Hi David, I'm trying to get all my scanned family photos into some sort of order and I'm struggling to define what should go where. Could I pick your experienced IT brain please? I don't have fancy photographic software, but I do have Paintshop and Picassa. I'm not sure I like Picassa - it's a bit to secretive about what it's doing. In your experience, is it better to keep all the photos with the filenames they started with and just keep them in one place with tags to indicate what they are, or should I be a bit more creative and try and split them into categories/families/subject? The original scans are in .tiff format, but I think .jpg is probably better to attach to FH. Should I keep these with the originals or separately? Currently, they are driving me nuts because they are spread around a bit and I'm sure that's going to result in multiple duplications long term. I also have a large collection of downloaded documents, which I think I will put into directories indicating their purpose (BMD etc) split down again into family branches where possible. What do you think? Any advice gratefully received. Lesley On 03/01/2016 09:33, D C Banks via wrote: > Hello Adrian > > Mounts soapbox > > I have been in 'IT' for 35 years and anathema is the very word I have been > looking for. I have spent countless hours convincing people NOT to hold the > same data in more than one place. Whilst we are all using FH (and any other > software) for family history we should accept the principles of the software > system and how it handles data collection. After all, that's all family > history is at it's lowest level, a database. This does not mean you have to > abandon the foibles, sheer nonsense, duplication, untruths, misleading > transcriptions etc etc. which all go to make genealogy 'fun'. > > Additionally, how many times do you see the term 'ibid' in a book - every > occurrence of ibid = many Citations, one Source. > > Regarding GEDCOM, the Citation/Source conforms to the basic principles so on > this point it is correct how they are handled. It is the users that are > choosing to 'mishandle' by duplicating data. > > Dismounts soapbox > > Happy New Year to everyone, David >