Paula, I think that's a good idea to put the first marriage behind the second. In my mind, to keep everything straight, I tend to think of the Line I'm researching and make that the determining factor on how I will look at things and set up my folders, etc.
Not to cause a big debate here, but I try to save myself as much time and trouble as possible, so when I file anything I think about the easiest way for me to find something. So, yes, I do file the census in the surname folder for each family mentioned on that page(s). I feel that hard disk space is fairly cheap compared to the aggravation I'm caused when I can't find something. For example, my Mom called today with a question about the censuses I had listed in a Legacy report I had given her (she was actually reading it!) and without having to think about it while I was talking to her, I looked in the documents folder for the Surname and all the censuses were there for me to look at and answer her question. But two of the censuses had other family relations living next door and down the street, and those families had the same census in their folders. I guess it is easiest for me to have everything together by name - it's the way I think about genealogy. As for pictures, I keep my pictures by surname in folders in my Pictures folder, separate from those in the Legacy folder. First, I have many more pictures than I will put into Legacy and second, I want to keep my untouched-up photos separate. Every picture in the Legacy folder I have had to crop or touch-up. Ah, documents. Presently, they are not in the Legacy folder on my computer. I have followed the pros and cons here, but I already had my structure set up before I started using Legacy, and I felt if I couldn't see them in Legacy reports, and yet still link them within Legacy, it was fine. I know there have been changes in Legacy, so if I can print documents in a Legacy report I will think about having them the Legacy folder. Hope this help. Faith ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paula Ryburn" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 7:05:17 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Source Name Filing System Faith, I do have a (at least one) case where the first husband died and the wife remarried... and I am descended from this second marriage--! I doubt I will ever pursue details on the first family, so what do you think of putting the first marriage folder into/behind/under the existing folder for the second marriage, because that's the one that's interesting to me? --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: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Sent: Fri, July 22, 2011 10:32:48 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Source Name Filing System <snip> <snip> I haven't yet found where a father died and the mother remarried and had children with the new husband - in my families the mother dies and father remarries. If the husband dies and wife remarries and has children with the new husband I probably will add a new FOLDER for the new couple under the existing folder in order to keep the family relationship intact, (and not make myself crazy). <snip> 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
