Apologies, this isn't a nice puzzle to solve, but a boring tech question.
I'm in the process of digitising years of family history research which is sitting in paper files. I'm trying to declutter and this is by far my most time consuming task. It's taken months so far and it's become a full time job.
I have lots of research into various branches of the family, some are directly connected to the family and will go on the tree, however some can't be connected yet and may never be. I don't want to chuck this research and would like to use Genealogy software to preserve it. However I'm struggling with how to organise it.
Ideally I would start a separate file, but this could cause issues later when/if I can join these families to my tree. I've tried to find out if files can be merged, but I don't think it's possible. Does anyone know if this can be done?
Alternatively I could add these families on the main file alongside my tree and just have them floating around until I can do something with them. Rather than trees these are like little branches of various sizes.
Also does anyone put random trees on Ancestry if they are not necessarily a direct part of your tree? For instance I have a lot of in person research for the Goldthorp family in Shelley/Shepley which may be useful to someone, but it can't go on my tree. It took time and money to get this stuff before internet resources really took off and I can't put it in the bin.
I appreciate any thoughts on this incredibly boring problem.