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Ancestoring: Paper Filing Systems

By Michele Simmons Lewis.

Digital Folder Organizing & Naming Made Easy

From Michigan Family Trails by Diane Gould Hall.

FamilySearch Wiki - Organizing Your Files

File Naming Convention for Digital Photos, Scans, and Documents

By Calvin Knight.

Find Your Folks - Color Genealogy Filing System

Folder Marker

A free software that helps to organize files.

Genea-Musings: My Ancestor Family File Folders and File Naming Convention

Genealogy File and Folder Organization System for Mac, Part 1

By Ben Sayer of GenealogyTools.com

Genealogy File and Folder Organization System for Mac, Part 2

By Ben Sayer of GenealogyTools.com

Genealogy File and Folder Organization System for Mac, Part 3

By Ben Sayer of GenealogyTools.com

Genealogy File and Folder Organization System for Mac, Part 4

By Ben Sayer of GenealogyTools.com

Genealogy File and Folder Organization System for Mac, Part 5

By Ben Sayer of GenealogyTools.com

Genealogy File and Folder Organization System for Mac, Part 6

By Ben Sayer of GenealogyTools.com

Genealogy File and Folder Organization System for Mac, Part 7

By Ben Sayer of GenealogyTools.com

Genealogy File and Folder Organization System for Mac, Part 8

By Ben Sayer of GenealogyTools.com

Genealogy File and Folder Organization System for Mac, Part 9

By Ben Sayer of GenealogyTools.com

Have Early Massachusetts Ancestors? This might be your lucky day

From Diane Gould Hall, this article includes a great example of filing digital copies of pages from ebooks that contain information about our ancestors.

How To Organize Your Paper Files

JL Beeken: MRIN Filing System

The MRIN Filing System is a genealogy filing system based on Marriage Record Identification Numbers.

My Digital Filing System for Genealogy (Windows)

From Are My Roots Showing? by Jenny Lanctot.