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Subject: [TMG-L:] Re: TMG-L: Using TMG to Catalog pictures?
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 21:22:57 EDT


In a message dated 5/3/2000 11:38:37 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
writes:
snip...
<< Pat Ricketts has mentioned some of the problems of storing pictures
electronically. I have too many to store internally, and don't want to use
up as much of my hard drive as it would take to store them externally. Also
I don't believe exhibits show up on the person view. I don't yet have a CD
writer, so that option isn't feasible now. I am puzzled about Pat's and
Lee's reference to using < > around the memo field to bring the pics into a
word processor? Still another item to learn about TMG. >> snip...

Fran,

I use endnotes for my sources and that let's me use footnotes for other
things. Whenever I have something in a memo I wish to footnote I enclose it
in < >. When I'm editing the genealogy report in my word processor I do a
search and move items within the < > into a footnote. This could be done with
images. You would search for the < and then import the picture as needed.
Using your method for photos and linking the photo person with witnesses who
are in the photo and having the file location in < > would let you do this
search and import easily w/o having the file on the hard drive. My next
computer (this summer, hopefully) will have a CD RW drive and I hope to start
scanning photos, etc then.

Thanks again for you idea.

Patt Ricketts
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