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. 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. -- Ian The Hotmail address is my spam-bin. Real mail address is iang at austonley org uk