On 11 Jun 2006  Kay Keating wrote:

> I'm now in the process of renaming files where I used "spaces" and
> "dashes": 
>
> C://Program Files/Legacy/images/census/
>       Keating_1900_James_LA.jpg
>       Keating_1910_James_LA.jpg 
>       Keating_1920_James_GA.jpg
>       Keating_1930_James_MD.jpg  

> QUESTION:  Am I on the right track?

I use basically the same system but without the underscores.  My 
major family lines all have a different surname letter so I prefix 
the census graphic name with that letter.  For example the census 
pages for all my Hartrum/Hotrum lines are prefixed with an H and 
become H1920NJn.jpg where the "n" is a character from 0 to 9 and then 
a to z -- I haven't yet needed more than 36 codes for one state or 
province but if I did I'd use other special characters.  Likewise my 
Naylor line in the UK has census files such as N1921LINn.jpg when LIN 
is the Chapman code for Lincolnshire county.  The only exception I 
make is when a family runs into a second census page then the files 
would have an extra suffix letter a or b so H1920NJna and H1920NJnb.

The reason I don't like underscores in anything (including e-mail 
addresses and URLs) is if they are printed and the whole name 
underlined then the underscore appears to be a space.

Hope this makes sense.

Cheers, -- Dave N.
-- 
  David Naylor, Halton Hills, Ontario, Canada. 
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