I know that my family history files contain items with a number of different extensions. Some of the ones in my collection are:
.avi Audio Vidio Interleave
.csv Comma Separated Values
.doc Microsoft Word Document
.ged Gedcom Genealogy Data
.html Hypertext Markup Language
.mp3 MP3 Audio
.mp4 MP4 Video
.pdf Portable Document File
.png Portable Network Graphic
.ppt Powerpoint Presentation
.rtf Rich Text Format
.tif Tagged Image File
.xls Excel Spreadsheet
.zip Zipped File
The files bearing these extensions document my genealogy Journey.
My favourite file extension that is on over 90,000 of my files is:
.jpg JPEG Image
What is the extension of your favourite file format?
5 comments:
Another vote for JPEG
have to agree, JPEG wins hands down.
An awareness of these file types can be very useful. For instance, in a Google search, the filetype operator is used to restrict the results to a specified type of file. To search for pdf documents related to barbeque enter 'filetype:pdf barbeque' (without the quotes) into the search field. Only results with pdf documents will be returned.
I'll second (or is that 3rd that) for JPEG.
As for knowing file extensions, I believe it is important for everyone to know. And I've had to learn all of them for the various genealogy programs use, so as to be able advise and talk customers through queries.
90,000!!!!!!!! WOW. I thought that 12,000 was a lot but not anymore! You must have huge storage capacity.
Lately, I have taken to printing webpages/emails etc to PDF and saving on my computer, rather than having bits of paper everywhere.
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