If I enter media into my citation as shown below, what is the purpose of also adding it to the fact on the person window? Also shown below for clarification.
There is no required “purpose”. You can add it both places or not, depending on what you want to do. I do it for ease of access on some things, such as an obit. It is easier to go to my obit fact and pull up the media than it is to go to source and pull it up…if I just need a quick reference.
I see thank you. I wasn’t sure of the purpose.
The way I think of it is that for the most part, the fact is the more convenient place to link media and the citation is the more logical place. I link media both places, and I am not 100% sure why.
The fact is the more convenient place because you can see from the Edit Person screen that there is media there, and you can get to the media with many fewer clicks than you can if the media is linked to the citation. But the citation seems to me to be the more logical place because to me the media file actually is the true source to which the citation is referring. The citation tells me where I found the media file, and the media file is the source.
Neither place to link the media files is of much value in RM when it comes to printing reports. I started using RM decades ago when it was still Family Origins. One of the first things I did in Family Origins was to attach a photo of a grave marker to a Burial fact. I was surprised and chagrined to discover that the photo did not print out in a descendant narrative report. The only way to print media files in Family Origins was to produce Scrapbook reports. That limitation remains today in RM10.
That being said, I’m beginning to publish limited portions of my RM data online with a product called GedSite. The GedSite product is not produced by RM and it will work with GEDCOM produced by RM and any of RM’s competitors. But GedSite does support media linked to both facts and to citations. It’s a very nice effect and the effect encourages me to link media to both places in RM.
Here’s a link to some RM data as presented by GedSite. I would really emphasize that this is RM data. GedSite is not a genealogy database nor is it really even a genealogy program. It’s just a web site maker. About 99% of the time I spend “working on GedSite” is actually spent working in RM.
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Very nice! (your GedSite). MacFamilyTree has the same option for media, only presented much more nicely :).
this made me chuckle (though not really funny)
(in Tennessee)
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Yes, I live in the land of the eager beaver dam builders of the Tennessee Valley Authority. I have many dozens if not hundreds of burials in my data base where entire cemeteries were moved when a dam was built. I try to document both the original burial and the re-interment whenever possible.
In the case you mentioned, I found the GPS coordinates of the original cemetery that is now under water on an old USGS Quadrangle map, with “Quadrangle” being the name the USGS uses for their topographic maps. The old maps are online for free at the USGS Web site.
I try to record very exact GPS coordinates for each burial by visiting the grave and capturing the GPS coordinates with a handheld GPS device that I also use for back country hiking. A cell phone can also be used to get the GPS coordinates, but a cell phone is not as accurate as is my GPS device used for hiking. My data in RM is set up so that you can click on the GPS coordinates on a GedSite page and you will be taken to a live Google map with a pin on the exact location of the grave within the cemetery. On printed reports from RM, the coordinates are printed but obviously are not clickable. I have never found a way to get the geocoding that is supported by RM to be of any assistance in recording and printing the GPS coordinates for individual grave sites, so I do it manually using the Description field and Note field of facts in RM.
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