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Sue

Sue Report 1 Sep 2009 10:06

What I did for aged BIL was this:

I printed off his whole tree and spent ages sellotaping it together so it could be scrolled.

I started with his father's main report page and highlighted his father's name in yellow. In the yellow plastic file everything to do with him is highlighted in yellow. Where his grandfather appears I highlighted him in orange.

The I started an orange plastic for for his grandfather, repeat the above but highlight his gt. grandfather in green and repeat back through the generations.

This means he has a separate file for each member of his direct male line which cross over each other on the census records but contain information only relevant to that person.

Did the same on the maternal line.

Well it makes sense to me...lol

Sue

ElizabethK

ElizabethK Report 1 Sep 2009 09:55

Not a suggestion but a similar problem and my son recently said to me:-

"I hope you are going to sort all this out before you drop off your perch" !!

Concentrates the mind no end !

Kathlyn

Kathlyn Report 1 Sep 2009 09:18

I must get this mountain of bits of paper that I have collected during my research, into an understandable narative. I know what is what but as and when my children inherit it, they will consign it to the rubbish as being too big a jigsaw puzzle.

Please can I have suggestions as to where/how I start to make this into a readable "story". I want it to be interesting not just a collection of names and dates.

Kathlyn