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From: "Kathy Hinckley" <>
Subject: RE: [APG] HEEELP!!
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 09:41:56 -0700
In-Reply-To: <152.27abbaf4.2cff5b1b@aol.com>


The June 2003 issue of the APGQ, pages 51-55 has my article titled "Take
Control: Five Steps to an Organized Genealogical Business Office."
Maybe it will get you started.

Kathleen W. Hinckley, CGRS
Professional Genealogist & Private Investigator
Family Detective
PO Box 350877
Westminster, CO 80035-0877
(303) 422-9371
http://www.familydetective.com

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Subject: [APG] HEEELP!!


Hello list,

I'm sitting here in my office and embarrassed to admit this to my fellow

genealogist. But I'm in a huge mess. I feel like the little cartoon Mary
Hill uses
in her "Organizing Your Family History" lecture. The one where the
genealogist is hidden by the stack of papers<G>. For those who have been
to this class
you know what I'm talking about.

Anyway, here is my dilemma. I have tons of stuff, not just limited to my

office.<G>
I have it in my kitchen, bedroom, office, bathroom, etc. Things that
pertain
to genealogy. Whether it be the latest magazines, my own family history,
a
project I'm working on for a society or a client or even an up coming
lecture.
It is all a MESS!!

Every month I organize the whole darn thing and make an oath to myself I
will
keep it organized. Then something happens like I need an article here or
a
book there or just to plainly work on family information, etc. I bring
the items
out and never seem to be able to put the book, magazine or file back. It
then
becomes a pile. And then I need it again I search and search. thus
causing
the huge mess all over again.

Now, I have taken Mary Hill's presentation. I have obtained books on
organizing, read articles, etc. and I always start a new oath to be
organized but
never following through. grrrr

Are there any ideas from the members of how they have conquered this
problem?

I swear I want to go on one of those shows like DIY so they could help
me
with my dilemma. But honestly I think to myself "I would hate for
another
genealogist to see my place in such a mess" and conclude I should be
better. I say
just organize it Cindy and make sure you file it back. But I have tried
this for
years.
To make my problem worse, I think I must keep everything, even the
littlest
scrap of paper with genealogical information. <G> I tell myself that if
I get
rid of it I will be looking for it again someday. And sure enough I do.

I have years and years of genealogical magazines, Journals, quarterlies,
etc.
Enough to fill a whole book case. Which takes up a whole closet by it's
self.
If you were me would you give them to the locale genealogical society?
How do
I know which articles to keep? Most I have learned so much from, and go
back
to them often because I have found them to be valuable. But this causes
another problem. I have to tear the shelf's apart in order to know which
publication
the article is in going most of the time one by one.

If anyone has some ideas, I would be truly grateful.

Thanks for hearing me out <G>

Cindy Hofmeister



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