Legacy already provides fields for birth, death, burial, marriage, etc. Have you considered attaching your photos as source detail under the Multimedia tab, i.e. as proof of the events? instead of making photos into their own events...
Making a photo of your father in the Navy could support an event of Naval Service. There's a place for photos in Events. It seems like you're trying to make Legacy do something that it doesn't really do. ----- JL JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://www.jgen.ws/jlog/tag/iptc On 6/1/2010 6:05 PM, Bain Family wrote: > Oh, I agree! The exact example you gave is what I am trying to figure out > now. Pictures of headstones with birth and death dates, etc... I have > decided to scan and source (as best I can) similar to a scan of a birth > certificate and then add the picture into the individual's picture gallery. > Double work, but that's all I can figure out to do right now. General > pictures (like the ship my father was on while in the Navy) is more of an > interesting picture that helps tell the story of my father than a document > that really proves anything. This is a picture I would normally just > include in Dad's individual picture gallery, but I wanted to properly cite > the source and unless it is an event, there is no place to attach a source > to it. That's where I started making a Photo Event for every picture and > attaching a source to the Photo Event, but it just didn't seem like that > would be the best answer. > > Lana > > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Dennis M. Kowallek"<kowal...@iglou.com> > Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 11:33 AM > To:<LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com> > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Introduction and a Picture/Source Question > >> You don't always get any information from a photograph. For example, I >> might attach a photograph of the ship my great-grandparents immigrated >> aboard to the Immigration event. That photograph may have come from a >> book which contained nothing but photos of ships. The photo itself >> doesn't provide any genealogical information. Yet, I would like to >> record where I got the photo for my own benefit and those who might use >> my data. Sounds like a source to me. >> >> Certainly I can record that information in the photo's Description. But >> doing that is akin to typing your sources in an event's Note field >> instead of using the mechanism that Legacy provides for sourcing. >> >> The OP has a good question. I have always wondered why Legacy didn't >> provide for sourcing of images. I just never bothered to ask the >> question here. >> >> -- >> >> Dennis Kowallek (LTools) >> http://zippersoftware.com/ltools >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools >> > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@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 after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
