For the past 10 years, I have sorted my notebook collection of family history documents by first name. Yes, I know that is a bit odd but it worked (or seemed to work) for me. In December, I read a few blogs where the authors discussed re-visiting their family history information. This got me thinking and I decided it was time to re-organize my 10 or so large notebooks and file the documents according to "family branch" instead of first name. How much time could it take, right?
So, I started with the Chambers, and using my "Descendants of Thomas Chambers" document as a guide, I found that those documents fit into one large notebook. Wow, this is easy, I thought! Next came the Sherlocks, and even though it took 2 notebooks for them, it was still rather easy.
Okay, so let's see what other small family branch I could work on next. I had completed (or at least was under the impression that I had) my "Descendants of Oster Hober" document, which was 27 pages so that should be relatively easy. The problem, I found out quickly, was that I wasn't completed with a lot of the sub-branches in my research. How can there be this many Hobers, Hoefers, Gebhards, Muehls, Koenigs and Yegges? Every time I think I am almost done, a whole bunch more crop up! Now that I have been working on this for the past two weeks, I am hoping it is now under control.
The good news is that I am finding some interesting stories. Stay tuned for those in future blog posts!
