I have mine organized by surname with subfolders, and it works well for me.
For example: Smith Family --Smith cemetery records --Smith census records --Smith correspondence --Smith genealogy pics --Smith land records --Smith military records --Smith research --Smith tombstone pics --Smith vital records --Smith wills & probate Mary On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Sentz <[email protected]> wrote: > I am in the process of deciding how to best reorganize things, since I > don't have that many individual records yet and need to do some major clean > up with my source citations. Prior to getting Legacy, I set up > 2 Genealogy folders with sub folders by Surname and then Surname with the > head of household under both My Documents and My Photos in Windows 7. In > my mind at the time I was thinking that Pictures/Photos should be separate > from images of documents, census records, family documents, death > records, birth records, etc. Using the Surname organization seems to > work along with the "filing cabinet" in my head so that I could find things > easily. How do some of you organize your photos and scanned docs? Do you > put them in the same "Picture" folders? Seems like it would be more > efficient, eventhough they may be a different type of media. > > Geoff Rasmusen uses the Geographic filing system. I see the logic behind > doing this, but will likely stick with the Surname filing for now. > > Cathy > > Researching Conger, Landmark, Lilly, Hobaugh, Hoyle, Kent, Lindquist, > Nyberg, Petrie, Seeley, Sentz et al > > > 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
