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
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Data Entry
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Digital File Naming
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Family Photos
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Linking Paper & Digital Records
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Data Security & Backups
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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. DC
    Dennis Cox
    16 hours ago

    Should be a perquisite before even being to do genealogy. While I had implemented many of the types of folders and subfolders discussed in this webinar, those folders were what one would consider disorganized for the purpose of rapid recovery of information. Hours will be spent in reorganizing using the Six Folder System but the finished product will save hours down the road. GREAT WEBINAR!

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    Bob Miller
    19 hours ago

    I’m finally ready to set up a file system for my information. This presentation clicked. A long time ago I attended a seminar where the presenter emphasized that in order to be practical a system has to be able to be in one’s head. This one FINALLY is that type of system.

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    joanne howard
    2 days ago

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

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  4. VR
    Vicki Roberts
    2 days ago

    Nancy is a great presenter and her program was so helpful

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  5. BG
    Bert Geenen
    2 days 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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  6. KA
    Kaye Arnold
    2 days 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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  7. GG
    Grant Gee
    2 days ago

    Very well done and presented.

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  8. EM
    Eileen Murawsky
    2 days 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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