Legacy - Adding images

To add a picture, select the person you want and open up their card Click on the fifth icon along. When you hover over it, it says Pictures, Sound and Video.

• A window opens which has a grid of 16 empty tiles in it.

• Click on the picture symbol from the list at the right hand side.

• A small window opens up; browse to find where the picture is on your computer. Once you have found it and its name is highlighted in blue, click OK.

• The picture appears and you can add a caption to it. Then click on close, which, in Legacy, confusingly means save.
  
  

When you open Legacy, this picture will appear on the person’s card. If you have added more than one photo, you can choose the one you prefer to show on start up. If you look towards the top right of the grid, you will see a star. Click on this and it will move along your pictures, leave it on the one you want to choose.

This first grid is best used for general photos of the person. If you have added census information as an event, it is best to attach the census image which you have downloaded to the event.

Open up the census event and you will see the picture icon on the top of the page. Attach your census in the same way you did above. Birth, death and marriage certificates are best saved in their correct places.

For a birth certificate, for example, open up the persons card, move along the line which says 'born in'.... At the right hand end of the line is a plus sign; clicking on this gives a choice of birth address, birth notes and birth pictures. Choose the pictures and add as normal. Once saved, you can tell there is something to see because the cross turns blue. For marriages, you will see the picture symbol at the end of the line under the couples name.

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