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I've not seen any options to send pms. I have been sent many emails over the years through the Fhug facility but never a pm as far as I remember.

I've just checked and this procedure for setting the tab colours was in AS from at least version 5 in 2014 and probably for longer than that so it isn't something new.

This is related to the tab control that is displayed on the main screen for the non-census source types where it has Main Info, Residence, etc. The standard .net framework winforms tab control doesn't allow the tabs to have a colour to match the rest of the control so they look really odd. So the ro...

Yes. It would be easy to create a duplicate entry in the Source_Citation when creating the events associated with the source. I do this for any source be it a census, church record, newspaper article, etc. To help with keeping the actual information from the source together I usually generate a sha...

Just as a follow up Nick on my 'Memorial' fact - this came about because I found that there are occasions when a person is mentioned on a Gravestone but there is no 'proof' that the person is actually buried in that cemetery, or I actually know that the person is buried elsewhere (a prime example h...

Thanks for the responses so far. It appears that Monumental Inscription is a generally acceptable name. There are a number of different opinions regarding the Date field on the source template but I am inclined to go with the idea of the date being filled in by default only if there is just one pers...

ADC65 wrote: ↑05 Apr 2024 11:26 I believe Ancestral Sources also does version checks that can't be switched off, but my point was general and I didn't want to start picking out people or plugins for criticism.

Ancestral Sources isn't a plugin

Dear all I'm working on the next source type to be supported by Ancestral Sources - Monumental Inscriptions and had some points I'd appreciate opinions on. Firstly I've currently decided to call the source type 'Monumental Inscriptions'. They are often referred to as MIs in family history books and ...

The way I see it is that there are effectively 4 views of your data available in FH, not counting queries and reports. In the initial versions of Family Historian the records view was the main view and this allows access to all fields, all the data. However, this wasn't a very friendly interface for...

Hi Colin

AS has always by default created 1939 register sources with type 'Register'. There was a post last October that explained how to get AS to change the source type to be 1939 Register so I expect you must have used a setting like that.

Cheers

Nick

Just to mention that I am actively working on the two source types for Ancestral Sources: gravestones (MIs) and probate and making good progress now (particularly gravestones) but it will be much later in the year before these are likely to appear I think.

I've not really had much experience with calendar entries. Most of the wills I've used have been full original hand-written ones.

HeatherARobertson wrote: ↑26 Mar 2024 20:19 This was a fantastic tip from the above poster! Never thought of doing this, just tried it and it works perfectly. So glad I came across this post.

Yes I agree, this was a very helpful and interesting post from Mark.

I agree Adrian, the terminology doesn't really matter at all. However in case you find it of interest.... The reason why I believe Ancestral Sources is a 'source driven' approach is that you are entering the details of the source, effectively transcribing the source in AS, and from that all the fac...

Can I ask BillH and Nick when they developed the muscle memory for fact driven data entry in FH? Also was there no alternative when they did? The key point is that 99% of the sources I enter are birth, baptism, marriage, death, burial and Census and I enter those with AS. I could turn this round an...

For the documents that AS doesn't handle for me - for example gravestones, obituaries, etc. - I create the fact first - let's say a burial fact based on an obituary. Then with that fact selected in the property box, I click the "Add Citation" in the sources box at the bottom of the screen...

I agree Adrian, the terminology doesn't really matter at all. However in case you find it of interest.... The reason why I believe Ancestral Sources is a 'source driven' approach is that you are entering the details of the source, effectively transcribing the source in AS, and from that all the fact...

Please could you explain what benefit you gain by linking a census image to the fact given that from the facts tab as it's only three clicks to select the fact, open the media pane on the citation and open the image in the Editor/player? Adrian explained in his answer to me that this was an experim...

I just mean that when the rich-text is ready, just before you click save, you could highlight the text and copy it (Ctrl+C or right-click context menu) and then paste it into the rich text (Ctrl+V or right-click context menu).

Teresa, try looking in Tools, Census Templates... Then Fact, Use custom event Thanks John, sorry Teresa - wrong template. I could see the census template editor in my head when I was writing my response but wrote autotext template editor instead. As I've commented before, there are too many templat...

If I was to hypothetically decide to start linking images to Facts (keeping in mind I already link them to Sources), is there any way in AS to do this? Having had a good look around the options, I think probably not. I understand your moral objection to linking 'fact' images to people, but does tha...

The answer to this really depends on what you're trying to achieve. If you use the electoral registers built into AS with generic sources then the source type will automatically change to be Electoral Register and the title too. But as you don't use generic sources I expect this isn't the issue. I e...

Hi Mike It sounds like you are using FH v7 templated sources and are using a Family Historian Census template, presumably the 'Essentials Collection Civil Census Return'. The definition for the record title for this template is: image.png When you use Templated Sources the title for the source is co...

Ah OK sorry I'd misunderstood what you were doing... The conversion process is trying to find a 'grid' of data within your original source text. It uses this to populate the grid above so that this can then be inserted into the rich-text using the selected auto-text template. It reports any text tha...

Thank you all for the help. I was looking at the Outline and Narrative reports. Haven't played with it too much yet. Also, what are Ahnentafel numbers? In the FH Help it says: Ahnentafel numbers are a common system for numbering a given person’s ancestors. The person themselves is numbered 1, their...