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In any case, the plugin is somewhat redundant as FH V7 now has the View > Citations to Source Record... command which lists more information. Am I missing something? Ever keen to get rid of obsolete stuff (instead of doing real work), I just ran both PlugIn and View > Citations to Source Record... ...

In the case of an official adoption, I agree, however, the particular examples I have in my tree are from the late 19th century when it was a de facto relationship, with nothing official having taken place. ... Interesting - I admit that I treat both formal and informal adoptions the same, with jus...

Thanks, Mike - I'll definitely have a go at doing that :) ... The parental relationships are definitely the starting point, but before you try and squeeze everything out of data reference %INDI.FAMC.PEDI% in narrative reports, you might ponder whether you also need more. Certainly with a relationsh...

I'd agree with Mike. The whole tenor of the GEDCOM specification is that it records events such as birth, marriage and death and I believe that is standard practice - therefore that is what most people will expect to see. Altering principles like that carries a risk of misinterpretation. There are o...

Helen and I tend to approach stuff in a source record from different angles. Rightly or wrongly, I would characterise hers as a minimalist approach, viz: the objective of identifying the specific source beyond doubt I add to that, for my own purposes, a lot more analysis that says, in effect, "OK, n...

... Sentences generated for narrative reports will refer to the individual as either he or she, so make sure you have recorded them with their preferred gender/sex. ... You can add alternative names using the More... button next to the name field in the Property box. ... Just to be explicit about a...

fhtess65 wrote: ↑

08 Feb 2023 16:55

... but at least I've done what I can from Canada. ...

Ditto - except UK in my case, of course...

... I didn't come across anything that said you had to be a resident of Australia to sign unless it blocks you if you select another country of origin? ... I have a vague memory from another mailing list that you had to be an Australian citizen to sign the government e-petition one (because that's ...

... if you copy a file to another place on the same PC you will see the same. The modify stays the same and the create date is when the new file was created. So I wasn't imagining things then. I can justify that in my head by interpreting one as logical and the other as physical - but it is, as Lor...

... the counter-intuitive concept of a file being modified before it has been created! ... I have this vague and possibly erroneous idea that the last time I set a new machine up, the create-dates were set to the date that the file was created on the new machine, but the modified-dates were untouch...

There have been a number of times with Find A Grave where I've found an entry for an ancestor ... only to later realise this is just someone uploading burial records from the parish register. Yes this means they were buried there, but there's no grave stone ... Yeah. What don't they understand abou...

Try looking at the front of that part of the Register. Things seem to be rather more variable in registers than I had originally anticipated but the Crewe constituency had a ward in 1918 with the introduction (paraphrasing): Division 1 contains the names of those entitled to vote in both parliamenta...

Since I really like metadata, this issue rang a bell with me. It looks like we've been here before with what FH metadata import actually supports. If it's at all useful, see https://www.fhug.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=12761 The thread appears to have a lengthy subplot that's nothing to do wit...

Bear in mind that while two sites may start with identical collections, it is possible that they diverge over time. For instance, when FMP loaded the Cheshire Parish Registers (indexes and images), they used images from FamilySearch films and FS were contracted to provide the indexes, working from t...

I think that I've seen at least one Cheshire parish keep the old and new format marriage registers going - but only for a few years, IIRC. As it wasn't one of my main parishes, I just put it down as a quirk - I didn't do things like check the signatures. Although I do wonder if I'm getting mixed up ...

To add a little spice to the question of what the address of a baptism is, there are circumstances in Britain where the baptism didn't take place at the church whose register contains the baptism entry. I can't speak about circumstances outside Britain (all additions welcome) but I understand that i...

It is possible to create "Name Only" witnesses. These are entered as Witnesses but, if marked as "Name Only", have no individual record, only a "name". Because they have no individual record, pretty much anything can go into a "Name Only" witness' "name". For instance, the "name" could contain the t...

ColeValleyGirl wrote: ↑

22 Jan 2023 14:02

... Text from Source can be an abstract instead of a full transcription. ...

Yes, that would work provided it's made clear that it's an abstract or that it omits the data provided elsewhere.

However, there is one puzzling thing about this entry - if this is a later amendment, why is the original page number of 825 higher than the added page number 0465? Because it was entered in a subsequent quarter or year?... But then I struggle to see the point of the annotation - how is anyone read...

.... For early birth and death records, everything in the index can be captured in the template fields, so there is no need to use Text from Source at all. However, where do you put mother's maiden name or age at death/date of birth from later indexes? Just that information in the TfS looks silly, ...

In my generic sources I have ignored anything not in the source - ie, the equivalent of your option 1. If I need to find a source relating to a married woman going under her married name - ie probably not Scotland! - I tend to go via the individual's record. None of it's particularly swift, but it s...

As for what the annotations mean, I've been scrambling through various notes that I've saved, and one note appears to suggest that the /S refers to an annotation by the Superintendent Registrar. Whether the 465 is an annotation number for that SR's annotations (eg the 465th annotation that they have...

tatewise wrote: ↑

19 Jan 2023 14:34

Would 4 a 825 0465/S using the Strikeout S Rich Text format be a better representation?

Indeed it would - I don't always have a Rich Text hat on, I'm afraid. My version would be for use if Strikeout wasn't available.

Re the question of citations. So far (if I'm understanding it correctly) you appear only to have seen one index entry. That means one citation - it only becomes two citations when you've seen a second document. As for what you put, I'd have something like 4 a x825x [lined out] 0465/S I'd actually pu...