Family Historian User Group

I received the Ontario Genealogical Society's new e-Newsletter (the Weekly Update, dated January 20, 2018) with news of the following feature: A new Search Feature has been added this week that lets you expand your family tree quicker than ever. Now, when you click 'add to tree' on any record, it wi...

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But I know they were married. (They were at least a couple recognized by all descendants and by the bards that told their tales.) I'm going to put on my linguist's hat here and talk about data source. One of my college professors has published papers on a family of languages spoken by people in the...

Just to clarify what others have already posted -- The system which runs the RootsWeb mailing lists is apparently still working for some lists. I am still getting mail from the lists I belong to, including FHU-L, for which I received some messages yesterday. However, since the main site is down, we ...

Thanks for the pointer to this article! I wouldn't have wanted to miss this quote by Tamura: https://www.tamurajones.net/DeliberatelyLimitedGenealogyPrograms.xhtml You should use real genealogy software that lets you record any marriage. You should actively avoid bigoted genealogy software. Genealog...

I had a look at the original question on Stack Exchange and don't think it has been well thought through. I agree, and I feel that way about many of the questions we get on G&FH.SE. :( As at September 2017, WikiTree does not directly Import GEDCOMs. GEDCOM uploads have to be run through an online c...

Late to the party, but my answer to this question is always "it depends". We all have different research needs, and no site (no matter how wonderful it is) will do you any good if the records you need to look at are not on the site. When I first started, other people told me that they didn't keep co...

I have very little in the way of paper documents, except for what was passed down to me in the family, so for the most part, this reply is talking about the folder arrangement for the digital folders on my computer, both for the scans we made of our own family papers, and the images downloaded from ...

Thanks, Mike and Colin! I need to spend more time working on queries -- I understand the basic principles, but I don't create new queries very often, so the information doesn't 'stick' very well. So each time I want to make my own custom query, I feel as if I am starting all over. Now that I am maki...

Apologies for the confusing topic subject but I didn't know how else to phrase it. I'll use as my example for this question Mike's excellent Lookup Missing Census Facts . Plugins which look for missing facts are wonderful, but sometimes I need the opposite function -- a list of what census records t...

From time to time, I like to use Louis Kessler's Behold to produce an Everything Report so I can see my database in human-readable form. Errors I've made in data entry tend to pop out that way. I also have FTAnalyzer. For missing data, I use Mike's plugins for Family Historian, plus Underwood Innova...

Rather than use the custom tab that Mike is describing, I have a different approach. When a new database comes online, or I start a new line of inquiry, I create a Named List for it and add to the list the names of the individuals I want to search for. As I find them in the database, I take them out...

My main software is Family Historian, but I like to have copies of other programs in case I need to help someone else out or open a file from other software. I've been following some of the FTM user groups on Facebook, and I can second what David Potter has just said -- the FTM2017 has been ugly. Re...

For reference purposes, here are two articles that I've found useful: X-DNA INHERITANCE CHARTS on Genealogy Junkie: http://www.genealogyjunkie.net/x-dna-inheritance-charts.html X-DNA's helpful inheritance patterns on Louise Coakley's website: http://www.genie1.com.au/blog/63-x-dna Both have bibliogr...

This is an excellent example of why it's important to examine records both individually and as a group.

David --

As you use different techniques within FH, I'd love to hear how everything works for you, since I'm still working on my own workflow.

Cheers,

Jan

John Cardinal suggested ensuring that everything had a date (which I won't do for events I don't have evidence of date for), and modifying dates to force the correct order (ditto I won't do this). I hate doing that, too. If I'm forced to do it, I mark the date as estimated and create a source note ...

Mike Tate's post here may also be of interest: Associated Person feature . Jim, regarding your comment about connecting Individuals by Sources are you aware of the View > Record Links command? Just select the connecting Source record and use the command to list all associated records. For more detai...

Also from the FAQ: http://clooz.com/support/frequently-asked-questions/ Will I be able to export data to my family tree program? Yes, Clooz supports the export of people, their events, the source, associated media files, and source citations as related to a single Clooz document in various ways: Dir...

Ah -- I found the explanation From the Frequently Asked Questions: http://clooz.com/support/frequently-asked-questions/ I imported people and sources into Clooz. Why are they not connected? When you import people and/or sources into Clooz using the Data Transfer Manager, you are simply importing the...

Ah -- you've run into the same problem I did. I'm just a customer, not the developer, so keep that in mind as you read this. I suspect that the function to import your data into Clooz is intended just to pre-fill Clooz with the people in your database --- and perhaps just the top-level data of the s...

You're welcome! I'd love to hear what you think of it.

Since the last time I posted here, I've been using Scrivener as a research notebook, and it's working out pretty well. I was doing something where I wanted an index card program, and suddenly I said -- oh, wait a minute, I have one. I haven't begun to learn all the bells and whistles, but who cares?...

When I posted my earlier reply, I forgot all about Clooz. https://clooz.com/ The Composite View is an alternate display format to the standard table-like grid. It presents documents and people in a tree-like structure allowing the researcher to examine possible relationships between the people in a ...

I don't know of any software tools which are specifically set up to do FAN research. Some of the software I use and what I use it for: linking individuals in Family Historian using the Association Persons feature Notes in Family Historian to keep track of which individuals are listed together in sou...