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    Apr 21, 2020 4 minutes
    by RICK CRUME

    If you do much family history research, you’ve probably accumulated hundreds—maybe even thousands—of digital files: historical records, excerpts from books you have found online, scanned family photographs and pictures of gravestones made with a digital camera. With all that data, keeping your digital files organized can feel like an overwhelming task.

    You need a standard system for organizing those records—plus some way to label photographs with names, dates and places. You also need to be able to find a particular record or photograph when you need it. Read on for tips and tools that will help bring order to all the family history files on your computer.

    ADD CUSTOM NAMES TO ELECTRONIC FILES.

    When you scan a photograph or find a historical record

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