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Steve Hayes wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:21:28 +0100, Ian Goddard <goddai01@hotmail.co.uk>
> wrote:
> 
>> Of course the better way to do this is to have a genealogical program 
>> handle document references and current filing reference.  That, to me, 
>> makes a lot more sense than splitting the functionality over two 
>> different applications.
> 
> There isn't such a program at the moment,

Maybe true (but we'll review that in a moment) although there's a 
possibility that there may be something neither you nor I have seen.

> and, and I'm not sure that it's a good idea. You might as well ask your genealogy program to handle all your
> wordprocessing and calculating needs as well, but a stand-alone word processor
> and spread sheet would do it better. 

Not really.  Wordprocessing & calculating aren't part of genealogy. 
Keeping track of genealogical records is.  AFAICS RDF and Legacy must be 
  duplicating a good deal of person information.

But let's review whether existing programs can do this.

I use GRAMPS.  If I add a document as a source against an event or a 
person (and the same source can be linked to as many events and people 
as needed) it will automatically be allocated an ID (by default the 
letter S for source) and a serial.  On the source form there is a Data 
tab.  If I click on that I can add a data item.  That offers me the 
option of entering a key/value pair.  I could enter "Location" as the 
key and the filing reference as the value.  If I were subsequently to 
reorganise the filing I could go to each source as it gets refiled and 
update the location.

It's a bit of a long winded way of doing things as opposed to having a 
dedicated file-location field.  Nevertheless it does what you're doing 
with two separate apps which sounds even more long-winded.  But it still 
doesn't do word processing ;)

There's also a Gallery tab which allows media objects to be added so the 
alternative of scanning the sources is also possible.

GRAMPS is the only genealogy program I've used so I can't speak for the 
rest but I'd be surprised if something similar isn't possible with many 
of the alternatives.

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Ian

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