[Gramps-users] Medias, sources and sourcerefs

[Hubert T. <hub...@nu...>]

I am a relatively new user to genealogy and Gramps and I started to organize
my source and media data upon the scheme "one source - one reference", which
seemed at first the most intuitive to me. After studying several posts on
the subject, I finally changed my mind and choosed the official way (as I
understood it !) of doing things, ie "one source - multiple references". I
also chose to attach transcription or source text notes to the media object,
not to the source object.

To illustrate by an example :
Before : 
Repository = none
source = birth certificate of XXX, date DDD, archive AAA of parish PPP
source notes = transcription of birth certificate
media = scan of birth certificate of XXX, date DDD, archive AAA of parish
PPP
(As you see, this lead to some confusion between media and source for me !)

After :
Repository = parish PPP
source = archive AAA
sourceref = archive AAA, page scan NNN
media = birth certificate of XXX, date = YYY, page scan NNN
media notes = transcription of birth certificate

with media objects appearing in the local Tab of source.

The major drawback of this approach is that there is no direct link between
the birth event and the associated media (scan of birth certificate) and I
have to manage manually the reference (page or scan image number) in the
media object name to find the good media object in the gallery tab. Not
ideal !

Now, my questions :
Is this really the standard way of entering data, or is there a better one ?
With this approach, how can I get the list of all events or individuals
linked to a given sourceref (Archive AAA, scan NNN int the example) ?

and an accessory one : what are the
~/.gramps/grampsdb/nnnnnnnn/log.00000000nn files in the .gramps directory ?
They occupy a lot of space : are they all necessary ? 

Thanks all for your anwsers and advices.
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