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" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 11:33 AM To: <[email protected]> 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/[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
