Keep Calm and Label Everything

I am known in the family as one who is somewhat compulsive about organizing things.

(Somewhat!!??  They laugh out loud.)

Yes, it's true that I send detailed itineraries to all and sundry when we travel.  And, yes, I give Tom a list of meals to eat when I go away.  And, yes, my kitchen cupboards look like a Tupperware advertisement.

But recently I have reached the Organizer's state of Perfect Happiness because I am researching my family tree.

It is the most exciting experience!  No longer do I have to root through pages and pages of original documents  Instead I enter the name of my ancestor into ancestry.co.uk and the program gives me "Hints":  Census records, Birth and Death Indexes, other researchers' Family Trees ....  All I have to do is say "YES!" and this information is added to my Family Tree.

AND, I have to organize my genealogical research.

First I bought a label-making machine.

(Now, I need to interject here.  While a label-making machine may be perceived by many as the height of folly, I have already had several requests:  Would you please make me a label for ...  I rest my case.)

Then six 2-inch binders, two sets of tab dividers, and several reams of printer paper.

O. M. G.

I am now working on entering, reviewing, correcting obvious errors, printing Family Group Sheets and individual Profiles, and filing the whole kit and caboodle into the aforementioned binders.

Bliss ...