Edgewood New Mexico FamilySearch Center/Tips: Difference between revisions

[[File:Edgewood_NM_FHC_letter_pile_.jpg|250px]] [[File:Edgewood_NM_FHCmisc_notes.jpg|169px]] Do your family history notes look like this? Do you dread working on family history because you are sorting through piles of little notes? I used to do this, too, until I hit on a solution. You know those cheap 99 cent composition notebooks you can get at W--m-rt? Buy a few and transcribe all your notes in them. Leave the first page or two blank for a table of contents. I organize my notebooks by my husband’s and my own families. If most of your notes are on letter-sized paper, 3-hole punch them and put them in a 3-ring binder. Then next time you are on the phone with Grandpa and he begins telling you a story, pull out your notebook and jot it down. As you use these notes to create more organized, permanent records—like a family history book or an online memory in FamilySearch—cross off the note as being used and record where you used it. —''Susan Heath''