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For marriages Yes, both. I'm working on my Scottish family at the moment and using records from Scotland's People and then entering the data through Ancestral Sources which creates the Title in the format I'm after :D Census I also use AS but only use the Key Person in the Title. Each to their own ...

Can you click on it so it is highlighted and then press the Delete key (or choose Delete from the Edit menu)?

Lyn sent me a screenshot via email (which shows she is having trouble because the image path is over 260 characters long) and I've replied to her with an explanation as to how to solve this.

My next problem arose when I went to save the information plus the images I had imported from my private D: and saved them under a new folder of Marriages/Marriages and Banns. It would not save and transfer to My FH Project until I fixed the file paths. Unable to see any errors, I deleted the image...

I did modify the relationship lists for the default templates (in 7.7 I think) so maybe that might explain it. If you had modified those beforehand then then you won't have the new lists in the default versions

Probably a bug. I won't get a chance to investigate this for a while but will let you know when I have.

Thanks for letting me know.


Nick

To be honest the only reason I keep the 32 bit version is in case of linux/mac users using emulators and nowadays hardly anyone uses the 32 bit version. The answer is probably to make that clearer on the download page and really make users understand that the 32 bit version is not for them if they a...

You should have clicked Select All in the FHUG forum post above (to select the text) and then CTRL+C to copy and then pasted that into the template (CTRL+V). Try following the instructions above again. Presumably if I don't add Illegitimate into 'Other Information' it will print without it as usual?...

I've adapted the text on the template, Nick, but how do I find the relevant birth template, there doesn't appear to be 2 options just one Birth? When you click the Auto button just choose the Scotland birth certificate, assuming that's the one you've edited and see if it displays the contents of Ot...

That may well be the case Laura (and thanks for the suggestion :)) but why on earth wouldn't John have said that he was referring to the Scottish birth certificate and wanted the word to appear below the name? It's like I have to be a mind reader as well as a programmer! If this is the case John and...

If the word is required in the Auto Text transcript then simply type it in there. It is just as efficient as typing the same word into the Other Info: box and avoids customisation with the {OTHER} tag. Well yes I was going to make this point myself but would really like to understand where John is ...

Hi Nick, Currently there seems to be no place for Illegitimate births, the word can only be typed in on the eventual text document. Surely there could be a place for it in the initial page of AS Births which would carry it forward to the auto/text page without me typing it in? I seem to find quite ...

Ancestral Sources v7.8 has now been released and includes a few new features and a number of fixes for reported issues. Thanks to all the FHUG members who have helped me to test this. Ancestral Sources continues to support Family Historian 7, Family Historian 6 and earlier versions, although FH 7 is...

John your screen shot is just showing the Other Information box and obviously I know where that is! I wanted to know where you want that information to be displayed! So where would want the word illegitimate (as in your example) to appear? If, for example, you have chosen the 'Birth Certificate 1837...

Yes sometimes anti-virus does this kind of thing. It's quite frustrating - needless to say it doesn't contain any trojans or viruses and it does make me angry that these companies can make false accusations like this. On the other hand, anti-virus has a difficult job to do and are bound to make mist...

A fact can either be an Event or Attribute. Occupation is an Attribute so it gets the extra Value field. Create the Car fact like this: image.png For the Holiday it could probably just be an Event because you would use the Place field to record the holiday destination and wouldn't necessarily need t...

Hi Peter

From what you're saying I'm assuming you're just using generic sources and setting up the short and long titles in the AS Options screen. Just put the {REF} keyword into the title template (it's actually there in the default title templates):
Cheers

Nick

Years ago when I added support for baptism and birth sources to AS and allowed new individual and parents to be entered on the main screen I just found it so time-consuming and complex working through the various scenarios when coding it that I just couldn't face dealing with this for Marriages too ...

If you've added Individual A and Spouse B to a marriage and then realised you don't have parents for one (or both) of them and they are referred to in the marriage entry. Here's how you would add parents to Individual A: 1) Select Individual A on the right of the screen (the quick way to do this is ...

Personally I tend to just link another copy of the image because disk space isn't an issue nowadays and it does no harm to have it in the file twice and it's a bit of a faff to rename the image afterwards to reflect it being part of two sources (because of the naming scheme I use). However, you can ...

As Rick has pointed out, I've now released a new version of Ancestral Sources v7.8.0 which incorporates the changes that have been tested in this thread. It is available in the Knowledge Base here: https://fhug.org.uk/kb/link/ancestral-sources/ . This v.7.7.8 beta testing phase has now ended. I've n...

Am I correct in understanding then that to get the blue links that appear on people's names in a Census transcript, it needs to be created using Ancestral Sources, and that it won't work using just FH? Hi Rosemary Ancestral Sources doesn't do anything that couldn't be done manually in Family Histor...

There isn't a concept of a shared event in Family Historian: There are individual events which can have witnesses. But witness roles aren't really suitable for census records - witness roles in FH can't have ages recorded. All members of a census record were equal participants in the record, whereas...

The screenshot indicates this person doesn't have any parents recorded yet in your file. If you select the deceased person in Ancestral Sources and they don't have a parent recorded then you can then choose the 'Add Parents...' link on the right and add their parents. Then add the individual to the ...

Hi Lyn I use the Essentials collection templates. I clone a copy of the templates, rename it and adjust if required . I use the Census Return template and the Directory/List template for Electoral Rolls, passenger lists etc. Hi Ruth I think Lyn is asking about Ancestral Sources census templates (wh...