Re: [PAF] Need Help with Sources.

[Cheryl Singhal <csinghal@CapAccess.org>]

I'm gonna be the ant at the picnic, the fly in the ointment, etc etc again.

I used to work with a woman who was absolutely fanatical about 
organization. She had two secretaries, one of whom did absolutely NOTHING 
and had time to do nothing but keep the woman's files organized.  The 2nd 
secretary spent half her time retyping the key, which when I left the 
organization was up to 12 single-spaced pages per day for a 4-drawer 
cabinet that was half-empty.

A second point driven home recently by a personal, aborted, attempt to 
organize -- one sheet of paper takes up 1mm of space.  put that sheet of 
paper into a labelled hanging file and it takes up 8mm of space. (or 
whatever numbers your rulers give you).  In addition, those hanging file 
folds are expensive!

And, third, how effective, fast, efficient, easy any given system IS 
depends on the number of people you're tracking and the amount of paper 
each generates.  The more people and/or the more paper, the less 
efficient, fast, easy or effective.  And, unfortunately, the more people, 
the more time you spend organizing each time you get a new piece of paper.

Trust me on this -- the methods I use on my 600-person database simply do 
not work as well on my 23,000+ person database.  And if I have find the 
cheat-sheet before I can look for a fact, I have spent any time saved.

Then again -- maybe I'm just one of those persons who want it NOW rather 
than "right".

Cheryl

On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 Whatjoy@aol.com wrote:

> Thomas
> 
> This is the link for Clooz. Go there and you can get a lot of info.
> http://ancestordetective.com 
> 
> Go to WWW Dear Myrtle. When you get there,  find the 'How To Guide' Then 
> Click on Finally Get Organized.  From there, Click on January Organization,  
> That is where it tells how to set up the Binders.  I can find any person in 
> just a few min.
> As for the Doc. on the children, if they are married, they would be the head 
> in the group sheet and their documents would go there. I hope I didn't 
> confuse you.  If I did, you can write me back.  I will be up for a couple of 
> hours.
> My E-mail is WhatJoy@aol.com
> Joyce
> 
> 
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