A few years ago, I digitized my photographic negatives. Some of the negatives were still in the envelopes they were returned in after processing with just one roll of film per envelope. In other cases, negatives from several rolls of film had been put in the same envelope to save space. In those situations it wasn’t always possible to tell which pictures were on the same original roll of film.
What I wished I had done when I digitized my negatives was to create a number of folders in which to separate the images. Each negative strip could have its own folder so that I know which pictures were taken at approximately the same time. If I have an envelope with just a few negative strips in it I can put those images in the same digital folder. This way I can preserve (to a point) some of the organization of the negatives.
That structure may help me to identify the photographs later.
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