Family Historian User Group

Thanks Lorna. I've considered shifting more toward date ranges for those situations, as was suggested earlier in this thread and elsewhere. In many cases that is a good compromise. In others, maybe not so much. For example, there is a discrepancy of 9 years for the birth date of one of my ancestors,...

Thank you Adrian and Mike for the tip. Disabling the Automatic Ordering feature does do what I was wanting, in that my currently "preferred" dates are shown in places like the Main tab and the Focus Window. I'm still undecided as to whether I should go that route or break down and consolidate on sin...

I'm another FTM refugee and I'm not surprised to see a couple of posts on this topic. It seems odd that a genealogy program wouldn't make it easy to promote an alternate fact, such as an alternate birth date, to primary or preferred. It's not unusual to find enough evidence supporting an alternate d...