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Late in life I am constructing a family database to pass on the information I have to following generations, and to include many old photos of family members, so far this is going well. I would like some help with a couple of how-to's: 1. For future generations I would like to somehow identify myself as the original author to give some provenance to the information included. 2. I have some pictures of long lost cousins, and cannot with certainty identify which is which of two sisters, how can I link the information between them or is my only choice to repeat it for each of them?
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With most problems there is probably more than one answer.
1 You can add as much detail as you like when you add a picture in GenoPro. You can identify a source - yourself - and use this from the picture menu, so it is easy to add to all of them; just a click or two from the Source window there.
You can also create other more specific sources eg 'Photos taken at June's wedding May 2000'. If you then edit that source you could expand the information there.
You can also add information to each photo in the Comments box
2 Not sure what you mean here. If you want to link the same photo to each cousin this is not a big problem. GenoPro does not build the photo into the file; it just contains a reference as to which directory it is in (and filename of course). If it is more complex than that then you can create a different sort of file, text or image and this can then be referenced from each cousin.
A couple of points for long term use. Computers are changing all the time; I have 8in, 5 in and 3.5in discs that I can not read. I have been told that Cd drives will not be made for computers in the future, although present day DvD drives read these discs - for now. So alternative forms of storage are needed. I shall have to bite the bullet some time and convert my information into a paper document. I am looking at records 400 years old, although I do not suppose our family history will be so long lived. You can publish your family tree on the internet, which puts off the problem of obsolescent PCs. One detail here; you can not use the Genopro report module for very high resolution pictures - there is a size limit.
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Ref:1. I was thinking in terms of making the identity of the tree creator immediately visible on opening either by way of titling or labelling the page, or to mark his place in the tree in some way but I gather that is not possible. Ref:2. I was looking for suggestions here, possibly to have a 'comments file' linking two identities in the tree but can see that is probably not practical. I am aware that I can add a picture to more than one identity and will have to do that.
I am sure there are many things this program can do that I haven't even discovered yet. The trouble is in trying to add so much information, scanning and storing hundreds of pictures, it has to be documented in small doses.
Re storage, I believe apart from technology progression that current storage media is not guaranteed long term either. Top quality media is obviously required with perhaps an external hard drive as belt and braces, although this is also subject to failure. 'Written in stone' is the only answer!
Thank you for your assistance.
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You can do what I think you want, depending on whether you are talking about a GenoPro display or GenoPro report.
In the first case you can add a text label, which could be copied to every GenoMap. This can contain any text you want and can be varied in font size and colour background/border.
In a report there are several ways to add text to the initial page. The simplest is to use the Report Generator. When creating it, click on the Document tab where you can add a title and also text that appears at the top of the first page .
A more complete implementation is described in http://support.genopro.com/Topic16904-90-1.aspx#bm17355
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Thanks again, adding a label was exactly what I wanted to do and will solve both problems, although I have since resolved the identityof the two photos in question.
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