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Thanks to everyone who helped with the testing, made suggestions and reported errors. As always I am grateful for the support you all give to me. I've now released Ancestral Sources v7.7 to include the changes made during this testing process. I did also make a couple of minor changes since the last...

Ancestral Sources v7.7 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...

I was surprised and baffled - it's a one off and sorted so not worried. Out of curiousity, when adding a census would AS spot/warn that there were multiple births? If there were already two I'd have expected AS to add the citations to the first both times. Yes it would update the first one that it ...

The first of those just found me a duplicate birth event I didn't know about. The puzzle is that the citations show that both were created by Ancestral Sources. Easy to fix by Copy/Paste the citation from one birth to the other and delete the redundant birth. There is no way you can tell (without l...

I am struggling to get my laptop FH install activated. The hard-drive had melt down, I have installed a new HD and have a fresh install of Windows 7 Pro on it, like it had before. This is such an alarming statement. You should not be using Windows 7 (unless you never ever connect it to the Internet...

Thanks for the positive feedback, much appreciated :D The growing number of FH video's, and Derek Heritage's FH Zoom group emphesise the importance of video for the significant number of FH users who are primarily visual learners. Arguably, videos like the ones I've produced really suit a number of ...

Nowadays I just link an image to the source (letting AS deal with naming the file and media record for me) and don't worry about the fact that the image will already be linked to the other family. Disk storage is so plentiful... Over the past year or so I came up with a Media naming convention -- t...

The main difference is that the existing BMD records are for a specific set of people - individual (and spouse in a marriage) and their parents. The set of people on a will or grave are much more varied so there would need to be a way to add lots of different people to the entry so that's perhaps mo...

The latest source I regret not doing as a proper source is Probate. I just added the text as a note, which was fine. But now I have 60 I want to convert to sources and images, because I want to add to death events due to date and location. AS isn't going to help me here, hey-ho another slog. I do s...

Thanks Nick - nicely paced and clearly explained. There is definitely a place for this type of walk through of up to date features to get users started. Thank you - these things take ages to do as I inevitably make mistakes or stumble over words and have to start again. Also setting up the examples...

Yes the recommended method is to create a source for each household so one source for each household on the page. If the household goes over two pages then this would still be one source. I would probably add a comment to the source note to mention they were living next door to another family in my ...

I've added a new video to the Ancestral Sources YouTube channel called "All about sources in Family Historian". I started work on this a few months ago and have finally found time to finish it. It isn't really about Ancestral Sources, although I do refer to AS at various points and also show AS towa...

I wonder if cropping would be a better word to use.

Hi Kevin Hopefully you've watched the Ancestral Source introductory video and perhaps the one on using templated sources too in my You Tube channel ( https://www.youtube.com/@ancestralsources ) Ancestral Sources is all about 'source driven' recording. The idea is that you enter the details of your s...

RM9 includes a separate 64-bit version for the first time. I thought it was far from a trivial exercise to recompile a 32-bit app as 64-bit, but it would be good if FH did the same, as memory issues do arise from time to time with large projects and reports. I suspect it may depend on how the appli...

Try restarting the computer and then doing this before doing anything else.

I don't really see the ambiguity. The licensing works in the same way that most commercial licensing works. Multi-user means multi-computer. The guide also says "Each licence specifies a maximum number of permitted installations. ". So a 5 'multi-user licence' will cover 5 computers. The original po...

Nick, CP’s guide on this is very ambiguous, but I read it as £50 per multiuser license, not £50 per user :D I am pretty certain that isn't the case. I have dealt with a lot of multi-user licensing over my working life and there is no way it will be cheaper for a commercial licence for Family Histor...

Mark, why is that relevant here? £41.67 + VAT = £50 for 5-9 installations is still cheaper than £59.95 x 2 = £119.90 for a couple of 2-user licences. If VAT can be reclaimed then it applies to both prices and the comparison is still valid. A quick trawl through Google suggests that businesses outsi...

Well I have never found it confusing in the past, but I am confused by Adrian’s/Mike’s summary! I have never thought of the (generic) Short Title as “the name given to the source record in FH”. I have always thought of the full Title as the name of the record and the Short title as simply as an abb...

Thanks David.

There is quite a long list of changes: https://www.family-historian.co.uk/v7-updates

A census reference isn't a transcription though, you just need to type or paste that into the Reference ID field in AS and it will be recorded in the Publication Information field of the source if you use the default method 1 settings. There is an option to record it in the 'Where in Source' field i...

Thanks for the reports of issues with v7.6.12 - I've now released version 7.6.13 and updated the first post in this thread to reflect this. I was really pleased to get so many positive comments about the new Tree View I introduced in v7.6.12. I've made some changes to that and in particular when usi...

I think part of the problem is that the ASSOciated Persons GEDCOM structure is a very limited in terms of what it can do. You could link an individual to another and describe the link as 'Friend' but you would then need to create another 'Friend' association for the second person in the opposite dir...

Hi Peter Just to expand a little on what Mike has said. When you fill in the census grid in AS and then click the 'Auto' button, AS will generate a source text transcription of the data entered into the grid. This almost always then needs to be edited a little to make a more accurate transcription. ...