Big to Small
Of course, it would be nice to know exactly where every single piece of paper should go, right off the bat, but it is totally unrealistic. Sorting every individual page all at once will leave you in a mess worse than what you started with and feeling bogged down and totally overwhelmed. Instead, we're going to start big and work toward the smaller, detailed organization. What the heck does that mean? In the same way it can seem daunting to fulfill a huge goal (i.e. lose weight) it can be daunting to take on a huge project like organization. So, we combat this by breaking it off into bite sized chunks that we can do in our spare time, here or there. Come up with a way to break up your research into about four groups. One method might be to use the surname of each grandparent (each of your grandfathers' surnames and your grandmothers' maiden names). There are other ways to break it up, but generally speaking, this is a good division point.
