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by GrahamJWood
02 Aug 2017 10:56
Forum: Importing
Topic: Import ged from Ancestry to FH, general advice needed
Replies: 35
Views: 24516

Re: Import ged from Ancestry to FH, general advice needed

Thanks Jane & Mike, I have now read the KB, I am using 6.2 and have now updated my profile. I will start working through the advice.
by GrahamJWood
01 Aug 2017 16:17
Forum: Importing
Topic: Import ged from Ancestry to FH, general advice needed
Replies: 35
Views: 24516

Import ged from Ancestry to FH, general advice needed

Due to a recent family marriage I have a family tree on Ancestry which I would ultimately like to merge with my much larger tree in Family Historian, the export from Ancestry produces a 42000 line ged file . An initial look at the Gedcom file in FH showed me that this was not going to be straight fo...
by GrahamJWood
16 Oct 2013 09:15
Forum: Ancestral Sources
Topic: Saving Existing Marriage Citations
Replies: 6
Views: 4759

Re: Saving Existing Marriage Citations

I have just tripped over the same issue in version 3.2.3. Any new information on when the updated version (which would make things much easier) will be out? I may have several sources for the same marriage event for example: FreeBMD index entry, FamilySearch index entry, scan of a certified copy of ...
by GrahamJWood
10 Jan 2013 13:45
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Address Format
Replies: 8
Views: 5594

Address Format

Are there any conventions about when to use the place field, and when to use address ? I have tended to use the address for the house number and street, and use place for village, town county and country. But having recently swiched to version 5 this may cause a lack of detailed geo-positioning usin...
by GrahamJWood
28 Jan 2008 19:23
Forum: Importing
Topic: Migration from Brother's Keeper
Replies: 4
Views: 3538

Migration from Brother's Keeper

I am just evaluating moving from Brother's Keeper to FH. I have an existing database of 3000+ indviduals, many of which are sourced from census records, FreeBMD etc + collaborations with other researchers. Does anybody have suggestions on how to rationalise the data to take advantage of FH features....