Using your data base program to help organize your research

If you have printed documents proving you research file them by # in a 3 ring binder with a number tab system. If you have digital images give each image a #. If you keep both a printed and a digital image make sure the #s match. Then in your source list add the doucment # to the end of the title of the source. Include a source for each document (rather than put Utah birth certificates make a source for each certificate and tell for whom) Then you automatically have 4 indexes to your numbered sources.

If you wish to find all the documents on a individual print an individual summary showing the footnoted sources and it will give you all the document #s for that individual. If you wish to know all the sources on a family print a family group sheet showing sources (on paper or to the screen)  and you will see all the documents that apply to that family. If you wish to search for a document bytitle print on paper or to the screen your source list. Your source list will also sort by type of document if you start with the type of document in the title: for example Birth Certificate for John Doe. Then all your birth certificates will be together under B.