On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 10:27:13 -0700 (PDT), Connie Sheets <[email protected]> wrote:
>You get information from a photograph. The photograph is your source, and you >cite the photograph. You attach the citation that describes the photograph to >a piece of information you derive from the photograph, like a Family Reunion >in 1939, not to the photograph itself. 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/[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
