Family Historian User Group

For what it's worth, the omission of a father's name implies she admitted to being illegitimate. That would suggest that you can discard any birth certificate with married parents as not being her. Unless, of course, the mother lied about her marriage. And unfortunately, it's not easy for you to tel...

I think it is often useful to have alternative ways of doing similar thing. Absolutely. If you log-off, you have to start the selection process from scratch anyway, so what is the difference between Find Source Record in the Auto Source Citation pane, and finding it in the Records Window ~ Sources ...

Also, I just thought... there is something fundamentally illogical about using a Citation pane to create a Source-record (be it cloned or whatever) - the two are different entity types and ought to be kept separate if you want a clean User Interface.

If you have just created that first baptism Source for Auto Citation then you would have used the Create button on the left, as originally suggested by Lorna. Therefore, that first baptism Source is already in the Source Title box, and you don't need to find it at all in order to use Clone Source R...

I agree it's do-able that way, Mike, but if I'm entering a series of baptisms, the source I want to clone is probably slap bang at the top of the Source Records pane (or bottom). Why should I need to select it again by using a drop-down list or going via that cog menu? The issue is not that it can't...

OK - I've been trying it but it really is clunky now, for me. Suppose I want to clone a baptismal source record for the next child in the family. I copy it and add the new source record as an adjusted version of the old. No change. Previously, I then selected it, clicked on the tool for automatic ci...

I suggest that you should think how you want to access the information that you are putting into FH. Do you think that you might want to pull off a list of all buying their first car events? Do you think you might want to pull off a list of all events when one of your relatives was wounded in battle...

My only current thought about positioning pictures in a sensible position in a report from FH would be to stick some placeholder text into the note for the appropriate fact - part of the text would locate the multimedia needed at that point. Then, once the report has been produced, do some post-proc...

... Does this mean that any pdfs or Word documents will not show in a report?... This inability to show "linked" PDFs or Word files as text bugged me until I started thinking about it. The summary is that even MS Word won't "embed" a PDF (and I've forgotten whether "embed" is the correct term) and ...

Even if you shrink the tree, lose the blank sheets and rearrange everything logically (probably impossible) the central problem remains. Can you understand a single diagram with 421 people on it? I came to the conclusion that I couldn't so gave up trying to produce the things. These days I have a su...

Yes, be careful you understand what the free bit is. Sometimes "free" means absolutely everything is free including all the answers in whatever form they come. Sometimes it means you can submit the enquiry for free, you get a basic list back for free but you pay to see the details. Sometimes payment...

I have no means of backing this up but I have a vague idea that the Comments on Ancestry are simply not exported onto the GEDCOM file. As Mike suggests, try looking for some distinctive text - but don't get your hopes up.

... a definite death fact dated 1879 and also a subsidiary indication of "before 1881" (derived from the census which shows his wife as a widow). FH chooses to use the "before 1881" date as the end of the lifespan, which is a nonsense. How can one indicate which dates are to be used? .... The quest...

Thanks Mike. I'm uncertain of the GEDCOM spec but does it allow Values against events ? FTM allows this but FH does not - I have no idea who is right or wrong and can't be bothered to fight... For what's it's worth - no, it doesn't. Values are for attributes, not events. Caveat - the only value acc...

Thanks for your efforts Nick. Interesting - and depressing to see how poor FTM's understanding of a simple specification like GEDCOM is. (Yes, it is simple to an IT person). The reason things like promoting CAUS to level 1 depress me is that the level numbering system in GEDCOM is there for a purpos...

Do not even bother trying to directly download a GEDCOM from Ancestry, its format is so wrong it's a waste. The only viable way of getting stuff out of Ancestry on a GEDCOM is via a sync with FTM. I have no idea if anyone else syncs with Ancestry. Remember please that these APIs are generated for a ...

... I think there are quite a few "holes" in the UKBMD for Liverpool. Coverage of the marriage indexes on LancashireBMD (the relevant part of UKBMD) can be found on http://www.lancashirebmd.org.uk/marrcov.php?region=LL The 1869 Fallon / Brannan marriage can be found in Ancestry.com's "Liverpool, En...

As for the Source Record, you need to think about how the citations get printed. If your standard name is, say, Pickstock, but the form in the source is Pigstock, then a citation directing someone to look for the marriage of Oscar Pickstock in St Helens's register of 1812 is pretty useless if the te...

... it does have difficulties for the Plugin. No doubt! :) Unlike Nick's case, where there are webpages or Report settings to work from, your idea would need a Plugin dialogue to select the Facts, and that is complicated by the unlimited number of user defined Custom Fact Sets and Custom Facts that...

As you might remember, I'm not a map user yet but it occurs to me that I might want to filter the events that go into a map so that I might have two maps (say ) for someone - one showing their residence type events and another showing several events associated with their military career. I can't ste...

... Thinking like a genealogist is what's required. Unless you actually want some software, of course! :) Trying to be slightly more serious ... Requirements need to come from thinking like a genealogist. However, you have no idea the number of times I have tried to explain to someone in various pl...

Thanks Mike. I'll probably configure most of them out since I regard the fact tab as being about the person, rather than a summary of the others. Still, I get the impression that I need to read the manual when it comes else I'll miss these tweaks.

... an error/feature which has been there since at least version 3 but which has not caused a problem until version 6. ... As you say, this feature has been there since goodness knows when - not sure why you say it's a problem in v6 (I'm still on v5). I found it ages ago - let's say that I have bap...

Thanks Lorna. Generally the partial name filter will be cumbersome for me as I prefix the names with a record-type description, so I'll need to type all of (say) "Marriage certificate" before getting to the specifics. However, method 2 sounds pretty useful as it seems to simply reverse the create / ...

Don't forget that in 4,5,or 6 you can copy and paste into the Auto citation and amend as required. Indeed but you still have to get something to copy in the first place.... The issue is selecting the source record - right now, in v5, it's dead easy. Select the source record I've just entered and yo...