Ian Goddard wrote: > singhals wrote: >> Tom Wetmore wrote: >> >>> Note one very interesting thing about the five answers so far. No one >>> says they use their genealogical application to store their evidence. >>> Is this a failing of genelaogical software in general, or is handling the >>> evidence and handling the persons such two fundamentally different >>> things that we need two completely different programs for handling them? >> >> I won't speak for Steve or Ian, but in MY case I tried putting it all >> into the genealogical database. It worked fine for me while I was doing >> it EXCEPT for what I see as a personality failure. If I were looking for >> the /exact/ date of a death in the Mobil family, I'd invariably notice >> that Ol' Skylar was in there 12 times ... and I'd end up opening all 12 >> items to find the one with ancestors and descendants. I considered that >> a waste of my time and energy, so I went back to paper, which I handle >> only when I need to. >> > > I'm not sure exactly what you're describing here but the Gramps approach > is that you can add a media file into the Gallery. Just about any > category of item except repository can be linked to a Gallery item. The > database form has a Gallery tab on it. Click on that and the relevant > Gallery items will be shown as thumbnails. > Yeah, even PAF allows that. And, I'm told, you can put the image link into the Source template which does have a repository field. I'm not enchanted with that field, unless the repository is Library of Congress or the Family History Library; no other US library is nearly as disaster-proof -- and even LoC burned once. Having that available though doesn't cure my problem of not instantly recognizing which of 12 men of the same name and birthdate is the one I want and which 11 are data-holders only. > So, for example, I can download a household image as a PDF for the Irish > 1911 census (*free* - shame on the GB census!), enter it into the > Gallery and link to the family record, to each member of the household > and to the Place record. If I go into any of the records I can see the > thumbnail on the Gallery and click it to launch Acrobat& bring up the > full-size image. Supposedly it will also handle audio& video but I > haven't tried that. Yes, PAF too is said to handle audio and video, but since a majority of my ancestors died before that technology was invented it's even less useful. (g) Cheryl