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Sarah, thanks for catching that!

ORA-L is indeed hosted at Google Groups, not Groups.io. I've edited my earlier post.

ORA links: https://www.ora-extension.com/en/index.htm#/ Terry's ORA Tips https://tmg.reigelridge.com/ORA.htm Before purchasing ORA, I joined the mailing list and lurked to get an idea of whether ORA would work for me. I haven't ventured into the world of ORA AutoType templates yet. But even without ...

I don't know what data is provided in FamilySearch *.csv files, but have you tried using the Flexible CSV Importer plugin to convert them into a Project and thus a mergeable GEDCOM? Thanks, Mike, I'll check out the plugin. The new FamilySearch search interface allows the user to choose what informa...

I have a source-centric workflow, starting with the image itself (what Ancestry calls "Citation Media"). Unless I am using Ancestral Sources, I generally create the multimedia object first, then the source, then use Auto-Source Citation to extract the data, along the lines of Colin Spencer's YouTube...

My husband's boss used to say "If you don't cite yourself, who will?" and in that spirit, I recommend my answer to Including name change for transgender person in genealogy at Genealogy and Family History Stack Exchange. https://genealogy.stackexchange.com/a/15849/1006 Rather than get into matters w...

I hate to throw a monkey wrench into the works, but -- What I would like to do is create a custom FamilySearch Family Tree ID field that allows me to store the ID for my own use, along with the date I entered the ID to Family Historian. The reason for this is that individuals on the FSFT from the 20...

I dislike attaching people via the "dummy" parent method. It introduces an extra child, which causes confusion when I am tracking the child count.

I prefer to attach the child to the head of household as an Associated Person until I have more information about the child's relation to the household.

Point taken, Mike, but since we were talking about an embedded program, I thought it would be worth asking. Some time ago, before Firefox was completely revamped, there was an add-on to allow you to run IE in a Firefox tab for sites which needed to be viewed in IE. I am not a developer or web design...

Could one do a hack by installing the embedded browser WebView2 (based on Edge/Chromium), and changing the filename of the executable to be the same as the IE executable that FH6 is expecting? I haven't yet tested this because 1) I have always used an external browser 2) I am expecting to switch to ...

Parking this here for reference: https://twitter.com/packrat74/status/1479284971625844740 So how do we get the archive reference for the #1921Census if we don't buy the transcript? David Underdown replied "reference is in the file name for most part. Schedule number should be written on front page" ...

On the 1911 census, one of the documents revealed by the Extra materials button is a list. That would show where there are multiple schedules for the same address. See bottom left on the attached. The one image I've looked at in the 1921 census doesn't have the list. :( We don't have enumerators' s...

Late to the party, but if anyone wants the blank forms and instructions for the 1921 Census as a reference, they can be downloaded for free via TNA's Discovery here. Link courtesy Audrey Collins on Twitter (@AudreyCollins23). https://twitter.com/AudreyCollins23/status/1479180239901274116 https://dis...

Disclaimer: Due to computer woes, I still haven't installed FH7 or investigated the DEAs.

You misunderstand Jim . Helen wants to create one Fact with its Source Citation and then duplicate that Fact in several Individual records. This is much the same as AS does to create multiple Census Events and is why AS is so useful. Helen wants to do something similar, but for a different Fact tha...

I tend to think that Elizabeth Shown Mills' ideas on citing sources can be a bit overwhelming, but ... I have a screenshot from Evidence Explained that I keep on my computer desktop. (Page 10 from ebook of the 2nd rev. ed, it's on page 8 of the 3rd and 3rd rev. editions, if I remember correctly.) I...

Unfortunately the US has been involved in so many wars, there are many record sets one would have to search through for records of military service. (Standard disclaimer: draft registration cards by themselves are not an indicator that someone actually served.) Fold3 made an infographic which was po...

As a thought on work-flow... The detailed temptation here is to take the person's date of birth, work out the appropriate registration date and just look for the appropriate registration collection. However, if I think about it, that's actually being too analytic about it - I'm more likely to find ...

In the Groups.io group which replaced the RootsWeb mailing list, a question came up about identifying all the people in a project that were alive on a certain date. The original questioner had in mind the upcoming 1921 Census. In the USA, we also have the release date for the 1950 US Federal Census ...

This question came up on Genealogy Stack Exchange: Including name change for transgender person in genealogy In my answer , I included links to several sets of ethical guidelines from genealogical organizations and from GLAAD and PFLAG. The TL;dr is: ask for Jill's consent before sharing any of her ...

There is a step missing from that process flow. Neither what you describe as "source-driven" nor "fact-driven" start just with the source. We don't pick an arbitrary document and see if it relates to our tree. We are interested in the source because we believe it supports a new fact. Usually we fin...

I am once again trying to enter associated people - and have forgotten how best to do this. These people are employees and collaborators. Women secretaries and so on. Is there any assistance with this in fh7? For instance if two people co-author a play or book. Many people escaped Nazi Germany beca...

By way of explanation, what kicked the original question off was my entering a Baptism event with a date that was, in fact, before the "circa" Birth Date I had recorded on the Birth Event for that individual and which resulted in the Baptism Event being placed before the Birth Event (which had a LM...

Thanks all for your comments on this thread. I've been pondering what to do about my GRO indexes. Like David, I do have some images (downloads from Ancestry, FreeBMD, etc.). I also have text-only bits from the GRO's own online searchable index. Since I create different sources for "the same" data wh...

Using AS, I would enter only the head of household in the census (with the counts of the people and other information in the Text, similiar to what Bill posted above). I would add the speculative census entries afterwards in Family Historian, leaving notes as to why I had inferred those persons migh...

Re: the purpose of recording sources. It can be useful to leave some breadcrumbs for ourselves about where we found items and when. E.g. recently Genealogy Bank lost the rights to several of the newspapers that I was using for my own family's research. Since I hadn' t been diligent about downloading...