attach documents

Discussion in Feature Requests Forum started by Felicia Rogers, Dec 15, 2013
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Felicia Rogers
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I want to be able to attach census pages, newspaper articles, obits.
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Robert Arnold Neugebauer
I put in documents all of the time. I put them in as pictures. You will then have a picture of the person. Hit "other pictures" and you will get the obituary, marriage record, or whatever else you entered. I think you will need to get your documents into jpg format first. I take pictures of them with my digital camera.
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Les
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I put in documents all of the time. I put them in as pictures. You will then have a picture of the person. Hit "other pictures" and you will get the obituary, marriage record, or whatever else more ...
you entered. I think you will need to get your documents into jpg format first. I take pictures of them with my digital camera
Hi Robert, yes you are correct. If you have a Printer/Scanner use this as it is easier, than taking a snapshot.

Save them in a Folder as .jpg which is the easer to do, ten upload them as pgotographs to TP.

all the best

Les

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Robert Andrews
Have you thought about uploading your stories/documents to the cloud? I use Google Drive where you get 15GB free. Save as Word or PDF files or jpegs and change the status of the document from 'Private' to, 'Anyone with the link can view'.

With a bit of HTML as below, you can put the links either under 'Stories' or against the name of the individual on your tree. Put the HTML in the notes of the person and all that appears next to the individual is the name of the document/story, which is a link to the document on Google Drive.

This is the HTML that links to the 1901 census of my grandfather's family on google drive:

<a href="https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3ZFoWmoUcdpV2RzM0lwNmdtb2M">

1891 Census - Farlington Lodge, Farlington, York</a>

Simply replace the bit between the quotes with the address of your document (copy & paste to avoid errors)and alter the description of the document, taking care that you do not delete </a> at the end of the line.

Against an individual, you get a neat list of stories/certificates/census's linked to that person.

I have linked to my tree, many documents and old ledgers, as well as birth certificates & census returns and even a recording of my grandfather telling a story in 1957 (That is on youtube).

I must give due acknowledgement to Les for all this, as it was he who got me started a few years ago.

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Robert Arnold Neugebauer
Have you thought about uploading your stories/documents to the cloud? I use Google Drive where you get 15GB free. Save as Word or PDF files or jpegs and change the status of the document from 'Pr more ...
ivate' to, 'Anyone with the link can view'. With a bit of HTML as below, you can put the links either under 'Stories' or against the name of the individual on your tree. Put the HTML in the notes of the person and all that appears next to the individual is the name of the document/story, which is a link to the document on Google Drive. This is the HTML that links to the 1901 census of my grandfather's family on google drive: <a href="https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3ZFoWmoUcdpV2RzM0lwNmdtb2M"> 1891 Census - Farlington Lodge, Farlington, York</a> Simply replace the bit between the quotes with the address of your document (copy & paste to avoid errors)and alter the description of the document, taking care that you do not delete </a> at the end of the line. Against an individual, you get a neat list of stories/certificates/census's linked to that person. I have linked to my tree, many documents and old ledgers, as well as birth certificates & census returns and even a recording of my grandfather telling a story in 1957 (That is on youtube). I must give due acknowledgement to Les for all this, as it was he who got me started a few years ago
That is a good idea but I do not plan on implementing it, at least not for awhile. I've always got too many irons in the fire. A few days ago I moved all of my offline genealogy to the "cloud". I found a site called www.copy.com. They offer 20 GB of free storage which nicely covers what I need. That site is probably pretty much like the Google Drive one that you use. Thanks for the great idea. Maybe others who see your suggestion will follow up on it.

Bob Neugebauer

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Robert Andrews
That is a good idea but I do not plan on implementing it, at least not for awhile. I've always got too many irons in the fire. A few days ago I moved all of my offline genealogy to the "cloud". more ...
I found a site called www.copy.com. They offer 20 GB of free storage which nicely covers what I need. That site is probably pretty much like the Google Drive one that you use. Thanks for the great idea. Maybe others who see your suggestion will follow up on it. Bob Neugebaue
20gb is very good, I will have a look at it. I see no reason why you would not be able to replicate what I have done with any cloud resource. Good luck.
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Les
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Have you thought about uploading your stories/documents to the cloud? I use Google Drive where you get 15GB free. Save as Word or PDF files or jpegs and change the status of the document from 'Pr more ...
ivate' to, 'Anyone with the link can view'. With a bit of HTML as below, you can put the links either under 'Stories' or against the name of the individual on your tree. Put the HTML in the notes of the person and all that appears next to the individual is the name of the document/story, which is a link to the document on Google Drive. This is the HTML that links to the 1901 census of my grandfather's family on google drive: <a href="https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3ZFoWmoUcdpV2RzM0lwNmdtb2M"> 1891 Census - Farlington Lodge, Farlington, York</a> Simply replace the bit between the quotes with the address of your document (copy & paste to avoid errors)and alter the description of the document, taking care that you do not delete </a> at the end of the line. Against an individual, you get a neat list of stories/certificates/census's linked to that person. I have linked to my tree, many documents and old ledgers, as well as birth certificates & census returns and even a recording of my grandfather telling a story in 1957 (That is on youtube). I must give due acknowledgement to Les for all this, as it was he who got me started a few years ago