Mary, You are right these issues have come up. In the instance of the boarder I used the target person's name. In the issue of more than one family on the page I made a copy (hard drive space is cheap). In the instance of one family spanning two pages I used the page number on the census page after the name. As long as I follow this convention I can name a new file without checking anything. See what families are in the same county city etc., just by looking at my Census file. I use the same naming convention for my census sources in Legacy. This is just how I do it. I have an analog not digital brain so I put as much info into the name as possible. G.C.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of M. Brenzel Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 4:43 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Linking files to Legacy 6.0 So what do you do if you later find another family on the same page as DorseyWE? Do you make another copy of the same page but name it for the head of that household? And what about when the person you are connected to is a boarder in a house? Have the file named for the head of household who has no connection whatsoever to your family? Just curious because I find it easier to have generic names for my documents so that I can attach them to as many people as necessary. Mary -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 1:56 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Cc: Penny Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Linking files to Legacy 6.0 All of my census images are in this format. Year US Census, State, County, City or Militia Dist, last name and initial of head of household. Example: 1880 US Census, Georgia, Clarke, Athens, DorseyWE They then line up by Date and Location and are easily found. Works for me. Most of my Census images have been saved in .gif or .tiff format but it does not matter as I sort by image name not type. ---- 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 > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "JLB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 10:25 PM > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Linking files to Legacy 6.0 > > > >I like to link pictures to sources so mostly I do source records as > >graphics. Most of my Master Sources exist as pdf as they're multiple pages > >of text, for example a cemetery listing. All are linked by number using the > >MRIN filing system, which also cross-references to a folder full of the > >digitized versions. Pretty big folder but it works fine. If you haven't > >read about it yet: > > > > http://www3.telus.net/Jgen/2007-06-01-mrin_filing_revisited.shtml > > > > I would say the only benefit to pdf's as far as Legacy goes is being able > > to open them directly from a gallery inside Legacy. Generally I would copy > > and paste the text directly into the appropriate Notes field. There are > > some documents (mixed text and graphics) that don't easily fit in any of > > the above solutions. I put those into the general organization of my > > family history which is set up in a family folder structure that is > > defined the same way in Passage Express. I think it comes down to how you > > imagine sharing your history. > > > > JL > > JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists > > http://www3.telus.net/Jgen/jlog.html > > > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp