| Dear Fellow Genealogist,
"What's in a name?" Shakespeare famously wrote. For genealogists, the answer is: quite a lot. Names can help us identify the right person, connect records across languages, and, in the digital age, make sure we can actually find that photograph we carefully scanned six months ago. Nothing humbles a genealogist much like knowing the image exists somewhere on their computer with a name like scan0047-08-13-2026.jpg.
In today's newsletter, we highlight a simple file-naming system for digital images that can make your genealogy research (and scans, documents and photos) much easier to organize, search and use.
We also share a name translation chart for comparing given names across languages and explore how using county histories can help you put names to the people, places and stories surrounding your ancestors.
Fixing my file names before they become someone else's problem,
— Katharine, Digital Editor of Family Tree Magazine
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