Elizabeth You always can find the hard questions. Here is a concept that may solve your issue of dividing the pictures easily. This is something I used in the past, but not for this specific need. Name your pictures using a prefix code, which you set-up based specifically on how you wish to divide your data. The more divisions and overlapping of groups, the more complex your prefix code will need to be. Here is a very simple example. Sample family has a father, and 2 spouses each with children. Assume you have ancestors for all three parents, plus related siblings, and descendants. Futher assume you want to split each parent's line for maternal and paternal lines. For simplicity, let FP stand for the father's paternal line, FM for the maternal line, S1P and S1M for spouse 1's lines and similarly for spouse 2. Now you have 6 groups. Assume you want to pull the data for a child of Spouse 2 and include maternal and parental lines. You will need 4 of these groups, FP, FM, S2M, and S2P. In this example, with only 6 groups, a single digit can represent the group code prefix. For more complex schemes, you may use letters and numbers for the codes. It is all in the planning. For your second question, sizing of scans in documents, I don't do it. They do not turn out as desireable. Instead, I reference the document by name in the Citation and let the user open it with their own image viewer. Again, naming of the documents is the key. The above naming prefix code can be used for other documents as well as pictures. I have scanned/downloaded copies of Census pages, maps, Immigration records, Naturalization papers, and BMD certificates with related press clippings. Early on, I found lots of re-work due to under-planning the naming system. Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: "E.Rodier" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 6:44 AM Subject: [FO] pictures in one folder? > One successful book printed with Family Origins 10, about 125 pages in the > final edit from the earliest ancestor and just a few generations. 17 THU > files so only 17 pictures used in a descendant book. Using XP Pro and plenty > of RAM, the whole book report displays on the screen in seconds. > > Mailing lists often have recommendations to keep all names of related > individuals in a single file and all linked pictures in a single folder. > Then comes the problem of identification of pictures in a file of same-name > relatives and sharing the pictures for a specific branch when a file is > split. > > What is the best way to plan multiple Family Origins files with a different > set of pictures for each one and keep them ready to move from one computer > to another -- personal upgrade to XP or sharing with relatives? What method > do you recommend to print source documents large enough to read -- Canadian > 1901 census images are available online for free so there is one image for > each household that can be found without an index. Most relatives lived in > farming communities and small towns at that time and there are scanned > images of 1871-1891 census as well. > > A system of organizing family pictures must be able to expand to "all > available" pictures and scanned source documents. One individual has a > "biography" file with ten scrapbooks divided by time periods and matching > stories for each set of approx. 50 pictures. > > Many older pictures were scanned in 1996 and saved with long file names. -- > Elizabeth > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dick Wells" > > 2. Use an artifical drive letter assignment for the folder name. This > uses > > the DOS SUBST command available through Windows ME. Not available in XP. > > This assigns a drive letter just like Network and real Drives on the > > computer. Regardless of where the pictures are stored, it can be defined > > for each computer using the program. > > > > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > My very basic Windows beginners help: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~adelr/index.htm > basic HTML: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~pasher/

Part of the requirement is to have each sub-folder of pictures able to run as an independant slide show in logical order. That means thousands of pictures are already named yyyy-mm-dd + descriptive title. Early 1996 scans were not linked to any genealogy program so I was able to rename image files at will -- that was my downfall with the first Family Origins 5 file, renaming and losing the links. More likely to last would be a set of "permanent" image folders on the Picture partition of the hard drive that could be copied to a CD-ROM and back to a different hard drive. Would there be any issues with linking a few of the same images to more than one Family Origins 10 file? Copying a set of image files for a 4th cousin (who is using an old version of Reunion/Mac) just requires selecting the folders for our common relatives. A code would be meaningless to another researcher looking for a specific picture. She can probably figure out 1901censusWilkinRich&Jane.jpg or 1890deathWilkinRichSr.jpg even with several Richards in different branches of the family. Codes and numbered image files could end up like unmarked real pictures in a "shoebox." Researchers are already exchanging sets of image files as e-mail attachments and merging files with images. Family Origins GEDCOM with links to images can be opened in a few other genealogy programs. Elizabeth, using Windows XP Pro, FO 10 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dick Wells" > Name your pictures using a prefix code, which you set-up based specifically > on how you wish to divide your data. The more divisions and overlapping of > groups, the more complex your prefix code will need to be.