The Picture Center lets you attach pictures to an Individual,
Marriage, and to Events (including Birth, Christening, Death, Burrial)
BUT I don't think it can be used to attach pictures to Sources.
Am I wrong?

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:07 PM, William H. Boswell
<whbosw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Some of you may recall I recently converted over to Legacy from FTM2009.
> Within FTM I had a large number of images such as census, obits, PDFs, text
> documents and others that are attached to source-citations for everyone in
> my file.  This looks like it's going to be more work than it's worth, but am
> wondering if there is an easier way to do this.
>
> I just finished linking all people and grave photos without any problems.
> Before I dumped FTM I printed out a number of reports to show what image
> file goes with which person.   Is it better to do it in the Picture Center?
> When I was setting up the people and grave photos, I assigned a File ID to
> each image which is the file name minus the extension.
>
> I started to do this for the 1850 census then to test it attached the image
> to the birth event for this person.  I then closed out of the Picture
> Center, went to the person's source-citation (detail) to see if the image
> was attached under Sources, selected Birth then selected the Pictures tab.
> For Source Detail Picture there was nothing there.  I hope this is making
> sense because I'm finding it very confusing and too many steps for something
> that should be fairly simple.
>
> How can I add these images to sources without creating duplicates?  I
> noticed there is no place to apply the new File ID to a source.  What's the
> point of assigning a File ID if you can't use it elsewhere?  I'm trying to
> limit duplicates and also not have to keep re-entering the same information
> for each image.
>
> There has to be an easier way or should I just forget about doing this.
> Most, if not all, of the images were transcribed a long time ago but it
> would be nice to attach the images as well.  I know it'll take a long time
> especially since I have to keep switching back and forth between Legacy and
> my "cheat sheet" PDF file generated from FTM.  This PDF is over 3,000 pages
> long so I really don't want to print it.  There are several thousand source
> images as well.
>
> I do like this program better than FTM, but this seems to be a larger
> challenge than I expected.
>
> Thanks,
> Bill Boswell
>
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