I started this long ago for a naming convention: LASTNAME_FirstMiddleNickMaiden~AbbrevSource~yyyy-mm-dd~Other.jpg Examples: SMITH_JohnPaul~WichitaEagle~2012-08-22~OnLine.jpg SMITH_SallyJaneJones~HometownCem~2012-08-22~Tombstone.jpg SMITH_FamilyGroup~Photo~1915Circa~MarionKS.jpg SMITH_Roger~WilsonCoHist~1905~Pg33.pdf JONES_BettySmith~~2012-08-22~.pdf BROWN_Felix~JohnsonFH~2012-08-22~ReqLetter.doc I keep all obits in an OBITS folder, Tombstones in CEMETERY - etc and those under family names within a top GENEALOGY folder. For obits the date is the date of publication, for books the copyright date, for others it might just be the date of entry, whatever. However the nice thing then is you can do a standard Windows search on the top GENEALOGY folder group and find all the SMITHs even if it is a maiden name without going into each folder even across family lines. Also using the ~ and keeping that structure (3 per filename) even if you don't "fill in all the blanks", is great because I can import the list of file name into Excel (I do using the freebie ASAP utilities for Excel) and I have a quick index of everything and I can then do a "text to columns" using the ~ as a delimiter and I can do further groupings. Not using any spaces in my file names helps eliminate headaches if I need to use the file name as a hyperlink. I use this for all my research on Wilson County Kansas as well and when I get a request from someone it is EXTREMELY easy to pull out everything I have on the HASS family across all cemeteries, obituaries, newspaper articles, marriage certificates, GAR registers, etc. Just my thoughts, Gene Ewert Neodesha, KS