The Six-Folder Genealogy Organizing System

Nancy E. Loe, MA, MLS
Jul 2, 2025
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Welcome
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Speaker's Introduction
1m 22s
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Introduction
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Top 5 Organizing Ideas
6m 05s
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Data Entry
2m 16s
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Digital File Naming
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Family Photos
19m 12s
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Linking Paper & Digital Records
2m 57s
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Data Security & Backups
11m 17s
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Announcements / prizes
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Questions / answers
22m 10s

About this webinar

Lost in a sea of digital files, family photos, and paper records? Can’t find the records you know you have? Scanning photos and records more than once? This archives-based system helps you organize ALL of your genealogy research and records in just six folders. No need for color codes, numbering systems, or other complicated schemes with ideas from a professional genealogist and archivist.

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Valid through: July 8, 2025

About the speaker

About the speaker

Archivist, librarian, and genealogist Nancy Loe has been helping researchers with their family trees since 1977. From her time interning at the Smithsonian archives as a grad student to her current work as a genealogist, working with primary sourc
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  1. JH
    joanne howard
    21 hours ago

    Excellent. Wish I had know about this type of organization before. I am going to watch her other presentations.

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  2. VR
    Vicki Roberts
    21 hours ago

    Nancy is a great presenter and her program was so helpful

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  3. BG
    Bert Geenen
    21 hours ago

    Extensive and clear overview of a system that has proven its usefullness, and therefore a valuable source of inspiration and food for thought on how to set up or improve one’s own system. Many tips, tricks and recommendations to apply.

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  4. KA
    Kaye Arnold
    21 hours ago

    Feeling like I so wish I had attended this webinar 30 years ago–have so much work to redo my scattered research! Not so young so I hope I have the time to get it all done!–Great seminar.

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  5. GG
    Grant Gee
    21 hours ago

    Very well done and presented.

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  6. EM
    Eileen Murawsky
    21 hours ago

    Really great example of an organization that can be custom built by each user to include all the types of information found in genealogical research.

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  7. NG
    Noreen Gunn
    21 hours ago

    Many great ideas. I do some of these already, but will integrate more of your ideas together with mine. Already have daily backups of my whole computer!!

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  8. BN
    Beverly Neal
    21 hours ago

    I have stacks and stacks of several years of research. And every time I want anything, I spend way too much time searching. I try to find where I’ve stored things on my PC. But it’s as disorganized as my paper files. This webinar is going to help me very, very much!

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