I do both. I have all my census images together on my hard drive AND I link
them to the source for my census events (oops, resident events) :)

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Paula Ryburn <[email protected]>wrote:

> Ron, I will take your experience to heart, because you have many, many
> more images than I do.  I am just a beginner.
>
> Sometimes I just want to look at the images for a county... not
> necessarily for an individual.  I can go to the source master list and find
> the images there, rather than having to go to an individual's citations to
> find where one of the county's images are 2 clicks away.  But as I said in
> my post, I could also just look at them on my hard drive, because after
> completing my big re-naming project last year, the images are together
> there, too.
>
> --Paula
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Ron Ferguson <[email protected]>
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Sent:* Thu, April 19, 2012 4:12:16 PM
>
> *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Do you attach a census image for every single
> source?
>
> Paula,
>
> I do not really see where you are coming from here. I am a lumper and I
> have
> census Master Sources for each census year. Currently each year covers the
> whole of England, Wales and Scotland, Ireland I treat separately. I have
> over 6,000 records in my DB, so even at an average of 4 individuals/census
> this would give me 1,500 census images.
>
> Most of my records come from 4 counties, so even with and even split I
> would
> have on average 475 census images/ county. This is far too many for me to
> even consider searching in order to find a specific one. I think that I
> must
> be misunderstanding you somewhere along the line, but cannot see where.
>
> I will keep adding them to each individual Source Details where I can find
> them in 2 clicks.
>
> Ron Ferguson
> http://www.fergys.co.uk/
>
> From: Paula Ryburn
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 8:23 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Do you attach a census image for every single
> source?
>
>
> Yes, if you attach / link the images to the detail citations, then the
> images are out there with the individuals, not in the source master list.
> Just a consideration.  I mean, I also have a naming convention for the
> images themselves that keeps counties together on the hard drive, so I
> could
> just as easily look at them there, I suppose.
>
> --Paula
>
>
>
>
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