NB: I follow Ben Sayer's Genealogy Tools method of filing, here are the links:
NB: I follow Ben Sayer's Genealogy Tools method of filing, here are the links:
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