Keith nuttle <keith_nuttle@sbcglobal.net> wrote in news:l85uj.11524$J41.11499@newssvr14.news.prodigy.net: > I have been actively working on my family's genealogy for > about a year. > One of the problems that has come up is organization. I > have > downloaded images of census and such and have it fairly well > organized. > > My big problem is emails from other researchers. What are the > techniques other researcher use for this information so it is > independent of the email program? > > Organized so the information can be easily found. > > > What file type is best. pdf. eml, etc. > I organize my digital files by surname, and then I have folders for census images, legal documents, correspondence, and so on. Don't waste time with ".eml" files, hardly anything opens them. PDF is probably your best bet, or copy and past the content into a text document. -- }:-) Christopher Jahn {:-( http://soflatheatre.blogspot.com/ No matter how bad it is, there's always worse.