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- 08 May 2024 17:51
- Forum: Ancestral Sources
- Topic: Question about user-template configurations
- Replies: 19
- Views: 633
Re: Question about user-template configurations
You can use the same source template to each of the different source types (Census, Birth, Baptism), etc. and each can have different field values specified. But you can't link a source template twice to one of those source types. If there was a field in your template that could distinguish between ...
- 08 May 2024 06:58
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Residence date range help
- Replies: 9
- Views: 324
Re: Residence date range help
Each time I find a source which gives evidence of residence of an individual I record a separate residence (or census) fact for each (each with a citation linking it to the source record). I think of these as being markers for me that there is a source that indicates they lived in this place on this...
- 03 May 2024 10:29
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Record window anomaly
- Replies: 17
- Views: 504
Re: Record window anomaly
Slightly off-topic (but only a little), I've always been frustrated that clicking on a column that is sorted in ascending order doesn't then flip it to be descending like it does in most applications I use. I can never remember which of the control keys I need to hold down when clicking so end up tr...
- 02 May 2024 11:36
- Forum: Ancestral Sources
- Topic: Tutorial Videos
- Replies: 3
- Views: 251
Re: Tutorial Videos
Hi Steve The videos to watch (that Mike refers to in his response) are hosted in my Ancestral Sources YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ancestralsources The best video to start with is the Ancestral Sources Introduction . This goes through how to create a census entry in Ancestral Sources an...
- 01 May 2024 12:25
- Forum: Installing, Migrating & Upgrading
- Topic: Lost Instolation Code
- Replies: 8
- Views: 339
- 24 Apr 2024 19:55
- Forum: Ancestral Sources
- Topic: Monumental Inscriptions - thoughts?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 1884
Re: Monumental Inscriptions - thoughts?
AS is generally about recording sources that refer to individuals in your family historian project. You may of course have occasional people in sources that you record with AS where you don't create them as individuals such as marriage witnesses or lodgers in a census, etc. but that will usually be ...
- 24 Apr 2024 13:23
- Forum: Web Site Usage
- Topic: Weekly email of forum topics
- Replies: 31
- Views: 4912
Re: Weekly email of forum topics
Presumably the cron job is running a routine that then sends the emails. Is it possible that this routine is set to restart if it times out (or something like that) and for some reason it timed out twice today?
- 24 Apr 2024 12:00
- Forum: Ancestral Sources
- Topic: Monumental Inscriptions - thoughts?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 1884
Re: Monumental Inscriptions - thoughts?
I know that I'm late to the party! This would be a great addition to AS, but I'm hoping that it will be able to accommodate the tomb-style memorials which often have inscriptions on each side (of which I have several). Perhaps there could be an option to "Add Another" to allow the panels ...
- 24 Apr 2024 11:57
- Forum: Ancestral Sources
- Topic: Monumental Inscriptions - thoughts?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 1884
Re: Monumental Inscriptions - thoughts?
If a gravestone has 'Here lies the body of'. Then the source is saying that they were buried there. So quite reasonably this can lead to a burial fact being created with the place/address recorded. As I said the estimated date would be optional. People record data in different ways, just because you...
- 17 Apr 2024 09:10
- Forum: Ancestral Sources
- Topic: Monumental Inscriptions - thoughts?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 1884
Re: Monumental Inscriptions - thoughts?
One of the things about 'standard' graves for people who are actually buried beneath is that usually the inscription has a date of death, not burial. So the way AS will handle this I think is to offer to generate a burial fact which will have the Place/Address as the graveyard with an option to esti...
- 13 Apr 2024 22:04
- Forum: Web Site Usage
- Topic: Private Messages
- Replies: 49
- Views: 1800
Re: Private Messages
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.
- 07 Apr 2024 14:41
- Forum: Ancestral Sources
- Topic: AS v7.8.6 and Crossover install
- Replies: 5
- Views: 209
Re: AS v7.8.6 and Crossover install
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.
- 07 Apr 2024 12:21
- Forum: Ancestral Sources
- Topic: AS v7.8.6 and Crossover install
- Replies: 5
- Views: 209
Re: AS v7.8.6 and Crossover install
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...
- 05 Apr 2024 17:33
- Forum: Ancestral Sources
- Topic: Monumental Inscriptions - thoughts?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 1884
Re: Monumental Inscriptions - thoughts?
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...
- 05 Apr 2024 16:39
- Forum: Ancestral Sources
- Topic: Monumental Inscriptions - thoughts?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 1884
Re: Monumental Inscriptions - thoughts?
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...
- 05 Apr 2024 16:08
- Forum: Ancestral Sources
- Topic: Monumental Inscriptions - thoughts?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 1884
Re: Monumental Inscriptions - thoughts?
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...
- 05 Apr 2024 15:03
- Forum: Programming Technicalities
- Topic: Plugin Author Guidelines in KB
- Replies: 28
- Views: 683
- 04 Apr 2024 19:34
- Forum: Ancestral Sources
- Topic: Monumental Inscriptions - thoughts?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 1884
Monumental Inscriptions - thoughts?
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 ...
- 04 Apr 2024 10:55
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Marriage record id
- Replies: 12
- Views: 445
Re: Marriage record id
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...
- 02 Apr 2024 20:13
- Forum: Ancestral Sources
- Topic: Source type issue
- Replies: 2
- Views: 207
Re: Source type issue
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
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
- 27 Mar 2024 15:50
- Forum: Plugin Technical Support & Development
- Topic: Potential Probate Plugin
- Replies: 61
- Views: 6280
Re: Potential Probate Plugin
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.
- 26 Mar 2024 20:52
- Forum: Plugin Technical Support & Development
- Topic: Potential Probate Plugin
- Replies: 61
- Views: 6280
Re: Potential Probate Plugin
I've not really had much experience with calendar entries. Most of the wills I've used have been full original hand-written ones.
- 26 Mar 2024 20:43
- Forum: Diagrams & Charts
- Topic: Importing charts into a word document
- Replies: 13
- Views: 758
Re: Importing charts into a word document
Yes I agree, this was a very helpful and interesting post from Mark.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.
- 26 Mar 2024 20:38
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Adding Media files.
- Replies: 63
- Views: 1815
Re: Adding Media files.
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...
- 26 Mar 2024 20:28
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Adding Media files.
- Replies: 63
- Views: 1815
Re: Adding Media files.
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...