Where and how do people add general information and pictures about places your ancestors lived? Do you attach it to a Census reference or set up a seperate entry of some description?
I am struggling to see how best this is done on FH
Thanks for any tips
Jackie
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Jackie,
Unfortunately I don't think there is one 'best' way to do this, given the limitations of the GEDCOM 5.5 standard. There are two relevant FH Wish-List items (which I think should be merged) but their development would, I think, be quite tricky. You may care to add your votes for them:
Ability to save information against places (249) at http://www.fhug.org.uk/wishlist/wldispl ... lwlref=249
Attaching multimedia to a Place (8) at http://www.fhug.org.uk/wishlist/wldisplay.php?wlwlref=8
Meanwhile, I personally would use a Source record for this purpose, to which you can add or link any number of Notes and Multimedia. The 'Source' record for a place can then be linked to any number of relevant Events or Attributes. As yet there is no way to link anything to a Place.
Unfortunately I don't think there is one 'best' way to do this, given the limitations of the GEDCOM 5.5 standard. There are two relevant FH Wish-List items (which I think should be merged) but their development would, I think, be quite tricky. You may care to add your votes for them:
Ability to save information against places (249) at http://www.fhug.org.uk/wishlist/wldispl ... lwlref=249
Attaching multimedia to a Place (8) at http://www.fhug.org.uk/wishlist/wldisplay.php?wlwlref=8
Meanwhile, I personally would use a Source record for this purpose, to which you can add or link any number of Notes and Multimedia. The 'Source' record for a place can then be linked to any number of relevant Events or Attributes. As yet there is no way to link anything to a Place.