Very nice; this is quite similar to how I do it but I think I will incorporate more of your ideas to make it a bit more concise and standardized. Thank you for sharing. Kathy
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Rick Merrill <[email protected]> wrote: > After reading how all ya'll store you images I think I must the only one > doing it my way. Let me explain. > > I first started filing them by MRIN, but that only lasted a couple of weeks > because it was hard to find the families images that I was looking for. I > always had to referance back to Legacy. > > First off I made a folder on C drive becasue if you put the images under My > Documents and later change operating systems the location of My Documents > keeps changing. Next I make a folder for each letter of the alphabet: A, B, > C ect. Then as I have census images for SSDI for Marriage Certificates I > make a folder for the family. > > The format is:LastName, FirstName MiddleName & WifeName MadainName. > > I always put the couples full names, I figure there may be serveral George > Mozingo's. But there is probably only one George Jackson Mozingo who > married a Catherine Cox. But if I ever to come across a second couple with > exatly the same full names then the second one I find will have a 2 or some > thing after the name. > For example: > > C:/Genealogy Records/A > /B > /C > > /M/Mozingo_Andrey-Jackson-&-Angnes-Mae-Smith > /M/Mozingo_George-Jackson-&-Catherine-Cox > /Mozingo_George-Washington-&-Annie-Dunnam > > Then in each folder I lable the images in like manner: > > Mozingo_George-Jackson-&-Catherine-Cox-census-1880 > Mozingo_George-Jackson-&-Catherine-Cox-census-1900 > Mozingo_George-Jackson-&-Catherine-Cox-census-1920 > Mozingo_George-Jackson-&-Catherine-Cox-marriage-certificate > Mozingo_George-Jackson-SSDI > Mozingo_Catherine-Cox-SSDI > > By doing it this way I can go straight to the family I want and see what I > have on the family and see what I might be missing, such as the 1910 census > for George and Catherine Mozingo. > > Rick Merrill > > > > > 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 > > > > -- Kathy Meyer "To reach a goal you have never before attained, you must do things you have never before done." --Richard G. Scott, "Finding the Way Back," Ensign, May 1990, 74 Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ~ Albert Einstein 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
