Hi, Penny --
You don't mention where you download your census images from, so this
might not work for you. I use HeritageQuest.
When you pull up the image, there's an option to download it. Select view
and it will open in a PDF. When you go to save it, the National Archives
series, roll and page are at the end of the link. I eliminate everything
before that and save them according to the series number, etc. This makes
it quick to save and I don't have to worry about typos when saving them.
I had "lost" a few things I know are there just because I couldn't find
them. It also makes them easy to find, since that information is in the
cite.
I tried saving them by family, etc. (I use a variation of the MRIN system,
too), but I found that cumbersome. Many of them related to more than one
family and it also made them difficult to find. I use MRIN to save pretty
much everything else, but I store census images differently.
HTH
Kris
On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:16:53 -0500, Penny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Help! I can see how pdf would have it's advantages. Among other things,
it would simplify those census images where one family continues from
the bottom of one page to the top of the next by combining them into one
file.
I can't quite figure out the best way to name my census image pdfs,
though.
Bearing in mind all my census sources are from the U.S. & I want to use
Geoff's MRIN filing system plus J.L.'s way of referencing digital
images in a digital library: What I'd like to do is lump my census
sources into year plus state (or at most, year plus state plus county)
and put the rest of the information into the citation detail. I'm
wondering how best to name the digital census pdfs in my digital
library, given all the above.
I suppose I could just name these pdfs "yearstatenumeral" (1880texas1)
or "yearstate_countynumeral" (1880texas_coryell1) with the consecutive
numbers on the end being the differentiator among them. Do you think
that sounds workable?
Right now, all these images are jpgs and digitally filed in folders of
the family surname(s) found on them; I have duplicates in the many
instances where more than one family surname is found on the same
image. It's going to be a big project to put them into pdfs & rename
them, so I want to be reasonably sure where I'm going with this.
What do y'all suggest? J.L.? Anybody?
Thanks!
Penny
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