My Folders: Organize Your Research

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My Folders let you save records you find on Genealogy Québec and organize them into custom folders.
Organize your finds your way: by person, family, place, parish, lineage, or research project.

• Access My Folders
• Create and manage folders
  • Create a folder
  • Edit a folder and add a description
  • Delete a folder
  • Naming your folders
• Save a record to a folder
  • From a record page
  • From My Folders
• Remove a record from a folder
• Browsing My Folders
  • Find a folder
  • Pagination and navigation
  • Limits
• Additional information and FAQ
  • Institutional access
  • Expired subscription
  • Privacy
  • Legacy Tools

Access My Folders

To access your folders, sign in to your account, then:

• Click your username in the top-right corner.
• In the drop-down menu, click My Folders.

Create and manage folders

Create a folder

1. In My Folders, click + New folder.
2. Enter a name and click Save.

Edit a folder and add a description

1. Open the folder you want to edit.
2. Click Edit folder (gear icon).
3. Update the name and/or add a description, and click Save.
   
   You can change a folder’s name and description at any time.

Delete a folder

1. Open the folder you want to delete.
2. Click Edit folder (gear icon).
3. Click Delete folder, then confirm. This action cannot be undone.

Naming your folders

Use clear, descriptive folder names so you can find them quickly. You can name folders by person, family, region, parish, or lineage—whatever matches your workflow. Here are some suggestions:

• Tremblay family
• Descendants of Marie Gagnon
• Notre-Dame Parish (Montréal)
• Project: maternal line
• Louis Cyr

Save a record to a folder

From a record page

1. Go to the page of the record you want to save.
2. Click Save, then select the folder you want. You can also create a new folder directly from this drop-down menu.
3. You can save the same record to multiple folders.

From My Folders

1. In one of your folders, find the record you want to add to another folder, then click the + icon.
2. The Add to a folder menu opens. Select the folder or folders you want to add the record to.

Remove a record from a folder

1. Open My Folders and select the folder you want.
2. Click the trash icon on the record you want to remove.
   
   The record is removed from the current folder only.

Browsing My Folders

Find a folder

The search bar lets you search your folders by name—start typing to narrow the list.

Pagination and navigation

Up to 20 folders are shown at a time in the navigation panel.
Within a folder, up to 20 records are shown per page, in the order they were added (most recent first).

Limits

You can create up to 500 folders on your account.
A maximum of 200 records can be added to each folder.

Additional information and FAQ

Institutional access

My Folders isn’t available when you’re using the site through an institutional access (library, university, etc.).

Expired subscription

Even if your subscription has expired, you can still access My Folders and continue to manage and view your folders.
However, you’ll need to resubscribe to view the full record pages on the site—only the previews remain visible in your folders.

Privacy

Your folders are private and only visible within your account. Other Genealogy Quebec members can’t access them.

Legacy Tools

My Folders isn’t available in Genealogy Québec’s Legacy Tools. You can only save records found through the Global Search engine.