I finally found the place where the File ID is located, but I didn't find my test ID number in there. I looked through the PDF manual, which is greatly lacking in any clues, and it said that the Picture Center would be better for attaching a lot of images. I entered the ID number there and it seems to be working. The entire process will take too long. I wish someone would improve GEDCOM so it brings in your image locations. Relinking is a nightmare.
Since I have so many to do I really don't know if it's worth the trouble especially for census records. As I said, I have most of them transcribed and they are partially renamed so they are easy to find. Ancestry.com names files with a long number so renaming them is a must. Bill -----Original Message----- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Bruce Jones Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 1:23 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Attaching Source Citation Images to Events 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 > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
