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    1. Re: [FHU] Text files
    2. Adrian Bruce
    3. <<snipped>> I have a number of text files, copies of letters, descriptions of people and events, short family histories, wills, and so on, that I would like to include in my FHS files, but the question is where? <<snipped>> I'm not sure there is a single answer, though Shelagh's custom attribute "Documents" seems a good bet for a single answer. Personally, I would consider how I would want the text to appear on any reports - or whether you were just linking them for, as it were, preservation and / or indexing with no real desire to see them printed. If the latter, then attachment as multimedia files would suffice. If you want to see the text appear in reports, then copying and pasting the text into the note for an attribute or event appropriate for the topic in question would seem sensible. Like the wills but differently. For instance, if you had a letter about someone's military service, it could go into a military service event or attribute. If there doesn't seem an obvious event or attribute, then pasting the text into either a note for a single person or a shared note is perhaps the least worst option. And possibly the answer would be different again if you wanted a web-site output. Adrian B

    04/16/2014 09:42:48