Jenny M Benson wrote: > Alan Jones wrote >> I have realized that as I capture more and more sources >> electronically that I don't have a good naming scheme or file folder >> organization system to find the files later. I may have an image of >> source document that has information on several people or I may 5 or >> 6 source documents for 1 person. > > I have folders named with a generic title, such as Certificates or > Newspaper Articles or Census Images. Within them I have sub-folders > such as Birth Certificates, Marriage Certificates etc. > > Most file names begin with an abbreviation based on the type of > document and include the name(s) of the people concerned (unless > there are too many to name them all and the RIN(s), so BC - Bloggs, > Joe 123.jpg for his Birth Certificate and MC - Bloggs, Joe 123 = > Adams, Fanny 987.jpg for their Marriage Certificate. > > Newspaper articles, filed in sub-folders named for the newspaper > concerned, comprise the subject's name and RIN, the name of the > newspaper and the issue date. > > I should mention that I did not take into account any possibility of > publishing to web pages when I named my files. If you might be going > to do this I believe you should avoid spaces and capital letters in > your filenames.
Jenny, And commas. In fact best only to have underscores and hyphens if webpage usage may be a present or future possibility. Avoiding capital letters is not too important, providing that one remembers that Windows regards a capital and lower case letter as being the same - but this applies whether or not webpage use is intended. Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________ *New* Tutorial: Add Location Pins to Google Earth http://www.fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw And the Fergusons of N.W. England ____________________________________________________ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
