To print the pages, I have a HP printer and I use good heavy paper with a smooth finish so the images (especially photos and those with small text) have as much detail and clarity as possible. Disc bound systems look like spiral bound notebooks but they use a special hole bunch that lets you insert/remove pages easily. To make sure my printed genealogy notebook looks as nice as possible I use a disc bound system and good copy paper. I'm also an subscriber but I move every document/photo/piece of info into my own notebook so if anything happens to my Ancestry account I won't lose anything. The simple explanation for how my genealogy is organized is that I use an app on my iPad called Goodnotes to create digital notebooks and then I print those notebook pages out and put them in a binder so I always have both a digital and a print version of my genealogy. Also, some of this stuff is a bit of an investment but I wasted a lot of money on cheaper alternatives (folders, tubs, online services, etc.) before settling here so I say spend the money if you can just to save yourself time. When I link to some of the products I use, I might use affiliate links (which means I could earn store credit if you bought something through that link) but all of these things are really my gear and I do recommend them whether you buy through my link or not. It took me about two years to really find my groove and solve all of my genealogy organization headaches but it's not a complicated system and I'm going to lay it all out for you below. And I stopped feeling like my hobby was eating the limited space in our office. I stopped flipping through folders trying to figure out who went with who. I stopped having to dig through boxes of papers. Once I started doing genealogy digitally on my iPad, everything calmed down. To top it off, I had a giant tub of folders where I tried to keep all of my data but with five separate family trees and an exponential number of ancestors I spent most of my time just being overwhelmed and frustrated.Īnd I almost quit doing genealogy because it was making me crazy. I had boxes of photos from different families but could only identify about 30% of them and they kept getting bent as I moved them around. I would save things on Ancestry but lose track of what I had searched for. Yet this is exactly what the first couple of years of my genealogy were like. WHY IS ORGANIZING GENEALOGY SO DIFFICULT? So read on and then pop over to that other post to see how that works.) I have a whole post on using Adobe Acrobat on your computer instead of using an iPad. (Before we get started, if you don't have an iPad, you can still use this method. Do you like the look of my genealogy pages but you're not sure if they're right for you or if you're "tech savvy" enough to use them? Do you kind of want to get into genealogy but it's all a little too overwhelming and it makes you want to take a big nap? Did you get stuck with all your family photos and documents and now you don't know what to do with them?
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