- Scanned or downloaded document Image Files such as JPEG or PNG can be added in a similar fashion to photographs, but would typically be linked to the Media tab of Source RecordsSource: "where information was found". This could be anything from an archive in a county records office, a book, or even a relative's recorded recollection. Citing your Sources helps to show how you reached a particular conclusion about an Individual.. Use Add > Pictures…
- Document Files in textual formats such as PDFThe Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed by Adobe to present documents in their original formatting, independent of software, hardware, and operating systems. PDF files can contain text, graphics, links, and buttons, form fields, audio, video, and or DOCX can be added, but will not be automatically displayed within ƒh, nor included in Diagrams, Reports or Books. However, clicking the Open in Editor/Player button
in a Media window will open any document in its default viewer such as Adobe Acrobat or Microsoft Word. Use Add > Document…. If the document is predominantly an image, it is best to convert it to an Image File format using one of the Graphics Packages or copy & paste each image within a document to a separate image file. For text within such documents use copy & paste to copy to Text From SourceBoth Source records and Citations have a Text From Source field intended to hold transcripts of source documents. or similar transcript text fields. - It is possible to similarly add Video and Sound media files, which will play by clicking the Open in Editor/Player button . Use Add > Other Media….
- Internet hyperlinks may also be added. The Format field should be set to url, and File set to a Shortcut URL file; for example Media\wikipedia.url with a URL of http://www.wikipedia.org. Then the Open in Editor/Player button will open the web page in your default browser. The Add Media URL Shortcut pluginPlugins are small programs that allow new features to be added without upgrading Family Historian itself; some plugins are written by Calico Pie and others are written by users. offers an easy way to add a Shortcut URL file, via a new Media recordWhen you add a picture, video, sound recording, document file etc into a Family Historian project, a Media record is created to represent that media item within the project; the Media record includes a link to the actual Media file., to the Media tab of a selected record.
- It is best to avoid using Add > OLE Object… unless you fully understand the concepts involved, and that the Open in Editor/Player button only seems to operate in the Media Window.
in a Media window will open any document in its default viewer such as Adobe Acrobat or Microsoft Word. Use 
Internet hyperlinks may also be added. The Format field should be set to url, and File set to a Shortcut URL file; for example Media\wikipedia.url with a URL of http://www.wikipedia.org. Then the Open in Editor/Player button Note:
- Sometimes, when browsing to add files, the Windows file-type option bottom-right, may need to be set to All files (*.*) to show all filenames.
- Regarding all of the above Media types, none of them are displayed in Diagrams and Reports. The Plugin Improve Website or CD DVD HTML allows hyperlinks for non-image media to be added to ƒh published website/CD/DVD family trees.
- See Multimedia File Formats for further details.
Last update: 24 Feb 2024