I also do something similiar.
I have create an event called Gravesite and record
the information in
the following way
Event name: Gravesite
Event Place : Eaglehawk Cemetery, Eaglehawk, ,
Victoria, Australia
Notes
*"Location *Section: MON G, Grave Number: 34
*Transcription of Headstone*
This Plaque had been laid to commemorate / the
arrival from Cornwall 140
years ago / on the SS Great Britain 24 Dec. 1861 of
/ Martha (Carbis) /
Died 1882 / John Bassett Died 1868 / Both are Laid
to rest here. / They
laid the foundation for our future. / Remembered by
the descendants 20
Jan. 2002 / At a Family gathering in Eaglehawk.
*Interred at this site*
John Bassett
Martha Bassett"
If there is no headstone I just put No Headstone
instead of
Transcription of Headstone. This has the effect of
standardizing the
information in the event and the look. This
standardization looks good
in reports and is also clear to non-geneologists.
In somecases I also
attach a photo of the grave site if I have it. It
also helps if I go
the cemetery and I can print off an Event Report for
a paricular
location do some research and/or take photos.
Sandra
Melbourne
Cary wrote:
Another option is to create a Burial info event for
each person, putting a
picture of that headstone and putting
transcriptions in the notes. That
way pictures will appear for that person in written
reports (they won't if
added to Burial in Family view). I put a photo of
the cemetery entrance
in the Source description, but each stone only with
the person(s) named.
Cary
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Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 10:09 AM
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Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How do you record someone
acting as a witness?
Changes in County boundaries?
Hi Dave, in Legacy I currently only use the grave
marker information as a
source for facts/events (i.e. St. Thomas Aquinas
Cemetery, Ogdensburg,
Sussex County, New Jersey, grave marker for William
C. Nestor,
photographed
by Marghie Nestor Howard, 16 Jun 2004.). This
includes the master source
portion (the cemetery info.) and the citation
detail (the stone itself).
I
include the inscription in the detail text, but do
not attach the photo in
Legacy.
The reason for not attaching the photo is that the
citation detail is
copied
and pasted as a source for several events/facts and
I thought it would be
very redundant to paste the photo mutiple times.
Instead, I import all my
photos (pictures, documents, and grave marker
phots) directly to TNG.
Each
cemetery has the all the photos where I have them
available. I also put
the
transcriptions there and attach to the appropriate
individual(s) in TNG.
For transcriptions where I do not have a photo or
where I found the photo
at
FindAGrave or elsewhere on the net, I merely list
the transcription and
then
create a link to where the photo and/or
transcription originated. It
probably makes better sense if you check out a few
of my cemeteries
online.
For all photos I own, I scan them at an archival
size and place them in
the
appropriate folder on my hard drive. Then, I
create a web-sized copy of
them and place them in a single folder (sorted
alphabetically by last
name)
to be uploaded to TNG. Therefore, I never have to
worry about long file
names caused by them being buried in
subdirectories.
I hope this gives you some ideas. There are lots
of ways to do this, but
this has worked well for me (aside for the tedium
of having to make two
copies of every photo!).
I'm not sure if this answers your original
question, but I see you have
posted to the TNG list where the gurus there can
probably better answer
your
technical question.
Hope this helps!
Gail Rich Nestor
Smyrna, Georgia
www.roots2buds.net
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From: "Dave Keeney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 12:46 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] How do you record someone
acting as a witness?
Changes in County boundaries?
So do you record 'headstones' in Legacy? If so,
how?
I'm going to (I think) use Legacy events, attach
the picture to the
source
and then manually link them in TNG to the correct
individual. I think
that
will get me there with the least amount of
(re)work.
But to do this I need to move my TNG Headstones
directory to my Photos
directory. No problem but since my directory
structure is broken down by
State - County - City - Cemetery name I exceed the
64 character limit.
If
I
can't get that changed I'll regroup.
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