In a recent post I talked about organising your records so I thought in this follow up I’d show specifically how I do it. Physical Records I actually don’t have that many physical records, mainly ordered certificates and original documents, but I still want to keep them in an orderly fashion. In my case I…

One of the biggest differences between enjoyable family history and frustrating family history is organisation. Most of us start with enthusiasm: downloading certificates, saving census images, scribbling notes, bookmarking websites. Then, a few months later, we can’t remember where anything is — or worse, we end up ordering the same certificate twice. Getting organised isn’t…