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Happy birthday gramps9/10/2023 ![]() You can attach more than photos and scans. This should return you to the Source Editor for the 'Interview with John Doe' source. You can use the mouse in the preview picture to select the part of the picture of interest (click and drag from corner 1 to corner 2). if you have added a group photo, it makes sense to indicate which person in the photo is John Doe. The top of this dialog allows to select a region of the picture, e.g. You will now see the Media Reference Editor dialog. with the correct image selected, Press OK button. Make sure you select the 'Convert to a relative path' checkbox. Entering a title will not change the file name. At the bottom of this dialog is a box Title: where you can a nice descriptive title. This opens a File Selector dialog where you can select that image of yourself. you want to add Media objects in the Gallery tab of this source.Ĭlick on the Gallery tab, and then on the little Add icon in the right of the toolbar just below the tabs. You should see: Notes, Gallery, Attributes, Repositories, References. Look at the tab headers for the record list of the Source Editor. Double click (or select and then press ↵ Enter) to open the source 'Interview with John Doe'. Now, let us continue with adding one of the documents in this folder as a reference document for a source. You don't have to spend hours picking and choosing through all your vacation pictures to find just the genealogy scans. The primary benefit of collecting all your media objects in a folder is that it is easier to make certain all your reference documents are easily archived and are portable. Surely you have a picture of yourself! Decide on a good place in this folder to collect portraits and place a copy of your self-portrait file in there. Keep your media documents well structured in this directory. Click on the Close button to save your changes. ![]() Set the value of Base path for relative media paths to this directory. ![]() (You might choose to create a new one.) Then select Edit->Preferences on the menu bar and choose the General tab. So, begin by deciding which directory (folder) you will use as a central collection point to store your pictures, videos, sounds, and documents. You have to manage these files with your own organizational system or tools outside of Gramps. It does not store your media files (pictures, videos, sounds, and documents etc.) Rather, it logs a link (or shortcut) to where the media file is stored on your hard disk or the internet. In the Source view's list mode, you will see your new source listed and that the new entry has an ID number that is unique to your source.Įditing sources is introduced in greater detail in the Editing information about sources section of the manual.īefore you begin adding scans and documents to Gramps, you should know that Gramps is not a Document Management System. ![]() It is assumed here, that you have just installed Gramps and are starting your first family tree. So, let's now start with adding information into Gramps. Apart from these, Gramps allows you to store Notes, Places, Media (pictures, movies, documents), and Repositories. With this, we have our main terms for genealogy: Sources, Events, Persons and Families. The source of the events allows you to deduce a person existed, as part of a family. From this primary source you obtain events such as birth day, baptism day, graduation. So, if you begin with yourself, you are interviewing yourself, which is a primary source on the subject. Having a source for your information will also create trust with other researchers. What makes this so important is at a later time you will need or want to revisit this information. ![]() One of the most important things in genealogy is that you record how and where you found/deduced the information. If you are just starting your genealogy, it's best to begin with yourself, and add other people as they connect with you. ![]()
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