Media – Family Historian User Group

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Add Media to a Fact: Adding media to a fact by selecting a file
Add Pictures Using Media Window: Add pictures to a Family Historian project using the Media Window
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 Other Media: 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 Records
Change External File Links: 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 ()
Family Photograph and Source Media Management: An in depth look at media management in Family Historian V7.
Grab the Web (Save Media & Text direct from Web to FH via Drag & Drop or Copy & Paste): Subscription sites like Ancestry, MyHeritage, FindMyPast, etc
Linking Media Files to Facts, Events and Individuals: This video demonstrates how to create simple and frame links to faces using Family Historian 7
Media 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
Media File Renaming: This video demonstrates how to rename meaningless file names after downloading from Ancestry
Media Keywords Filtering and Searching: Keywording in Family Historian – how Media Keywords help group and manage your genealogy media collections.
Media Metadata: Metadata is a valuable addition to any digital file, audio, video or image files
Media Window and Report: This illustrates the features of the Media Window and Media 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
Sources and Citations in Version 8 (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