Ancestry has recently added many new years in the US City Directories, so I've been printing out a lot of pages for quick reference as well as saving digital copies.
For my digital copies, I am following the idea used by Gedcom Census and filing all the images that came from the same source together. But now I have to figure out what to do with the paper copies. Filing by surname is not always a good solution, because I often have more than one surname of interest on a page. So I'm thinking of putting them in a binder with the pages grouped by city, in chronological order. If I print out the title page from each directory in order to get the publication data, I will have natural divider pages between each year.
I'm also wondering if the same system might be best for excerpts from newspapers -- group all the pages from the same newspaper together, in publication order.
Family Historian serves as the index, after all.
Your thoughts?
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