Sunday, August 29, 2010

How To Deal With Genealogy "Paper"

I found some websites that do a great job of teaching you how to organize all the paper you accumulate with your genealogy hobby.
Genealogy Recordkeeping
To Organize Or Be a Genealogy Slob
Learn Genealogy - Organizing - Record keeping


If you decide to go into the digital age... Genealogy software is computer software used to record, organize, and publish genealogical data. At a minimum, genealogy software collects the date and place of an individual's birth, marriage, and death, and stores the relationships of individuals to their parents, spouses, and children. Additionally, most genealogy programs handle additional events in an individual's life, free-form notes, and photographs and other multimedia, and source citations. Genealogy software programs can produce a variety of graphical charts and text reports, such as pedigree charts, ahnentafel reports, or Register reports. Most genealogy software will allow for the export of data in the GEDCOM format, which can then be shared with people using different genealogy software. Do a Google search on "genealogy software" and look for a website that has done a recent comparison between the different genealogy software packages available. You can even look for simple but free genealogy software too.

I use my computers and Rootsmagic software but I also have backup hardcopies of important things like copies of wills, death certificates, etc. I have them filed by surnames.

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