In recently added programming, File Not Found, Organizing Your Computer, Amy Johnson Crow provides genies with the tools that allow us to “stop searching our files and start searching for our ancestors”. Og wants to be found, so I really like this idea! In this series of programs from the 2006 BYU Genealogy and Technology Conference, we’re taught that there’s no one “right way” to organize genealogical files on your computer, but to devise a method that makes sense to you. With this in mind, she establishes the importance of folders (our friends), sub-folders (our sub-friends – only teasing -- Og make joke!), and the consistent use of naming conventions. Employing just a few of her hints will help you clean up your desktop, document, and family files and folders, and by putting these files in a deliberate order, you’ll have a much easier time accessing information as needed throughout the year.
Og from Roots Television