This system shows you how to set up file folders for the families on your pedigree lines and also how to file information about cousins and other relations. Pedigree charts are divided into 4 colors, based on the lines of your 4 grandparents. Family file folders store documents and a printed copy of your family group record. Dividing your pedigree by color helps make it clear which line a family belongs to.
Holding Files
As you research, you will acquire many documents, e-mails, notes, and letters that need to be analyzed, used, and filed. But you can't always do that immediately after finding new information. Therefore, Holding Files provide a temporary place to store papers until you can analyze, use, and file them permanently.
Locality Files
In your research, you will often find documents that contain information about more than one family from the same place, or documents from one place which have several families with the same surname. You may not know yet how you are related to them. Often you may be related to several other families in the same area.
You can store records such as a census index of your family surnames, a map, a list of marriages from a town or county, an index to the wills in an area, or a local history in a file named for that locality. Then you can add information from these documents to your computer genealogy management program, with a source reference and notes taken from the documents filed in your Locality File. Locality Files are useful and flexible. You can add Locality Files as you need them.
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Copyright 2000, by Mary E. Hill, AG, MLS (also known as Mary E.V. Hill, AG, MLS). All rights reserved. No part of this work may be translated or reproduced in any medium now known or hereinafter developed without the express written permission of the copyright holder. Printed in the U.S.A.
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