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ORGANIZING THE CHAOS

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  ORGANIZING THE CHAOS Source: Bing clip art I am confessing right now to a mountain of family papers and pictures. Time for filing has been at a minimum the last several months. What genealogy time I could make was spent searching on two family members: Winfield Scott APPLEBACH, and Susanna BOEHM. I have dug around through Family Search, Ancestry, Fold 3, Newspapers.com, and Google collecting all the info possible. And worse, it has been saved as both digital and paper. Can we say no real organization? This morning I decided it was time to tackle the issue and organize the chaos now that I have two computer screens to work with again. I find it so much easier to have a file open on one computer screen while I move documents and photos into it from the second screen. Since I actually have computer files for these two people already, it was easier to start with the downloads that were on the computer. So, two and half hours later, the APPLEBACH and BOEHM files have been updated. One suc