Our Family Tree

As I mentioned before, I use binders to store most of my work thanks to the suggestions of the Genealogy Research Group. But I organize them just a tad differently.

In our previous episode, we tamed the paper monster by making it easy to find research documents by numbering them and keeping them sequentially in binders. Today I’ll tell you how I organize my computer files.

Now that your research is organized, it’s time to get a handle on the piles of documents you will be collecting.

I found out just this past week about the Arizona Birth and Death records online. Like the Missouri Death Certificates project, Arizona has the images available on line. On my first try, I found someone I had lost track of. How kewl is that?

I admit I was concerned at the huge success of the effort by the Missouri State Archives to put these records online. The first few months, it seemed there was no way the server could handle the load and getting the actual images online seemed a daunting task.
However, success has not spoiled […]

One of the first things you’ll find out when you start digging into your family tree is that if you don’t have your research organized, you’ll waste a lot of time. Either you won’t be able to find what you know you have, or you’ll end up doing things more than once. Most […]

When I began my research on this family, I didn’t originally make much progress because I wrongly assumed Worthen was born in or around Roanoke, Virginia. His daughter, Margaret Eliza Lewis Burrows, was born there.
Come to find out, Worthen was born in California and lived most of his life there, with the […]