[Gramps-users] adding scanned source documents to gedcom before import?

[Joe B. <as...@co...>]

Please bear with me here, I have been working with GRAMPS for all of a couple hours.

I have a file in gedcom format and want to augment it with pointers to various
document images and load the result into GRAMPS.

Looking at the gedcom I have and at the specs for gedcom I saw that I can put a multimedia
link record under a source reference record.  That seemed perfect so that's what I did.

However, working with the result in GRAMPS it appears to associate the images with
the source, not the source reference.  At least, when attempting to verify something like
a name or a birth event, I end up looking at dozens of images associated with the source
instead of the single image associated with the reference.  Not Good.

One approach mentioned in the mailing list was to put media links under events.  Not all
my source references are under events, though, some are under things like name records
that do not allow media link records.

It would appear that the best thing is to perform some source splitting so there are fewer
references per source.  Maybe even just one.

Comments?

Joe Buehler