Family Historian User Group

Thank you all for your comments and advice.

I was just trying to see if it was possible to speed up the creation of generic sources when I was creating a lot of very similar generic sources but it looks as though that is not possible.

I'm actually a splitter for most sources

I would really like to be able to create generic sources in respect of baptism and burial registers rather than create individual sources for each entry but really want a template as I have been looking at a lot of parish registers and often have about a dozen entries to document for each register. ...

I used similar UK census tags in TMG and looking at my data and they seemed to have transferred over in a sensible fashion. Recently migrated from TMG v6, via v9 using the import feature into FH7. You might want to tweak things once you are in FH but I wouldn't think it is worth redoing them before ...

Thank you to you both

In TMG I found it really helpful to be able to see a spouse/marriage date for children on the main focus window.

Is it possible to customise the FH7 main focus window to show this and if so, how please?

Thank you for any suggestions/advice

I had that problem with the sentence structure when I originally tried importing to FH7 from my old TMG7 project; no issues when I had updated it to TMG9 prior to the import.

Thank you to you both for your patience. I was obviously getting confused with the different windows that had source templates and definitions, and as you probably gathered, getting a little frustrated. I was obviously trying to delete the essential template from the wrong screen/window and have fou...

Sorry I wasn't explicit enough - the delete button is greyed out on the source template definitions - the delete key on the keyboard has no effect and there is no option to remove it from project. Is it possible that this is due to me still using a trial version of FH7? On my version essentials sour...

Thanks Cole Vally Girl, but I don't know whether I can wait that long :) Alternatively, after creating your custom template, remove (delete) from your project the standard Source Template Record (View > Other Record Lists > Source Templates, select the standard template which will be part of the Ess...

You say you "love the templates with data assistants" so I guess you're using Source Templates and templated Source records. So it should be possible to define Source Template metafields for Type, County Code, and Name. Then the Sources tab can have columns for those fields that you can sort by. As...

Thanks for that but I think I tried that already but the DEA didn't work with it as it turned into a custom source. Maybe I did something wrong in that though.

Hi Mike It is probably possible to modify a DEA to compose the Short Title you are talking about but that is only necessary if the above techniques are unsatisfactory. Thank you for explaining how things work. As my sources have always been arranged by type and geographically, it sounds as though my...

Hello, Coming back to genealogy afte 15 years, I was shocked to find I couldn't upgrade my TMG7(UK) and other software, but thanks to trial versions of TMG9 and FH7 I am playing with FH and very pleased with it on the whole. I really love the templates with data assistants, so perfect for UK sources...