You know how it gets cumbersome to carry so many notebooks, laptop, etc. to a repository for research? I generally plan my trip so that I know what line I am going to work on. I then print out the FGS and a Pedigree on that line so I can see where the blank lines are then I high-light those. This helps me to focus on what questions I want to answer and therefore can determine what records I want to look for. Then I make a specific "shopping list".
I know that some people take their laptop everywhere and enter all their research immediately. For whatever my reasons, it is not my favorite way to do things, cause I do not want to carry it AND I do not want the hassle of making sure that I can use it at a repository OR that it will work.
So, a member of my society has this neat little trick. She buys one of those Coupon accordion files (from a dollar store) that holds index cards and fills it with blank index cards. Then whenever she looks at a source, she puts down the source and all information on one card. On the top of my cards, I put the surname that it pertains to then all source citation and repository information. Finally, what ever the specific information found I place it on the card...or I write nothing found. When all are filed in my little coupon file, I have something small, lightweight and readily organized and carried.
Neat, huh?
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