Ila East wrote
I would disagree with the statement below. I have pictures in two main
folders, with subfolders. I have one in
documents/genealogy/gravestones. The others I have in pictures/family
and various surnames. I have no problem with them displaying in Legacy
or Legacy finding them when I test the multimedia file locations.
I, too have pictures in two quite distinct places - I have photographs
of people and places and so in sub-folders within C:\Legacy\Pictures and
I have Census images, scans of certificates, information copies from web
pages, etc, which are all attached to Sources stored in numerous folders
and sub-folders within C:\genes.
I see that at the moment I don't have anything in C:\Legacy\Docs which
is slightly odd because I thought I had put some files in there! I have
no doubt I will use that folder in the future.
As for naming of pictures and documents, which is mentioned elsewhere,
this is something I wish I'd given a lot more thought to when I first
started! I am gradually changing filenames to more sensible and
easily-findable ones. Photos of individuals are "Surname, forenames
RIN" with some further identifier as required, such as "Paul, Eileen
Margaret 203 aged 6" or "Bloor, William Henry 166 in Investiture
uniform". Pictures of a wedding couple are "groom surname, groom
forenames RIN = bride surname, bride forenames RIN". Pictures of
headstones, memorials etc are all together in a Graves folder, so each
file is named "Gravestone - surname, forenames RIN" or "Memorial -
surname, forenames RIN."
This is still very much a work in progress! One thing I have found
useful is having a set of "index pages" for all my group photos. On an
A4 sheet I print a copy of the picture and underneath the names of all
the people depicted, along with their UserID (which is an identifier
plus RIN, eg B7.149) working from left to right and in rows from top to
bottom. I title each page with a simple identifier such as "Horatio,
Gertrude and their Children" or "Henry & Margaret Silver Wedding 1900"
and in the header I print the full path and filename of the electronic
version of that photograph.
--
Jenny M Benson
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