This screen allows you to select a new image to record as a new multimedia object in your Family Historian GEDCOM file and link to your census source.

When the screen appears, click on the button with three dots on it … and select the image file (Actually it doesn't have to be an image file, in theory any file can be included as a multi-media file and linked to your source).

Once you have selected the file in the Open File dialogue box and pressed OK, information will be displayed in the lower portion of the screen.

The information displayed includes a thumbnail of the image (if it is of a type that Gedcom Census is able to display), the file type (e.g. jpeg) and the image date (the date of the census). You can see a full-screen version of the image by clicking on the thumbnail.

Beneath this you will be given a choice of titles for you to decide upon:

• Option 1: The title is set to be the same as the file name
• Option 2: The title is set to be the same as the title given to the census source. If more than one image is being attached to the source they will automatically be named as title1, title2, etc.
• Option 3: The title is set to be the same as the Reference Code for this census entry. If more than one image is being attached to the source they will automatically be named as title1, title2, etc.
• Option 4: The title is set to whatever you type in to the bottom box.

If you select the Rename the file to match the title check-box then the file will be renamed to match the title chosen above.

Gedcom Census will remember the Option you selected and whether you decided to rename the file and will present this as the default selection next time you use this screen.

Pressing OK will rename the file if that option was selected but will not create the multi-media record yet, this happens when OK is pressed on the next screen.

I have a folder where I keep all of the images that are attached to my family tree records. I have a sub-folder called census and within this, sub-folders for each year of the census, e.g. 1891, 1901, etc. When I find a new census record using.www.ancestry.co.uk or a Census CD-ROM I save the image to the appropriate folder but I just save it as any arbitrary file name which I will recognise. I then create the census record as usual. When I come to add the new image I have the New Image Screen set to make the title of the image match the title of the census source (option 2) and I tick the Rename the file to match the title check-box. In this way all my census images match my census source titles and are therefore easy to identify.

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