Far north Queensland. Wonderful. I've been in the area....hmmm, 3 times so
far. Love going to Australia.
I hear what you are saying. Actually, if you are going with the 8 folder
system, you will have your grandmother as a child in her father's name's
folder but with her marriage, you will find her from that point in her
husband's name's folder. Going further back with her parents will be
increasing their folder size as far back as you choose to go. All branches
will still be in that folder. If you see a list, it will be alpha. This is
an example of one of my picture's file name:
Walden, Irving Holbrook b cert 1871 Mar 31 MA, Worc Co, Milbury, cert copy
It is in the Walden folder (my maternal gfather) but so are Hixons (my
maternal ggmother) so you see. Actually, Irving was one of my gfather's
nephews.
Don't know if you've seen any transcriptions on Family Search. I like them
for their clarity and, as I wish to have .jpgs, our old friend Microsoft
Paint is terrific for putting text down and saving as .jpg.
My, I do get wordy,
Jane in Phoenix
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From: LegacyUserGroup <[email protected]> On Behalf Of
June
Sent: Friday, May 8, 2020 8:18 PM
To: 'Legacy User Group' <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Naming Images and documents
Thanks Jane - I do like your idea of keeping the folders in the direct lines
- so 8 grandparent's as you are doing. That makes it neat and easily
searchable if the labelling has been done correctly and consistently. It
will make it easy to know which folder to go to straight away rather than
search through goodness knows how many birth certificates etc as I currently
do.
Another query though please. If we have Thomas Smith (grandfather) and he
marries Susan Marston (grandmother) that is two folders for 2 grandparents.
I could then open 2 more folders one for Susan Marston's father (my great
grandfather) and one for Susan's mother (my great grandmother).
I could then do a sub folder for Thomas Smith's father - keeping each
generation of direct line Smith in a sub folder of my grandfather, I could
also then create sub folders for her generation. I do see that this would
lead me to have more folders/sub folder. and would appear, if I have read it
correctly, to be different to what you are doing by keeping the 8 direct
lines only. That's if I've understood you, apologies if not.
I think I could label the images something like
SmithThomas4xgfb1885BapCRotherham. But I need to work on the labelling. Some
of the folders might only have 1 or 2 images in depending how far back they
are.
Let me know what you think and I will give it a trial with a few images and
see how it looks and works.
Many thanks for your suggestions and help.
June in far North Queensland
-----Original Message-----
From: LegacyUserGroup <[email protected]> On Behalf Of
Jane Linkswiler
Sent: Saturday, 9 May 2020 11:57 AM
To: 'Legacy User Group' <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Naming Images and documents
I, for one, still just have folders in the 8 grandparent's names. It is
conceivable that that might change and if it does......can't do subfolder to
the father, that would tell me to make subfolders for all children which
will just get messy. For me. So far, I just like the name followed by a b
date.
Let me know what you decide and why, please.
Jane in Phoenix
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