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From: "Teresa Elliott" <>
Subject: RE: [ROOTS-L] Need Advice on Organizing Items
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:01:22 -0500
In-Reply-To: <6ABE2315.419D37DB.3CE59F23@cs.com>


Here's what I sent Bill earlier.
I my C directory is a file called PICTURES. Under PICTURES are individual
folders for each SURNAME. Under those folders are folders for DEEDS, WILLS,
CENSUS, MILITARY... So a file named, C:/PICTURES/DOE/WILL/John.jpg would be
a will image for John Doe. Its very easy to follow and if a cousin wants my
images, I can just copy all that surname images.

Also if you'd just like to get those papers organized, I started an
organizational checklist for each month on my website below. Scroll down to
August (no matter when you start, August is the month to start with).
Hopefully I will be adding to them this year. Not the most organized
either, so I got distracted. <G> But most of what you need to build upon is
there, you just have to continue it out each month after that.
Teresa Ghee Elliott All links start with
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rutherfordcemetery and then add

Rutherford Co., TN cemeteries: see above

TMG sentence structures: /TMG.html

Descendants of James Edde of Bedford County, TN /EDDE/index.htm


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Subject: RE: [ROOTS-L] Need Advice on Organizing Items

This is a great question! I'd like to request that any responses be sent to
the list. I'd like to see the information and suggestions also.

-Liz McGough

wrote:

>It's now time to begin the formidible task of organizing all my documents,
>pictures, and related items gathered over the past few years. I will be
>appreciative of any advice, resource info, on how to organize not only the
>ancestral information, but how to best store old journals, documents,
>newspaper clippings etc. My goal is that each of my three children will
have
>a CD or DVD comlete with the ingormation I have gathered, but one of them
>will undoubtedly be the inheritor of the originnal documents. I'm aware of
>many of the software programs out there, but I'm really banking on your
good
>and practiced advice.
>
>Bill Brewer
>
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>WOW! Homepage (http://www.wowway.com)
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