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From: Mike Fox <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Back again with photo database questions)
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 15:53:41 -0600
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I have a naming scheme that is very rigid and artificial, but it has the
great advantage of storing hundreds of pictures by person, by date taken, or
by subject. When I open all my pictures at once in my 'thumbnail' browser',
all the pictures display by a specific person and by that persons age.
Whether the separating character is a comma or a blank space or no space has
important consequences in how the pictures sort, so the scheme must be
followed rigidly. The scheme grew like Topsy over a few years, so there are
some internal inconsistencies, but I live with them or I would have to go
back and rename 100s of images. You can improve on scheme from the get-go.
For one person: "CASEY(GRADY),Mary 1900c,1961 At home in Richmond.tif"
Breakdown: Birth Surname (Married Surname). Given name. Birth Year. Picture
year. Description.
More than one person: "CASEYs 1955c Mary 1899 Bill 1942 Picnic at Zilker
Park.tif" Breakdown: Family Surname of principal family. Year picture taken.
Person's given name and birth date. Next person's given name and birth date.
Description.
For things or places: "CASEY's Mary 1900 1961 Home at 342 Treeline Park,
NY, NY.tif" Breakdown: Family surname associated with thing or place.
Person's given name and birth date who is most associated with the item.
Picture year. Description.
The image's titles also sort logically when they are viewed in Window's
Explorer.
Mike Fox
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 8:43 AM
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> Subject: RE: [TMG] Back again with photo database questions)
>
> 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
>
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