Family Historian User Group

Oh dear David - you have my sympathy - and I only trained as a mathematician!

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"value nil whose main property is to be different from any other value" - personally I thought any value would be different from any other value!

Sorry Jane....
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My contribution for the parish register entry: This is primary evidence for the burial and - unless it quotes a death date, it's only indirect evidence for the death. (I usually use the burial date to estimate a death date.) Since FH doesn't have any coding for "indirect" evidence, I enter it as sec...

... Not all microfilms or digital images are equal. The filming / imaging can be done poorly, leaving parts of the image illegible that might be clear on other supposedly equivalent images ... I'm careful to record exactly which image it was I used -- which usually means which website or archive pr...

Yes, people like myself can get hours of innocent fun and amusement tangling ourselves up in questions like these... Won't get any work done but... I'll try to give you a couple of principles: If you have two or more copies of the same source, you only need record one; To decide which one, use the o...

Taking what Nick has written - in 99.999% of cases, I would only ever have one birth event (with multiple sources) and one death event (with multiple sources). The GEDCOM specification (working from possibly fallible memory) suggests that 2 or more birth events should be interpreted as alternatives....

I would keep all - for instance, if I'm trying to work out when and where someone was born, 4 censuses might give me 4 similar dates and places. All 4 would go into the final conclusion, which might match none of the censuses.... Keeping all is particularly true with indirect evidence. As indicated ...

tatewise wrote:... Choose the same folder as your Project Backups and then everything is together ...

Hmm - while I wasn't being totally serious, nor was I being totally flippant - putting it in with the Project Backups does sound a useful tip. Thanks for that.

... the Title and Short Title fields are both displayed with the default settings. You don't need to customise the Property box. Oh - you may well be right. I've chopped and changed things so often it's tricky to remember what's mine and what's original. And the last thing I want to do is press a r...

.... it is going to be clogging up my source list .... Putting my tongue in my cheek - do you regard the relatives that you documented last year as "clogging up" your list of individuals? Slightly more helpfully - to navigate your way round the resulting list of sources, you need to think carefully...

Weird - maybe we now know the real name of Doctor Who? John Ware? If I understand the process, that entry should have been the only one submitted in that quarter by the church. I'm tempted to wonder if the clerk was so late submitting the previous quarter (with one entry again?) that it was May alre...

... my grandfather's name was Thomas Jones Greenough. ... Oh, now that's encouraging. It occurs to me that if you were going to concoct a father's name to avoid the then stigma of illegitimacy, then you'd be remarkably stupid to draw attention to things by giving a created father a different surnam...

I would be very wary, Moppie, of putting James Jones into your tree as the father. It is not unknown for people getting to claim someone as their father when they weren't - the reason, of course, was to avoid the stigma of illegitimacy. For instance, my GG GF, James Maddocks, put his father down on ...

Slightly tongue in cheek, but also not .... It does seem to me that map coordinates are in danger of being a solution looking for a problem. It depends on what you want to use them for. If you simply want to put a dot on a map, then they are fine. The opportunity to record positions of graves in a ...

Keep them separate. If you enter them as one, with warnings in notes, you will, if your memory is anything like mine, forget the warning-notes. if you enter them as two, you can use the "All" tab to enter an association saying that these are potentially the same person. Unfortunately, you need to en...

I seem to have been inconsistent on this. For one 3G GF I created a custom attribute "Member of the " with a sentence "{date} {individual} was a member of <the {value}>< {place}>." The value of the attribute is the name of the body. The date is that of admission to the body. The note for the attribu...

Being cynical, my suggested reason is incompetent indexing by FS. The only thing, I'm, afraid, is to consult the original PRs. Now, having said that, take this example: Name: William Dearmer Burial Date: 30 Apr 1837 Burial Place: Great Wymondley, Hertford, England Death Place: Ayott-St. Peter, Hertf...

Multiple value items generally show something like %INDI.NAME[2+]:FULL% OK, that's for name, not occupations, but the crucial bit is that [2+] . This says, show "occurrence two upwards". So the multiple occurrences of occupation probably have [1+] . If you remove the whole thing in square brackets (...

Named lists are much simpler than the Custom Attribute approach - but perhaps less powerful / sophisticated. I did initially use a named List for each Record Office (or on-line database) and just added the individual to the list for the relevant RO. Against that person in the list, I recorded a note...

On http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/help/about19011911census.html it says, "The basic topographical divisions for the census are: County; District Electoral Division; Townland or Street. ... The returns are arranged in clusters by townland/street within district electoral division within county...

Mocky wrote:Everything is recorded exactly but not linked as yet

Sorry - what do you mean when you say, "linked"? (Or rather, not linked!)

Adrian

All you need to do is marry John and Sarah. If John's mother is recorded correctly and if Sarah's mother is also recorded correctly - and if the two mothers are correctly recorded as sisters, then that's all that is needed. You don't need to "link this marriage to the two families" - you just need t...

Caveat: I don't use Ancestral Sources. But, my comments to add to those above are: According to "best practice", the basic idea for the source record and other details in a case like this (an image of the original), is to cite / describe it, as if it is the original, but adding in the on-line detail...

I'm not familiar with Jane's video, so this may be no help whatsoever, but... I have the impression that one of your issues is - what to do with the data. If I'm right, then it's important to understand that you don't have to record absolutely everything, everywhere. Just what you think is useful. T...

I suspect that the ones that FTA are objecting to, have been set up as Custom Attributes . To check this, go to Tools/Work With Facts Sets ... and see what Type your custom facts are. If they are Attributes, then I suspect that explains it. It's not at all obvious but Custom Events and Custom Attrib...

... [If] a large chunk of historical background information ... is in the Text field of a Source record it looks out of place in the Sources section, which many people regard as purely for reference ... Indeed. I'd go further than that and say it is purely for reference about the source materials. ...