Topic: Media

Sub Categories

Adding Media to Sources and Citations (Version 6 and below)

If you have an electronic copy of a Source (for example, a scanned or downloaded image or certificate, or a text document), you will find it helpful to link it to the associated Source (for Method 1) or Citation (for Method 2)

Adding Multimedia to a Fact (Video Tutorial)

Linking media to a fact is a feature that was added to V4

Adding Photographs and Other Media

The animated tutorials below will help you get started with adding pictures to your tree

Changing External File Links (Video)

Short video on how to change and move media around using the Work with External File Links Tool

Common Image Problems

Copy & Paste and Drag & Drop

Right-click Copy & Paste and left/right-click Drag & Drop are standard features in all current versions of Windows, but are supported to varying degrees in different versions of Family Historian ()

Multimedia File Formats

Family Historian can attach any type of file to a Media Record, but only image files can be directly displayed within the program

Multimedia Window and Report (Video Tutorial)

This illustrates the features of the Multimedia Window and Multimedia Report.

Organise Your Files

Sooner or later you will begin to add pictures to Family Historian

Sources and Citations in Version 7 (for New Users)

Sources are an essential part of recording the results of your Genealogy research; they help you, and others, understand how you reached a particular conclusion — and where you might be mistaken