Family Historian User Group

The best I am coming up with is to not include an address on the range I use for the occupation, but to add specifics to the notes. The decision about how to handle this depends on what you want to do with the information. For example if you are interested in producing narrative reports you might f...

ColeValleyGirl wrote: ↑

17 Jun 2023 10:54

There's a Wish List item you can vote for: Add Media and other data to Address fields

Thanks! Have voted a resounding 5.

...like someone born in a house lived all there days there and died in it and 20 events through their life at that address, do we need to know their residence 20 times when it doesn't change at all? You don't need to record 20 Residence events. If you are satisfied that someone lived at the same ad...

Thank you, knew I'd missed something obvious!

Hi all, Once again this is possibly a newbie question, but i've tried searching the user group to no avail. I'd ideally like to connected to existing filed media rather than creating what is essentially a copy file in the Family Historian project folder. Over the years I have adapted my filing syste...

Thanks Lorna & Mike again - i just popped back on to this thread to say that i'd worked out how to customise a query to add in the address, a couple of quick sorts of the column and it gives me what I need - perfect for when i get the chance to visit a random village in Yorkshire. Just wish we could...

Thanks Tatewise! I read the guidance (it was super clear and helpful), which led me to starting with four parts rather than three, but having whole addresses for a place is going to leave to a lot of commas and spaces when I go back beyond 1800. Don't think I am quite onto custom plugins or queries,...

Hi folks Brand new to family historian, but tried really hard to search the forum before posting this. Beyond analysis & charts, the thing that attracts me to family history software, as opposed to ancestry, is discipline on place names so I can really see locations. So this is the part I have reall...