I cam across a nice old family photo with 14 people all contained in my family tree.

What is the best method to attached this photo in FTM? What I think I am seeing with my current approach - attach the image one person at a time - then I will have 14 copies of the same image in the media folder

Am I doing something wrong? Any suggestions?

What if I attached the image in Ancestry.com, then sync'd w/FTM - same results??

At whatever place you are looking for in adding the image to a person, you can:

1 - Add New Media - (add any media your computer can access on your compouter via Windows Explorer)

2) - Link Media - whereby you are presented with a list of media already in FTM and you can add a link to that photo to your person. This will not create a second copy of the media.

The above can be done at:

People > Family > Media button in right pane.l
People > Person > Media button in button row below where facts are listed and above where notes begin.

(You can also add media to a source or a fact, but that is not often done).

Perhaps the quickest way to add the photo is to add via attaching it to a Citation of a Source. Then, copy the link to the citation to the same fact for the 14 people (like to the marriage fact if the picture was taken at a wedding, or you could even setup a Custom Fact for "photo" and attach the source citation to it. Only one pic will be added to the FTM file.

Another method: Once you add the media to one person (or directly to the media workspace), from the media workspace, find the photo. On the right pane, where you enter caption/description/etc, click the little person icon. This allows you to link the one photo to numerous people. It will not create duplicates in either FTM or your ancestry tree.

Very nice, that seems to do the trick!

Thanks!