Debbie, To clarify no photographs live within Legacy, Legacy only saves the path to your photos, except for the multimedia backup. This is different to a number of other genealogy programs.
Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________ *New* Tutorial: Add Location Pins to Google Earth http://www.fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw And the Fergusons of N.W. England ____________________________________________________ Debbie Freeman wrote: > Hello Jenny, > > As I said I plan on. I have not started to yet. > > From what I can tell so far the different computer programs (not > Legacy) like to import any multimedia (without asking first). So I do > not plan on having the actual scan of the photo living in Legacy , I > plan on creating a name of the photo and then using that in the > artifact template for the photo attached in Legacy. > > As an example I have a four generation family photo. The photo is the > only evidence that I have that the great grandchild met his great > grandfather. The great grandfather lived in Nebraska, and the rest of > the family lived in Wyoming. I plan on making a family reunion event, > then hopefully using the artifact template as the source template. > Hopefully that will work. > > Debbie Freeman > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Jenny M Benson" > Sent: Monday, May 31, 2010 1:50 PM > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Introduction and a Picture/Source Question > > >> Legacy does have an Artifacts template, but to what do you plan to >> attach it? You cannot Source a photograph unless you make it the >> subject of an Event, but even then you would be citing that Artifact >> (the photograph) as the Source for the photograph! >> >> If, for example, the photo was a picture of a Dinner Party and you >> make the Dinner Party the subject of the Event, with the photo >> attached, you can then cite that Artifact (the photograph) as the >> Source. -- >> Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
