tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post8241745486616119763..comments2024-03-21T19:08:05.737-07:00Comments on Genealogy's Star: What do I do with all that genealogy stuff once it's in my computer?James Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02989059644120454647noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post-56426238226406596092010-11-17T05:44:20.667-07:002010-11-17T05:44:20.667-07:00I've been thinking about this post for almost ...I've been thinking about this post for almost a week now and am close to taking the plunge. However, how do you handle a group of photos that, in my opinion, need to be contained as a collection? For example, I have several 19th century photo albums in which only some of the photos are identified. I revisit them on occasion and the fact that I know that a particular photo was in Grandma So-and-So's album has helped me narrow down who may be the subject. Looking at them in the context of a collection is important to me, I think.Tracernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post-49672220798569330442010-11-11T13:09:12.153-07:002010-11-11T13:09:12.153-07:00LOL - I have the same problem! I recently bought ...LOL - I have the same problem! I recently bought a 5' tall 4-drawer filing cabinet. All my scanned documents are named in the same order - B for Birth, or D for Death (M for Marriage, C for Census etc), followed by the ancestor's year of birth or death, followed by the ancestor's name. I have other "codes" for Newspaper clippings, Monumental Inscriptions (from headstones), Wills & Testaments, but they all follow the same routine and I file them as such. I can then go to my Source Summary (I use Family Historian as my default database) and print to PDF a searchable Master List of Source Documents, and I file the docs in this order. The name in the PDF matches the file in the drawer in the cabinet, so I can pull the original out easily. I can also attach a scanned copy of each document to each citation in the database, which means I never have to pull out the original in future, providing my database is OK. The only improvement I can see would be to do away with keeping the originals, but I can't see me disposing of copies that I paid for anytime soon, and there's always the shelf life of 'CD's/DVD's to think about :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post-30246010307116830002010-11-11T06:33:47.746-07:002010-11-11T06:33:47.746-07:00You have put a saner slant on my recent insane pos...You have put a saner slant on my recent insane posting regarding organization.<br /><br />Obviously I deserve compensation or credit somehow. You're welcome. ;-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com