Alan Jones wrote >I have realized that as I capture more and more sources electronically >that I don't have a good naming scheme or file folder organization >system to find the files later. I may have an image of source document >that has information on several people or I may 5 or 6 source documents >for 1 person.
I have folders named with a generic title, such as Certificates or Newspaper Articles or Census Images. Within them I have sub-folders such as Birth Certificates, Marriage Certificates etc. Most file names begin with an abbreviation based on the type of document and include the name(s) of the people concerned (unless there are too many to name them all and the RIN(s), so BC - Bloggs, Joe 123.jpg for his Birth Certificate and MC - Bloggs, Joe 123 = Adams, Fanny 987.jpg for their Marriage Certificate. Newspaper articles, filed in sub-folders named for the newspaper concerned, comprise the subject's name and RIN, the name of the newspaper and the issue date. I should mention that I did not take into account any possibility of publishing to web pages when I named my files. If you might be going to do this I believe you should avoid spaces and capital letters in your filenames. -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
