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Article #27Re: Keeping track of paper files
From: Steve Hayes
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 02:42
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 02:42
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On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 21:04:13 +0200, "Lesley Robertson" <l.a.robertson@tnw.tudelft.nl> wrote: >> So where do you file a family tree that shows 7 generations? > >Each couple's section starts with an "egg timer" tree showing them >central, with their parents and children. Any info on their sibs goes >into the same file. My family history splits neatly into Maternal >(S.Africa) and Paternal (Scotland) and I have a separate file showing >the trees starting with each parent (from FTM, it happily prints >multi-page trees), with notes showing which file contains the main >info on each person. >It works for me - it's also the system I devised when starting and it >would be far too much work to change. So do you make multiple copies of the tree, to file in each section? Or do you type all the data into FTM, even that on unrelated people? And where do you keep the *original* tree -- the one that came in the post from your seventh cousin once removed in Tierra del Fuego? -- Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Web: http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/stevesig.htm Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk
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