# Stories and Heirlooms with Pictures **URL:** \ **Category:** RootsMagic\ **Tags:** question\ **Created:** [July 30, 2026, 3:49pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/stories-and-heirlooms-with-pictures/16024 "2026-07-30T15:49:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ab992/32.png) [@bade](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/bade)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2026, 3:49pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/stories-and-heirlooms-with-pictures/16024/1 "2026-07-30T15:49:29Z")
So, in order to make my family tree meaningful, I feel that it is essential to be able to generate a narrative report that includes Stories about people/events with pictures, Heirlooms that relatives once owned along with any stories and pictures. This is kind of like the capabilities of Personal Historian, but I don’t want it separate from the family tree narrative…so, I don’t see that as an option unless it was somehow integrated into RootsMagic. Here’s what I tried thus far (based on advice from AI)… Background: I have a story that my grandmother told me about growing up in her parents house and I have a picture of an associated heirloom (carved wooden plate depicting the house) and a modern day picture of the house. So, I created a custom “Heirloom” fact. ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/rootsmagic/original/2X/d/d4cfddfabd6662765e61c92546bfffd9a40d8d83.jpeg) I created the heirloom fact for my Grandmother’s hand carved plate and attached (media) 2 pictures front/back to that fact. For this particular instance I decided to customize the sentence because I wanted a few more details than the sentence template could provide. Next, I created a custom “Family Story” fact: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/rootsmagic/original/2X/c/c28e4fd63dde081b195f3b51cbdba2dc5b767c03.jpeg) For the description, I put “XXX told by Grandmother” and in the Note, I put the story. I also added a citation that I created: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/rootsmagic/original/2X/c/c28e4fd63dde081b195f3b51cbdba2dc5b767c03.jpeg) with my grandmother as the Interviewee, a date of “abt 1982” and me as the Interviewer. This is the approach that AI recommended although it does seem cumbersome to have 2 different facts rather than a single fact. In case it isn’t obvious, for some people I expect to have both multiple stories and possibly sometime multiple heirlooms. The bigger problem for me is how to get a narrative report for everyone in my RootsMagic database and include ALL of the stories/heirlooms for people that have them. I understand that RootsMagic doesn’t have the nice formatting capabilities or Personal Historian, but I would think that I could get all of the stories, heirlooms, and associated pictures to be in a narrative report (and be able to get the stories/heirlooms that are related to print out adjacent to one another). And I would like to be able to control this independently of whether I am printing out the images of citations such as census records, etc. Thanks for your help… I am completely new to RootsMagic and trying to figure out how to do this before I invest too much time… A second thing that I would like to create is a “my life in tee-shirts” with a picture of each of the 100+ tee shirts that I own and the associated story… Ideas on how to do this are appreciated as well. ---
**Author:** ![rzamor1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/rzamor1/32/8_2.png) [@rzamor1](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/rzamor1)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2026, 6:55pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/stories-and-heirlooms-with-pictures/16024/2 "2026-07-30T18:55:48Z")
Only the primary photo is used in a narrative report. If you create a book a scrapbook could be included. They would be outside of the narrative as separate chapters. To have photos inserted in the narrative it would have to be edited it in Word.