Re: Media>Photos>Captions>IPTC?

Hello - thanks for this thread - there don't seem to be many about this subject. I'm a little confused about how ITRC metadata works (or doesn't work) with ancestry products. Maybe you can provide some additional helpful comment.

I used IrfanView to open a JPG and went to Image/Information/ITRC and added lots of text to a field labeled Caption (Description). I also filled out the field "Document Title". Save. Export to ancestry. Nothing. Synch with FTM 12. Nothing.

So I went back to IrfanView again, and added lots of text to the JPG Comment fields. Save. Export to ancestry. Nothing. Synch with FTM. Nothing.

When I say Nothing, I mean no text that I input as metadata was displayed by ancestry products. On ancestry, the Picture Name is the filename and Description is blank, and on FTM, the caption is the filename and description is blank. I even went back again and added date and location info to the ITRC fields and again nothing.

I don't see that IrfanView lets me edit/add EXIF info - is that the metadata that ancestry products would use?

I appreciate your sharing insights and experience. I've just recently come to the conclusion that identification of photo content really needs to be embedded in the image metadata, but why go to that work if no application displays it?

thanks, Mary Ann