As we do family research, we soon find that we have a considerable amount of documents, both paper and electronic media.  We soon find how valuable a scanner is.  We scan documents and store them in folders on our PC.   We also store paper files.  We then begin to see that our paper folders and our electronic folders often have the same name and the same type of material.  We might have a folder on our PC labeled "Obituaries" and have the same folder in a file cabinet.  The one continues obituaries that we copied from on-line sources and the other clippings from newspapers or copies we made from a file at a library.

The following is a list of many of the documents we save and use in research: