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ASSOCIATIONS are another possible way forward. Don't record Tom as a son of Dick but create an ASSOCIATION between Tom and Dick - which must be added to both parties. The advantage of this is that it becomes easier to define exactly what the speculation is. For instance you might know from his marri...

BillH wrote:... I'll report this to Calico Pie. ...

I have to say I always thought there was a bit of variance deliberately built in - no carbon-based life-form would ever write a paragraph with a single name at the front and all pronouns following!

Adrian

I tried TCGR two years ago after many recommendations here and was deeply shocked to find the notes for events and attributes were printed only after all the basic sentences of date, place, , etc had been all printed. Total disconnection. Total illegibility. Clearly if you don't use notes or regard ...

As Helen says, not every provider of data has an API to allow access and without that, nothing happens. Louis Kessler related interesting experiences with providers on his blog about his Behold software. MyHeritage were very interested in working with him. Two other sites on the western side of the ...

... My understanding is unless you choose other wise no identifiable data is stored on the My Heritage servers it's just sent for matching purposes. ... Thanks Jane - that sounds good to me. The Dick Eastman blog that Jim links to, contains both the RootsMagic and Family Historian press releases. I...

Just in case anyone misunderstands - my concerns are not to do with MyHeritage (the data provider site, shall we say) but with Geni.com, the tree site. MyHeritage seems to be making a play for number 3 data provider in the USA behind Ancestry & FamilySearch. My impression is that operation does seem...

... the Republic of Ireland (ROI), i.e the correct name for the sovereign state that was at one time known as the Irish Free State; ... Except, the Wikipedia article I linked to has extensive quotes from Irish government sources making it clear that "Republic of Ireland" is not the correct name but...

So long as it has absolutely nothing to do with GENI.COM, which, last I heard, was part of the MyHeritage family, and has appalling reports.

For what it's worth, my army service records have one source record and a multimedia record per image file (I.e per page of the original). Normally I have one citation entry per fact referring to the source record but if I want to highlight a specific page then I might add an extra copy of the citat...

Thanks guys - apologies for being a bit tardy with my response but I was rather hoping someone else might have an opinion on what names to use for which bits of the island of Ireland post-1922. I rather think I'm going to use "Ireland" for all the island pre-1922, "Ireland" for south of the border p...

Late last night I hit an issue that I knew I would sooner or later. The basic question is: "What do we mean by Ireland?" Since the world has not come crashing round my ears (yet), I may not be far from "best practice" but I thought I'd ask you guys for your advice, not least because we're all workin...

My answer would be that it really depends on how confident you are that these people are (a) related and (b) are each a person in their own right - rather than umpteen entries from an electoral register, say, that might or might not represent the same person. In the case of one of my families from C...

... I can't edit the address there if I can't figure out which one is which. Today I have to handle it the way you suggest which is kind of a pain... I sympathise - I suspect that the writers and testers didn't twig that some of us use Place and Address in the way we do. It's an understandable mist...

My advice would be not to duplicate. Ever. So that means that the Place components would never go into the Address. Mike's scheme works for him because he's not using the Place bits for the same purpose as the Address bits, hence they don't duplicate. As for the business about not knowing which Holy...

FamilySearch backed out of GEDCOM years ago when they stopped developing it part way through the creation of v5.5.1. The LDS Church, I believe, saw no reason why they should be in the business of supporting software. (I sympathise with that view.) In effect they have contributed nothing to GEDCOM si...

The 1911 asked for "Children born alive ... who have died", in other words, it asked for children who should appear in birth (and death) registrations. However, in terms of finding those children, I think we should bear in mind that parents' interpretations might not match the exact requirements. I ...

I would certainly agree with the idea of a report / query that could be run to identify data that is encoded in "custom GEDCOM", a.k.a. extended-GEDCOM, i.e. standard GEDCOM in the sense that it uses the standard underscore notation, but otherwise lies outside GEDCOM 5.5. It would need to be runnabl...

It means "ditto" / "see above" - sort of. See Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibid. and especially note the variations about whether or not pages are shown. That's why I say "sort of ditto"

Not at all helpful for Devon and not really matching in period either, but perhaps useful for someone: Carl Rogerson put together a series of "Stage-Coach Timetables in 1830's Cheshire" - see http://www.carlscam.com/coach.htm . The warning here is that most people could not afford stage-coach travel...

I believe this is because it's an All-Relatives diagram, not a straight pedigree or descent chart. FH will have algorithms to draw such a chart, containing a whole series of criteria to follow. Looking at one I just fired-up, one family has just been shifted right (leaving a dotted box where the fat...

Be aware that Ancestry's GEDCOM format resembles the GEDCOM standard - just not particularly closely. You may therefore want to use the FH format file as the master and be prepared to throw away big chunks of the Ancestry file, on the basis that you think those people are up to date in FH and you st...

An address fact is a standard GEDCOM fact type: Sorry, that's not true. The ADDRESS_STRUCTURE is a standard chunk of GEDCOM - a standard tag . But it's not a standard fact about a person or family. It's a tag that is a subsidiary of any individual's or families EVENT_STRUCTURE or ATTRIBUTE_STRUCTUR...

Except, of course, it isn't a standard - only a draft, which I'm sure I've seen different, err, drafts of. The version I have is actually quite poor because it's missing lots of explanations about new, updated and removed tags, so whether the tag content is consistent is unknown. Having said all tha...

I also wonder how FS can take you to the record in FMP without extensive reprogramming to take account of the new interface?

It occurs to me that the answer to your first question is probably that the whole thing could be done as a descendancy tree showing the descendants of your starting male ancestor's father-in-law. Assuming I understood it right. His descendants include his daughter - who married your starting male an...