Sheri,
I do as you do and create Events for individuals with photos and
files attached to either the event or source citation. But I use
Location rather than Event Address for any more general information. The
advantage of Location over Event Address is that Location allows you to
use the Mapping facility.
For example I may have just general references to individuals in a city
such as Norwich , for which I would have a location Norwich , Norfolk.
But if I had an address specific reference such as a marriage at a
church in the city I might enter the place information as Norwich [ St.
Clement ] , Norfolk. This would give me two locations in the Master
Location list. Norwich , Norfolk and Norwich [ St. Clement ] , Norfolk.
Using the single square bracket places the inferior location after the
superior location in the sort order of the Location list. I can use the
Legacy Picture Gallery clipboard to copy any file references from the
Event Picture Gallery to the Location Picture Gallery and thereby have a
consolidation of information related to that location. In addition I can
use Mapping from the individual to go to a specific address within a
city or area. Legacy acknowledges that it is not a multimedia
manipulation tool which is why there are add-ons such as Passage Express
and Heritage Collector and your photos are not part of the Legacy
database but Legacy simply maintains pointers to the file paths , so I
don't worry about using external applications to manage those files as
long as Legacy can find them and invoke them for me. I use Internet
Explorer as my browser and if I find a village or town which has a
website that offers a potted history of that location or a building such
as a church I save the webpage as a single file and then attach that to
the Location picture gallery , then I can just double click on the file
icon , or click Play , and my web browser takes me to the website by
invoking the .mht file.
So there are ways of keeping your information together using just the
Legacy database features if you are not looking to create your own
website or publish the information in book or report form.
Rick
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