I am confused amount naming Memories
I research in old German church records for small farming towns. When I load a page into FamilySearch I want to put the name of the person in the title. However if I try to load the same image for another person (entries for multiple relatives on the same page) it tells me the image is already uploaded. It seems the only fix is to only name the image with the Church name and then the page of the book. However, that doesn't give you a descriptive title when you are looking in your gallery. I know I can just link a page to a person, but putting an image in Memories allows me to put a translation at the bottom.
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PS: Additionally, many of my church records are not available as images in FamilySearch.
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You are correct. You can and should only upload the same image once. This puts it into your Gallery.
Putting it on an individual's profile in Family Tree is actually a separate action accomplished by tagging the image to that person. An image can be tagged to multiple people. The image will then appear in the Memories page to everyone it is tagged to.
For example, this image is tagged to nine different people, the seven in the photo and their parents:
Therefore, this single upload appears on nine different Memories pages.
If you upload an image while on a person's Memories page, I think that first tag occurs automatically. I haven't done any uploading for a couple of months so am a little fuzzy on the exact procedure right now.
This means that the title for your image should indeed be general enough to describe what the full image actually is and not be limited to one small section of it.
(Please be sure that by posting the image of the church records you are researching you are not violating any copyright restrictions so that you do not get yourself or FamilySearch in trouble. If you just create a source that links to the image, you can still put your translation in the Notes section of the source.)
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You can tag a single image with the names of all the persons named in it, whether that is a group photo, or a vital record naming members of the family.
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Given that these are images of source documents, not of people or places, I suggest you treat them as source records rather than as photographs. Use the profile's Sources page and your Source Box instead of the Memories section.
They're not particularly well-documented or -labeled, but FamilySearch has some of the best sourcing tools available in online genealogy. Some of them work equally for documentation found on other websites or on paper rather than on FamilySearch, and all of them offer the ability to tag sources to specific conclusions on a profile, not just to the profile as a whole. And all of them have a Notes/Description field where translations or transcriptions can be entered.
I think of FS's sources as broadly falling into two categories: individual or group.
Individual sources refer to one specific person, such as a participant of a vital event, and they're generally meant to be attached once and only once. All of FS's index entries fall into this category, and "outside" sources can also be set up this way, with individualized titles like "Joe Bow in entry for Jim Sims, Hicksville Business Directory". (There'd be a different source to attach to Mr. Sims: "Jim Sims, Hicksville Business Directory".)
Group sources treat an entire document or entry as a unit, and you attach instances of the same source to as many profiles as it applies to. So, for example, instead of creating fifteen different sources to go with a funeral notice that names the deceased and fourteen of his relatives, you can enter just one source, with an identifying but general title like "Jim Sims funeral notice, Hicksville", and then attach instances of it to all fifteen profiles. The beauty of this setup is that if you notice a typo, or need to update the URL, or acquire a translation that's better than your initial attempt, then you can make the change just once, and it'll be corrected on all fifteen profiles.
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I think Gordon is saying the solution is to only mention the document name. Unfortunately his image never came through. When I create a source from the 1950 census, it gives me the source title in this format "1950 Raymond A Gross, 'United States 1950 Census' February 11, 2024 A Alan Rabe". Although this is a nice source title, it cannot be used for a Memory title. In other words, the Memory title would be something like United States Census, 1950: Cook. Census 1950 image 4 of 12. I then could attach it to the two people I have listed there. If I have any notes, it would be on the source link not on the Memory page. Memory page notes should only be used if they apply to all the people on the page. This makes adding a translation to the image very awkward and not useful. Perhaps the solution is to paste the image in Word and then add the translation. This would mean that I could address individuals specifically and be able then to have a title to the document with the names included. A source link would then also have the names showing. This method would then essentially enable me to have descriptive titles for individuals who happen to be on the same page in the record.
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