Legacy - Organising your photos, census images and scanned certificates

The first thing you need to do is to get organised.

You need to start off by creating a folder to keep your things in, and making sub folders within that one. It is very easy to do. Decide where you want to store the information, maybe in My Documents, or on the desktop, so it is handy. I will use the desktop as an example.

• On the desktop (screen) point your mouse to any bit of space where there is not a symbol.

• Right click and a menu appears. Move down to NEW and move the mouse to the right following the arrow, a second list appears, left click on FOLDER

• A symbol appears which looks like a yellow paper folder. Underneath it highlighted in blue it says new folder. Just type something like Family History in there. You don’t need to delete the old words, just overtype. Then move your mouse out to anywhere else on the desktop and click, you then have the storage folder you need; it will stay on your desktop.

• You now need to make some little folders inside this one for each family.

• So double left click on the new folder symbol which you have just made. It will open up. Put your mouse anywhere in the large white space and right click. You get the same list as before Choose NEW, then FOLDER and call this one Bloggs, or whatever your first family name is.. Once you have done that just click in the big white space and there you have your first sub folder.

• Make other folders in exactly the same way for all the main families in your tree.

• Should you mistype a name on the folder, you need to know how to alter it. You can’t just click on the name and retype it. You right click on the yellow folder symbol and look to the bottom of the list where it says rename, if you click on this you get the blue highlight again and can put your mistake right.

• Use these folders to store all of your images, make a new folder every time you come across a new family.

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