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I'm getting bogged down with paper!
 I started off my research on FindMyPast but have now moved on to Ancestry, I've been printing off all births, marriages, deaths and census's and filing them in folders for each side of the family, I have about six large ring binders now, but I think I must be getting this wrong, does anyone else print off all these and keep them?
 I was showing one of the folders to my sister today and I realised that it was so difficult to follow, even I was getting confused and it's me that's done it!!
 I have the main person, his birth, marriage, death,(papers I've printed off) then his wife, plus her bits, then their census's, followed by their children and their 'bits', and when they've had children I go onto them, when they've been done, I'm then back to the original persons next child and so on, hope I'm making sense, but it's just too complicated, but as I said, only realised that today when trying to explain it to my sister, I hadn't looked at the folder for a while so I was looking at it with fresh eyes really and was so disappointed that it was so confusing, so can anyone suggest something better, maybe I shouldn't keep all these print-offs and have some sort of record sheet with this info on and just have these in the folder, it would certainly cut down on the paper that's for sure, so any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks

I'm getting confused with so many 'greats' in my tree now, I know that here in England we tend to use 'Great Aunt' etc and in America, as far as I understand, you say, 'Grand Aunt', I've been sticking with 'Great' as that's what I've been used to, but can you clarify this for me please?

Am I right in thinking that my grt/grt/grt/grt/grt/ grandfathers brother would be my grt/grt/grt/grt/grt Uncle?

Seems a silly question now I see it in print, but I find all these 'greats' so confusing, would the brother have the same amount of 'greats' as the grandfather, they are the same generation after all.
Any help would be much appreciated, thanks.
Jacrista

Big big disapointment today I think I've just discovered that I've been researching down the wrong route I guess you can imagine how gutted I am as I have done such a lot so far, anyway, I don't know if anyone can help me out here.

 Starting with Herbert Darling born approx 1880 in Bradford, on the 1911 census he is in Chesterfield Derbyshire as a lodger and goes on to marry their daughter Agnes Ellis, he dies in 1923 in Chesterfield.

 On the 1901 census I have him working on a farm in Yorkshire, and in 1891 he's in 'Nutters Orphanage' in Bradford along with his brother George.

On the 1881 census he is in Bradford with his parents, brother George and two sisters, Grace & Mary Jane who both died 1882 & 1883.

 Now here in lies my dilemma, what has happened to his father John? (stone mason) born Scarborough 1851, his mother Harriet dies in 1887, I can find no other records for him, either before or after this census date, no birth, death or marriage.

I had assumed that he went on to marry 'Eliza Glaves', and this is where I am sure I have gone wrong (and this is the line I've been following) after discovering another record for 'Eliza's John' yesterday, which on the 1881 census puts him in East Ayton Yorkshire as a farm servant, so he could hardly be in Bradford with his parents!!

 Oh boy, all the work I've done, I'm gutted!

But anyway, getting off on the right line is proving difficult, as I said I can't find any records for the 'right John' I assume his kids (Herbert & George) were put in an orphange after their Mum died, but what happened to John? can anyone help, point me in the right direction or just something, I'm pretty close to giving up altogether I can tell you, I'm so mad, grrrrrrr
Would be eternally grateful for any snippet anyone can offer, thanks.

(Forgot to say that I got Herberts fathers name and occupation from Herberts parish record of his marriage)

I know that an ancestor, 'Ernest Ellis' was in Middlewood asylum in 1913 but I believe that inmates were moved in 1915 so the place could be used as a war hospital, patients being moved either to Wakefield asylum, Storthes Hall or Menston,  I have now discovered a burial record elsewhere saying that he died at 'West Riding Asylum' which asylum would that be?  there are so many different names for these asylums I'm getting a bit mixed up,   can anyone advise please?

Can someone please tell me if 'St.Vincent of Paul' (as found on a baptism record) is the catholic church in Solly street in Sheffield, and should it be 'St. Vincent de Paul? I believe the church is no longer used and becoming derilict, have I got the right one?