How I used my dovetail organizer today

I have been getting ready for a few presentations this month and needed to update my material. I decided rather than use my own dovetail organizer info, I would make up a persons' life and the information they would store in dovetail. Sitting at my computer I was steps away from a file that held alot of my mother and father's estate information. Why not, I thought. This is a real person and real information.
I started going through the file that quite frankly had sat in a desk drawer after I completed both my Mom and Dad's estates. What I found was alot of information I didn't know or didn't remember. Their Marriage Certificate with a list of the guests that attended my parents wedding. A wedding invitation that is 60 years old. Two separate letters of achievement my Dad received from employers. One from Prudential Insurance recognizing him as the top sales person 7 years in a row. One from the Ministry of Consumer Relations for his role in Chairing the United Way Campaign. I found pictures. I found my Dad's Record of Service with the Canadian Armed Forces.I found his certificate he received from his training after the war.
I found my mother's list of prescriptions she took every day. I found my mother's school diary that had little poems from friends with lots of love attached to them.
I called one of my brothers to tell him what I had found. And what I had found out. I took each of these precious documents, letters and more and scanned them into one of the six sections they belonged in. I now have a historical record of alot of the information of my parents I can pass on to my brothers and also to my children. I'll create a few of these secure files on memory sticks and stick it to ever wants one. And when they, or I want to do another memory lane, we will know where to start.
Plus I have a great presentation now!