Ellen, it is most important to use a system that works for you and your family. Lisa has a pretty detailed list. Most of us do not need all those subcategories. She has good suggestions. As I recall she is the one who files people with their birth family until they marry - always an issue for women.
Remember, there is no harm in putting a copy of the file in two locations if that helps you find it. On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 5:42 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm wondering if you are also intending to discuss "Organizing Your Hard > Drive". If you do a search for that online, you should bring up something > from Genealogy Gems in their archives. Lisa Louise Cooke has two podcasts on > this topic. Here is what I did for my files based upon her suggested and my > customizing. I have a file in my computer called Genealogy. In that file I > have folders for: > > Charts & Forms > Genealogical Societies > Geographic Materials > History Topics > Research Trips > Surnames > Timelines > > Under Surnames I have folders for each surname. In each surname I have files > for: > > Births > Book Info > Census > Childhood & Education (mostly scans of photos and documents) > Churches > Correspondence > Deaths-Obits-Graves (mostly photos and scans) > Family Bibles > Geography-Maps (mostly for that surname) > Heraldry > History of Family Members > History of the Times > Immigration > Interviews and Doc Reviews (including Legacy documents being reviewed by > relatives for changes, corrections, additions) > Land Records & Homesteads > Legacy files > Marriage (including databases of county marriage records) > Military > Misc Docs > Misc Photos > Newspapers > Occupations > Reunion > Stats-Lists-Mailing Info > Wills & Estates > > If I have a photo or scan of a person in that surname, I am putting it under > the category above rather than in a photos file. I am finding it so much > easier to locate things that I have digitized with this system. Also I have > broken out my VERY large family's surname file from this larger Genealogy > file because it is so large with all of the photos and scans. I was using > my external hard drive for the storage of the photos, but that was difficult > to have everything together when transferring between my desktop and laptop. > My husband wanted me to keep everything together so breaking it up seems to > make it more manageable. I transfer it between computers with my thumb drive > still at this point. > > God bless, > Ellen 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
