Genealogy Chat

First advice would be to get a program like Familytreemaker 2006 (amazon have the Who do you think you are editiion for under £20 at the moment). On that you will record all the details of marriages, births, deaths of each individual and enter the info from the certificate so you shouldnt make the mistake of ordering twice again as you will see on their family page you have the cert already. You can also paste and copy census details on to each persons own notes. Secondly, the files you are keeping the certs in - are they archival quality? If not, go to S and N Genealogy website and check out the long Certificates album and the archival quality pockets you use with it. You can put two certs in each pocket back to back. But I think a good family tree program is your real need. Plus you really dont want to keep your info just on GR which seems to be having quite a few probs lately. Also with FTM2006 you can very very easily make your own website with all your info plus photos and documents.

Being fairly new to this (4 months), and having received such fantastic help from everyone, could some please advise the best way to keep records. I have already stupidly ordered two copies of the same certificate, so to avoid doing this again, does anyone have any advice on how to keep my records. At the moment my copy certificates, census details etc are all together in one file. This is obviously not ideal as I have to wade throught reams of paperwork to find anything. Your help is much appreciated. Vanessa