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Post by DBAMorse » 08 Nov 2006 22:52

I also keep pictures of places as well as photos of people and scans of certificates.  My question is, how and where do others link such pictures of places.  For example I have churches, houses and even old maps of villages etc.

Any help appreciated.

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Post by aragorn » 09 Nov 2006 14:36

I also want to do this .I tried using notes for a place but could not link to any pictures.This would be very useful as a place can be just as important as a person.Just a thought maybe you could make a record of a place instead of a person and keep some of the info like that?[grin]

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Post by nsw » 09 Nov 2006 17:40

I think currently it would be suggested that you use a source for a place and then you can link this source to any events as required. A source can have any number of images.

However, in the Wishlist on this site 'Attach multimedia to a place' is currently at number 4 in the voting and so I wouldn't be surprised (but have no inside knowledge!) if this gets implemented sometime in the next year or two. I'd suggest voting for this if you haven't already. Personally I am going to wait for this to be implemented rather than start linking in places to sources as it might be a bit of a pain to have to change to the new system from a different one.

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Post by DBAMorse » 09 Nov 2006 23:17

Thanks for the replies.  Hadn't picked up on it being in the wish list but will certainly add a vote.

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Post by Anonymous » 13 Nov 2006 10:25

I link them to whatever event or attribuute seems to make sense e.g. a church used for a wedding I'd link to the Marriage Event, a gravestone picture to the Buried event.

I also scan source documents but treat these differently and link them to the Source record rather than the Indivdual/Family.

Hope this helps.

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