Pick Genealogy Etc. When people first get interested in their family history they are not fully prepared for what is about to happen to them.
Genealogy is an addiction.
I would not want to be the one who caused you to spend the rest of your life looking for dead relatives. My first success with organizing my genealogy mess came after a disaster. When one of the saw horses collapsed, one end of the table came crashing down and scattered all of my two-years of genealogy all over the room. My experience of picking up the paper from the floor is where I first began developing a method of organizing that mess. So, if you truly want to get organized too, then I suggest that you start by throwing your entire paper collection into one large pile in the center of a room.