Master Accreditation of the Genealogical Institute M.A.G.I. Course Lesson #2 To Organize or Not to Organize
Subtitle: Course Lesson #2 To Organize or Not to Organize
Publisher: Floyd Thomas Pratt F.H.C., M.A.G.I.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bradenton, Manatee, Florida, United States
Format: pdf
Number of pages: 18
Description: M.A.G.I. Course #2 instructs the researcher with the techniques of organizing and preserving their hard earned research data. Whether their research comprises of material in folders, files or boxes stored as various documents, forms, pictures, maps, newspapers articles or downloaded material from the internet, all have accumulated too much hard copy data and this vital expensive research data needs to be converted to digital and preserved for posterity.   

This course will address four distinct areas and offer proper procedures concerning organizing and preserving this hard research data. 

[1] First storing hard physical research data 
[2] Second converting physical data to digital form 
[3] Organizing digital research material on your computer 
[4] Safely backing up this data for preservation purposes
Table of contents: title: Objective; title: Our Research History; title: Storing hard physical research data…; title: Converting our hard research data to digital form…; title: Organizing digital research material on your computer…; title: Phase 1: How to organize your digital files on your computer…; title: Phase 2: [Surname] Master Family; title: Phase 3: Creating Individual Family Folders…; title: What are the Advantages of this method?; title: Let’s talk more about scanning…; title: Safely backing up this data for preservation purposes; title: In closing; title: Additional Material of Interest