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From Piles to Files: Organize Your Genealogy

Teresa Steinkamp McMillin, CG
Feb 23, 2022
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Speaker's Introduction
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Your Container
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What Teresa Does
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Continue Research
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About this webinar

Years of research can generate many documents. To keep track of all your valuable information, a workable organization plan is a must. Can you find the documents you have? When you receive a new document, do you know exactly where you’re going to put it so that you will find it easily? The lecture will discuss organization methods for paper and digital files.

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Teresa Steinkamp McMillin, CG
Teresa Steinkamp McMillin, Certified Genealogist®, author of the Guide to Hanover Military Records, 1514-1866 on Microfilm at the Family History Library, is the owner of Lind Street Research, a company dedicated to helping people discover
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  1. KL
    Karen Litteral
    2 years ago

    This was an excellent webinar. It gave many ideas and alternatives to ways of organizing your work.

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  2. JM
    Judy Morrison
    2 years ago

    Great webinar!

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  3. MH
    mary Hawkins
    2 years ago

    What a fantastic webinar! My work area is the perfect example of what not to do! I will watch this webinar again and again. Thank you for this webinar.

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  4. WV
    Webinar Viewer
    2 years ago

    Teresa Steinkamp McMillin spoke very well, calmly, dealing with many what ifs, alternatives and reminders using good., not too busy, slides.

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  5. WV
    Webinar Viewer
    2 years ago

    Great information! So good that Teresa gave ideas you could adapt to your own logic — it wasn’t a detailed one-method approach. I appreciated hearing the reasons for some of the organization decisions that I would have thought were unnecessary. She also had suggestions for how to handle situations like surname changes. Quite a valuable webinar!

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  6. WV
    Webinar Viewer
    2 years ago

    I liked that there were so many actionable suggestions presented.

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  7. RL
    Rosemary Leb
    2 years ago

    I’ve watched so many videos, webinars and books on this subject, but I’m still an organized mess. I loved Teresa’s “Create A Plan” and to not do any research until you have organized all your papers, etc. She did an excellent job of easily explaining all the steps to be taken with a document and how she keeps her Digital files. Teresa gave some really good tips/ideas on so many things (ex. an Education folder of the classes/webinars taken on genealogy).

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  8. WV
    Webinar Viewer
    2 years ago

    will be watched and re-watched and re-watched… and then go find any other webinars she has presented.

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