The native TNG search form and pagination controls in browsemedia.php are laid out and interact differently than in other TNG search pages.
This mod reconfigures them so that, for example, the pagination controls are now adjacent to the "Matches x to y of z" message,
and both are below the the search form.
Under the control of three mod configuration settings:
A "Media Collections" selection box is displayed so users can more easily switch to another collection,
while keeping the current search string and tree.
An information icon is placed next to the searchstring field. The popup help text is
An information icon is placed next to the Gallery button, to explain what "Gallery" means and does.
In the results table:
The fixed-width "Info" column (which is often empty) is allowed to float with the results table.
The fixed width of the "Linked to" column is enlarged.
If more than one tree is active in the search, there is now a column for the tree ID.
When "All Media" are being displayed, there is now a column for the Collection.
The results table is no longer forced to be the full width of the page.
Map-First Settlers of Northhampton, Massachusettes, 1893 Map-First Settlers of Northhampton, Massachusettes, 1893, from "Early Days of New England, Life and Times of Henry Burt of Springfield and Descendants", 1893, Clark W. Bryan Co, Springfield, MA
Mary Arbuckle Obituary Newspaper articles with obituaries of Mary Arbuckle Barron, and of her mother-in-law (I think), 54 years apart. Both were Mrs Charles Barron. Posted on Ancestry by cwilson226
Mary Dickinson Arbuckle's grave honored by DAR DAR To Honor Grave of Soldier's Daughter, From the Anderson, Indiana Herald, June 8, 1953 Mary (Polly) Dickinson Arbuckle was the only known daughter of a Revolutionary War Veteran to be buried in Madison County, Indiana (in 1847). She was born in 1784 at Fort Randolph, Virginia (at Point Pleasant, now in West Virginia), to William Arbuckle Nelson and Catherine Madison (who are also my ancestors). William Arbuckle served in the Virginia Militia throughout the war, and most notably at the Battle of Point Pleasant in 1774. (Yes, it is generally considered to be a Revolutionary War battle, because, though the British didn't participate, they had signed a treaty with the Native Americans who participated, and failed to assist the militia as promised). The article notes that William Arbuckle explored the Northwest Territories with William Rogers Clark after the Revolutionary War. Clark's forays into the Northwest Territories were actually military engagements with the British and allied native Americans during the war. It may not be clear that, at that time, the "Nortwest Territories" covered portions of what are not Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin. The article also states that William Arbuckle was the commandant of Fort Randolph when Mary was born. His brother Matthew definitely was commandant of the fort in the late 1770's, particularly when the Native American Chief Cornstalk was murdered there. The fort was abandoned by 1780, and rebuilt a few years later. William definitely served at the rebuilt fort, but it is not clear whether he was ever the commandant. - Robin Richmond
Media items (whether images, PDF files, word-processiong files, web pages, recording, videos, etc.)
saved within this application are listed in a database table that describes the media item
and points to its file.
They are organized into "Collections" by their content rather than by the file format.
This search focuses on the "histories" collection and selects items if
the search string is found in one of these three database fields:
Title. Titles are hyperlinked at the top of the Description column
in the results table below.
Description. Longer than the title, but usually no more than a few lines long.
BodyText. This can be an arbitrarily large block of text with rich formatting
(i.e headings, lists, borders, backgrounds, colors, hyperlinks, etc).
The bodytext sometimes just adds a bit more information beyond the description and
and sometimes it is virtually a full web page.
But most media items do not have a bodytext value, ,
(The bodytext is not shown on this page.
You can see it only if you view the media item by clicking on the image thumbnail or hyperlinked title.)
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What's in the 'Gallery'
The Gallery shows just thumbnail images; no descriptive text to identify media items. It may be useful only for photos.
Significantly, media items without thumbnails do not appear in the Gallery.
Media items that are not likely to have thumbnails include
Non-images such as Word documents, PDF's, HTML pages, etc.
Images that were scanned from books and other documents.
In truth, it wouldn't be hard to generate thumbnails for those images,
and some do have thumbnails, but it isn't generally worthwhile to do so, since
thumbnails of scanned documents are usually too small to reveal anything useful about the document.
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Media 'Collection'
This site uses thousands of media files including many types of images and documents. To facilitate various aspects of file management, they are are broken out into what might be called a functional categorization the we refer to as "Collection".
Some (not necessarily all) of the active collections are:
Photos - Most photographs of people, places, and things.
Histories - Stories and other narratives that are not primarily focused on data.
Censuses - Images of census worksheets from national and state censuses and other similar accountings of the people in a given place at a given time.
Documents - All other representations of formal documents such as marriage, birth, death, military draft, naturizalization, and graduation certificates; church and town birth, marriage, and burial registers; city directories etc., etc., etc.
Headstones - Photos, maps, and documents tied to an application feature that focuses on finding graves and headstones within cemeteries.
Clearly, many, files could be logically be assigned to different collections, and other potentially-useful collections come fairly easily to mind. But these functional collections are much more useful than a breakdown based on less ambiguous file formats.
This help message window can be dragged out of the way,
and left on the screen as long as you need it.
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