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
