New to Rootsmagic - how to handle media files from Ancestry

[nkess]

Gail there is no right or wrong way to set up your media folders/ sub folders–it is all up to what you want…

Some people divide it into to Census/ Marriage/ Birth etc. and some into family units–here is another good post to read…

Organizing Media and Data

If you’re interested, here’s how I organize my media. Since one of your goals is to make people easier to locate, my method might give you some ideas. First, I store media by macroscopic categories. Within those categories, there may be sub-categories. For example, in the Census folders, there are further subs for year. See screen cap: [01] For the media themselves, I name them by what the source is. Using Census as an example again, the typical filename goes from largest to smallest compo…

But I am getting the idea you want to do both-- subfolders for each major family line and then record type under each major family line-- that would work just fine also-- you could even do a separate sub folder for your father’s sister and mother’s brother who married or even sub folders for every sibling in a line…

In my opinion, the hard part would be setting up the folders and getting what media you already have in the right sub folders