Family Historian User Group

Carrying on with the theme of my tidying up my records...

When adding census information I normally create a source record based on the name of the 'key' person eg.

Census 1871 - Margaret Atkins (b1792)

with the publication info containing the source reference eg
Source Citation: Class: RG10; Piece: 2004; Folio: 41; Page: 28.

The census image file is saved with the same name ie.

Census 1871 - Margaret Atkins (b1792).jpg

and linked to the source record. Since my source images are also hyperlinked into Excel 'timeline' spreadsheets I find it useful to give them a meaningful file name, rather than just something based source code reference.

So I end up with each census source record having one (or maybe two if it runs over two pages) image(s) attached to it. Then each source record may then be cited on a number of individuals records.

However, a single page on a census may contain two or more people/families of interest, eg. couple + offspring then one offspring plus their spouse + offspring, or even two as yet unrelated families (the children may later marry).

What do you generally do in these circumstance:

have multiple sources with different titles each linked to the same source image;

have multiple sources each linked to differently named copies of the same image;

something else?

I know there's no hard and fast rules, and there will be pros and cons to each, just wondering what sort of approaches people take.

David


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I don't put peoples names on the media, where a family or families run over two pages I simply add both images to a single source.

What do you generally do in these circumstance:

have multiple sources with different titles each linked to the same source image;

have multiple sources each linked to differently named copies of the same image;

Hi David - Like you I identify census sources and images using the main individual's name & dates. In terms of your two options above I use the first. I have an aversion to cluttering things up with unecessary (in my view [smile]) copies, and as far as FH is concerned you can always access the appropriate image in the usual way, never having to know it's multimedia name or file name.

The situation only crops up rarely for me and I'm prepared to put up with the minor ambiguity between multimedia names & Census source names when it does.

Cheers