TMG-L Archives
Archiver > TMG > 2002-01 > 1011278571
From:
Subject: RE: [TMG] Back again with photo database questions)
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 09:42:51 -0500
Hi, Dale C. Rutschow, you asked a few weeks ago (I'm still on last year's mail):
<<The problem with any software I have found is that they may create a nice
album but how do you find all the pictures that have "Uncle Henry" in
them??? See what I mean, it's one thing if it's just one or two people, you
can put that in the title, but what about a family reunion and you have a 50
people in the photo and several hundred photos??? How do you find his
pictures?>>
How about using TMG to link all the people in a photo to an Exhibit tag?
Use a role like "InPicture" that you can link everyone in the photo to. The scanned photo could be either an internal or external exhibit. You photo album TMG database could be separate from your genealogy database, and with TMG 5.0 being able to show multiple databases, you could work with both together.
I have not played around much with creating TMG roles, since I am still working mostly with UFT. With UFT events, it would be quite easy to find all the photos Uncle Henry is in and then find who else is in each photo. The role sentence could be something like: "Henry was shown in a family photograph taken 10 January 1900 at his home in Jackson ...", where "a family", the date, location detail, and place are filled in from various event fields. I would then add additional text describing the photograph, e.g. the circumstances at the time of the photo, listing explicitly who else is in the photo, etc. I would add background detail in a footnote or research note (UFT terms) and I could build a formal source if I thought that was appropriate.
This solution would not produce a photo album style report (I don't think), but it would be non-trivial to custom build an Access solution to do that as well.
If someone with more TMG skills is able to expand on this idea, I'm sure others on the list would love to know how to do this.
Pierce
This thread: