Family Historian User Group

Peter, I think the answer is "no" - if I have understood you correctly. Your main FH work is on your desktop, but you like to copy this to your laptop and view it (but not edit it) on your laptop. You do this by using the FH backup command - which creates a zip file What this zip file contains depen...

Presumably (famous first words!) it would be a relatively simple enhancement to take some of the code use for place standardisation and use the functionality to allow occupation standardisation? Any interest? Or do we just put the transcription in the "text from source" and our own cleaned up if not...

I have often wondered about how to standardise occupations: Apprentice Draper Draper's Apprentice Draper Are probably relatively easy; 1 & 2 are the same, but 3 is different. But sometimes we don't have enough knowledge to do the standarising. I have just come across (in the Syllabus to Else Churchi...

In case others have problems - often when you get flustered, check that not only are you installing the licence details in the version order requested, but that you are also inputting the licence name and the registration key in the right order! A while ago when I was doing a reinstallation I had th...

I think it's time to reach for the wine bottle! Lol :lol: Well if you're opening a bottle consider putting a flavour of Linux on your Windows 7 machine (sharing a data partition between the two OSs) and run fh under Wine!* Linking Linux to OneDrive is probably documented somewhere on the net! Alter...

"Residence" tends to indicate a person's habitual home "Census" is where you happen to be on Census night (A distinction that I think Ancestry ignores) But that said I tend not to bother with a separate Residence fact for each census record - but if someone is recorded as a Visitor in a Census I put...

When I started, I decided to name sources like this below Marriage 1908 12 03 William McGillivray - Christina Bethune M Cert 1897 07 15 John Clunie - Anne McDonald Imm 1917 04 02 Howard G Barrie This keeps similar sources together, and sorts by date. However I've also used the same method for namin...

This all assumes you are using Method 1 'splitter' Source Citations. If you go the other way (what people call "lumpers") the chain of evidence appears more stretched because the citation takes a bigger role and (I think) your source can take on a more useful role. If you guide yourself with the de...

Following Adrian's post I was promoted to recall that you could also apply to the actual registration district for the certificate, so I applied to Manchester and ended up having an interesting call from them today. I was looking for Eileen Joyson. GRO could not find the certificate for the entry in...

2019-09-30.png I am guessing this was how FH developers perceived the use of the Type field as this is the sources in the FH Sample Project. Consistency is the war cry from FH, there doesn't seem to be an exact science to what goes where as long as you put the same things in the same fields. Obviou...

Do you have to have multiple 'lumped' Source records with the same Title but different Type definitions? Not quite. As per a previous post if the answer to "Where did I get the information" is different, it is a different source . The "types", as I use them (in my own little world apparently) is a ...

Similarly, there is only one 'lumped' Parish record, so how does that accommodate all the Types listed near the end? This forces me to consider hard "Where did I get the information from?" - does the Source Title adequately answer that question. The types I have listed at the end are different "Whe...

Do you have to have multiple 'lumped' Source records with the same Title but different Type definitions? The illustration at the top of the first post came from a relatively new project. My sources have always been the answer to "Where did you find this 'fact'". In the example, I have just said "18...

I have just added a separate post about use of the Source Type Field - seeing the discussion as possibly wider than "Grave stones"!

A number of posts recently has got me questioning how we can use the Type field on Source Records. I think I have assumed a purpose quite different to what others have assumed! Screenshot from 2019-09-30 11-03-05.png You will observe from the above screenshot that I am a "lumper" - which may be pert...

I normally name my sources 'Death: <name> d<year>' but realised if I used this for the grave stone I could end up with two sources with the same name although different Type. Definitely know it is the right graves David, as I was at all of the funerals. By no proof of death I meant no certs. I name...

If you are convinced that it is the gravestone (rather than memorial etc.) of the specific relative, I would tend to think that is sufficient proof of death! I would enter a burial fact - if necessary with date unknown (I am never sure of the utility of writing "aft DoD"). As to source, as a "lumper...

You will probably get many contrasting answers to this question! If you have managed a successful import and you have a lot of media images you may want to let things lie! Ideally your media files have all ended up in the media subdirectory of the relevant project folder which is the best place to p...

Quick question but not sure how to ask it. If I use a birth certificate as a source with image for someone (child) and marked them as private and living and then also use the source for someone else (parent) who is now dead and not private. Would the image show up if I export a Gedcom with images a...

The reason I ran the test is that my old Windows 7 computer to which I am much attached and which cant be upgraded to W10 has been struggling when Word is in use along with fh and my browser. I found my old Windows 7 (64bit) machine could struggle but upping the RAM to 4G and then to 8G solved the ...

I'm signed up to it, but had not received very much for a while until about a couple of weeks ago when a few started to trickle in.

I just assumed the mailing list had gone very quiet.

Yes. ... If you take a standard "Fact" query and add the Source field as a Parameter, you can get a list of all facts that use a specified source (so you might get some duplication of records if for instance a source supports more than one fact for an individual - A Baptism record may support both a...

Hopefully I'm making sense here, but don't know enough about the database schema to be able to create the query I need so that I can see the records I haven't done yet, etc.? I think you are - the GEDCOM schema is of a tree type. In the GEDCOM file there are a number of trees - essentially one for ...

Can't you double click on the relevant "Source Where Within Source" cell in the query output to get taken to the relevant properties box and fact?

If you do a "Fact" Query (not a "Source" query) and in the "Columns" tab of the Query Setup, you select the "Where within Source" field (which is a sub field under "Source" in the tree on the left). Move the "Where within Source" field up the list of fields so that when you run the results the "Wher...