In the following example, we will build on Charles Robert Darwin’s death. Below is the image of the entry obtained from the General Register Office:
Source images should be downloaded or placed in the same folder as the file in which you are working.
Make sure that the “Media” section of the source edit panel is showing (use the “>” button to open it if it isn’t). The click on the “+” button. You can either add a local image, or link to one already in the gallery.
In this example, we will use a “Local image”, i.e. one that will be local to this source.
The “Media Picker” dialog will appear, showing the images in the project’s directory. Select the relevant one and click “Ok”:
The image will now be linked to the current source:
Multiple files can be added, if the particular source spans more than one page.
The image linked to the source can now be viewed within Pedigree Forge, on the “Source” tab:
The toolbar that runs along the top of the Source tab can be used to undertake various tasks, such as zooming in/out or moving to different images if there is more than one image for the source.
It is also possible to “Draw Paths” on top of the image. These don’t effect the original image, and only appear in Pedigree Forge or report outputs. You might, for example, want to highlight a particular entry on a census, as shown below:
Selecting “None” from the Draw Path box allows you to “grab” a large source image with the mouse and move to different sections. “Clear paths” clears all paths on the current image.