Organizing the Organizer

[carter.home]

I am using PSE 4 and the organizer in conjunction with my genealogy research. I have hundreds of old photos of ancestors. Along with my normal family photos I have several thousand tagged and dated. My problem is finding a good method for tags for women who get married. Either to always use the maiden name or the married name. Either way I use I am always looking in the wrong place trying to find them. This may seem like a silly question but when you are looking through several hundred names it is not.
Anyway if someone has any ideas I would love to read about it.

Jim

[Ward Grant]

It is possible to use multiple tags for the same picture. Perhaps you could use a generic tag like Wives and then a tag for the maiden name and a tag for the married name. So you could search by Wives when you needed all the pictures or a specific name when you needed just one.

[AMH209]

I'm new to the whole PSE, but I have been doing genealogy for a few years. I would recommend that you list the ladies with the maddien name. As Grant also pointed out, it wouldn't hurt to have a second tag with their married name.

The problem you encounter with using their married name and not the maddien name comes to light when you have a lady that has mutliple marriages. So the married name can change numerous times, but the maddien name will always stay the same. Hope that helps.

[Foxhound]

Ward, you are exactly right in your suggested method! I do this also with mine and I haven't lost track of (yet) any family member. We've got so many different families and the organizer does just what the name implies. Multiple tags is a must around my household. I haven't lost one yet doing it like that :)

[Wendy]

Hi there ..

... and welcome to the forum :)

Now that is a useful tip .. and something I hadn't thought about ..

Wendy