Saturday, January 21, 2012  Storing All Those Certificates and
Such  So how do you store your important genealogical
certificates and documents? In my mind, I consider anything I
had to cough up money for and/or possibly wait several months
for, a certificate. So things like:  Birth Certificate Death
Certificate Marriage Certificate Divorce Decree Social Security
Application Draft Registration  Plus there could be more that
are a bit more unusual. For instance, I have a copy of the
papers for one relative that officially changed his name.  Why
do I worry about how to store these things? Hey, it's a scary
world out there! And beyond the obvious answers of fire,
pestilance and plague hurting my precious little documents,
there is always the thought of getting to these things easily
when I want to look something up. Or maybe I just want to stare
at them all and kind of wallow in the thought that they are
mine, all mine.  So I like to keep the originals (If I have
originals) in plastic sleeves in a binder.  I'll