Spring cleaning my family tree,

[Willow 4873]

i think i'm gonna have to give my family history a break,due to a family crisis

Hiya familyman

Welcome to Rootschat and hope your crisis resolves its self soon

Sorry guys I'm semi-organised

Tree is on the computer along with notes on a word document and it all backs up onto a separate hardrive

Documents certificates etc are all in loose leaf files

Just stuck with sorting photos and the boxes of odd bits and pieces that are piled on the floor

Mainly this is all because my other half is a tidyness nut. We are off next week and he says that the library/computer room has got to be tidied up along with the tidying of junk cupboard and garage  think I will have to lock myself in and do it otherwise all sorts of useful stuff will vanish

Willow x

[Carole Bloomfield]

Hi Everyone
Isn't it great to find other peoiple are as messy as you?? I have tried to be organised by having files for each branch of the family but they all run in to one another and it gets very complicated. I decided to make a chart that is on a bedroom/computer room wall - not an easy task as it has over 600 on it and still growing! It now needs to be re written to add yet more branches so I am thinking of breaking it down in to smaller trees. It sounds hard work, but it is so much easier to look at and trace people. Trouble is, my bedroom needs decorating, so it might not go back on the wall!!
Love this site!
Carole

[Lydart]

Use it as wallpaper, Carole ?

Just need to buy some wallpaper paste ...

[Carole Bloomfield]

What a great idea!
It almost looks like wallpaper already, but a bit messy with new additions squeezed in!
It is certainly a talking point when anyone sees it
Carole

[Suziesmith37]

Hi all

Started doin bits of research many decades ago and most of it on scrappy bits of paper!

Including notes from birth certs and marriage certs and bits and bobs my grandad told me.  Was at the point of 'tidying' them up a couple of times over the years. 

Then Grandad died and all the documentation/certificates had gone!  So my scrappy notes were all we had to go on

So tidy but not too well

Su

Familyman1 family now is more important to deal with - the ancestors will always be around! Hope all goes well.

[Sylviaann]

Been doing this for 20 years now.  I remember early on reading about a man who lost everything in a house fire.

I now have approx 20 files, one for each surname or if not much info some in the same file but grouped in my mothers side and my fathers side.  It is also all on computer in Word which I back up onto disc every so often.

Perhaps you think I am tidy but wanting to decorate I have had to move all the files and I'm amazed at all the bits of paper which are trying to drop out and the dust even makes me ashamed.  I go through the "sides" as often as I can.  I'm on my mothers side now and I estimate it taking 2 years.(Well I still have to come on here every day and sometimes do housework)

I'm trying to make it easy for my family when I pass on.  Word makes it easy to send information to family members

My advice is to get it all into some sort of order as soon as possible.  20 years of mess will be too much to deal with

Sylviaann

[Lydart]

So at the present rate of sorting and filing, it shouldn't take you more than about another 8 years to edit your RC profile !!



 

[familyman1]

i always keep my data on discs

[pwitz]

Hi everyone

Hubby is downstairs watching footie, but I wish he could see your posts and then know that it's not only me who has paperwork all over the spare room!  I have next week off work and will try to get it in some sort of order, but then again maybe I'll just find a few more ancestors that need adding to the pile!

Loved the comment about using the wall - I have suggested that, but the idea didn't go down too well with him.   

Polly