Subjects of your genealogy research are often found in records of places. Censuses, city directories, and such are about all the people in a place, not just your person of interest. Because of this I recommend storing copies of these records within the places folders when using my recommended genealogy file and folder organization system for Mac. That doesn’t mean the references to your family aren’t important. You want to be able to quickly find records in which your subjects appear and with this system you can.
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Genealogy File and Folder Organization System for Mac, Part 5
Organizing genealogy files about more than one person can be tricky, frustrating, and can waste space. Using my recommended genealogy folder system for Mac along with Finder aliases ends all that.
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Genealogy File and Folder Organization System for Mac, Part 4
Learn how to use Macintosh Finder aliases to save time and space when you have files related to one person with multiple names, for instance married and maiden names. This will help you stay organized so that your genealogy research will go faster and smoother.
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Genealogy File and Folder Organization System for Mac, Part 3
This screencast completes the series on how to create a system of folders in which to store your genealogy and family history files. In future articles I’ll show you the secret sauce that will make this folder system even more valuable.
The video will show you step-by-step, how to create a folder for surnames and folders for people with that name. It also presents a specific naming convention for the people folders that eliminates confusion over different people with the same name.
Next article in the series: Genealogy File and Folder Organization System for Mac, Part 4, People with Multiple Names.
Genealogy File and Folder Organization System for Mac, Part 2
In this video I walk you through creating a folder system on your Mac for genealogy files about places, such as city directories.
In later videos I’ll show you a powerful way to connect the files and folders in this genealogy folder system. It will help you know where to put files as your research uncovers them and to find them after they’ve been stored.
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