When I attach a document to the source detail, I add a FileID that matches the file name without the file extension.
My system was presented a few years ago by Geoff. It should be in the Legacy News archives. Sent from my iPad On Aug 31, 2011, at 11:12 AM, Paula Ryburn <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Mary. I've been wrestling with how to sort/file things, and I really > like doing it by surname, so I can see everything for each family (and it > matches the 'color' approach). It seems my census data is the only thing > that doesn't always fall neatly into a particular family. So, I'm not (yet) > willing to abandon a surname approach. > > Do you use a file ID or something to help you find it when you need it? Or do > you just look at things from within Legacy? > > (There is a very real possibility I am over-analyzing this! lol) > > --Paula in Texas > Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman > Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field > Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind Hopkins Hughes > Hurdle Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts > Roche Ryburn Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams > > > From: M. Brenzel <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wed, August 31, 2011 10:04:18 AM > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Source Name Filing System > > Filing by document type eliminates the need for duplicate copies of both > paper and digital documents. Using a generic file name also helps in that > regard. In other words, don't put any surnames or other specific details in > the file name. > > I have been doing that for years and have had no problems with my system. > > Mary > > Sent from my iPad > > On Aug 31, 2011, at 10:56 AM, Paula Ryburn <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Just re-read many posts in the archives, but still have one issue pertaining >> to how to organize files in folders (digital or hard-copy). >> >> This question is for those of you who organize your folders by surname, not >> by document type. >> >> How have you "filed" your census images/transcriptions/data? I have cases >> where not only do two brothers (same surname) live near enough to be on the >> same page, but also where several families that are related (if not at the >> time of that census, then later when one's son married another's daughter) >> are on the same page (different surnames). >> >> >> Do you keep a copy of each in each family's folder? >> >> >> >> I'm about to start an "organization" project and would welcome your quick >> input on this question. >> >> >> --Paula in Texas >> Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman >> Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field >> Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind Hopkins Hughes >> Hurdle Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts >> Roche Ryburn Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams >> >> >> > > > 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 > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on > our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
