Media attaching

RootsMagic
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When attaching media, i have been attaching to the citation, but i have noticed when attached that way it does not show up in a scrapbook. Do i have to add the same picture beside the citation also?

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Your choice. Some people attach it to only the citation. Some people only attach to Fact/Event. Some people attach it to both. Attaching it to the Fact/Event can make it appear in the person’s Scrapbook if so coded.

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Actually, when you attach it that way, it does show up in a scrapbook, or at least it can. But perhaps it doesn’t show up in a scrapbook in the way that might be expected.

RM supports scrapbooks for four kinds of items

  1. A person (includes the person’s facts such as birth and death)
  2. A family (includes the family’s facts such as marriage and divorce)
  3. A source (includes the source’s citations)
  4. A place (includes the places place details such as cemetery names)

So what you are talking about is attaching media to a citation for a person or a person’s facts such as birth or death. If you look at my list, the only place you see “citation” is with sources. You don’t see “citation” under a person or under a family. You do think of citations as belong to a person or their facts or to a family or their facts. That’s what you see on the Edit Person screen. But that’s not the way media scrapbooks work.

If you want to attach a media file to a citation and print it as a part of a scrapbook, be sure to mark the media file as “include in scrapbook” and then go to source that owns the citation and print the scrapbook for that source. That truly is the way it works.

I have not found the way RM manages scrapbooks to meet my needs, even if I attach the media to a person. Instead, I will create a dummy person, such as GivenName = “2019 Smith Family Reunion” and Surname = “Scrapbook”. I will attach the media I want to print as a single report to that dummy person and then run my scrapbook report.

Of course, you can do the same thing with real people instead of dummy people. But I find that the media I wish to attach to real people as evidence - things like marriage certificates and census records - is not a good fit for how I might want to print a scrapbook as a photo album. I suppose that’s what the option to include photos in the scrapbook or not is for. But it seems to me that if you want to create extensive printed photo albums from your media, that photo album software might be a better fit for the job than genealogy software.

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