Family Historian User Group

My first reaction is that if you know there should only be one Family Historian Projects folder why are there several? Secondly, the OneDrive folder contents are different on the Laptop compared to the Desktop so OneDrive is not syncing! Therefore, several issues need to be resolved and I'm not sur...

I realise that costs may be a little different because you live in Dublin, but the cost of OneDrive in the UK is remarkably good value. Currently on Amazon, Microsoft 365 is £48 for a single user or £67 for a family of up to 6 for a year and this gives a massive 1TB (1000 Gig) per person of OneDrive...

Hi, I'm using AS for census entries based on method 1. Although I always link media to sources, I don't like to use the "include source media" checkbox in the media screen for individual facts. I prefer to link the images directly to the facts. When I enter a census record using AS, each person get...

I'm not sure what you're referring to. Can you be more specific.

Is it not possible to edit the column headings when editing a census template? For the 1931 Canada census, I copied the 1921 template and pasted to a new one, thinking that it would be mostly the same and I could just edit the headings and add or delete a column where necessary. I found I couldn't ...

I've released a new version to fix the two problems reported by John above. I've also added some keyboard shortcuts that have been requested by another user. I've updated the first post in this thread to refer to the new version. New Features in v7.7.7 (Beta Test) Tab pages, for all source types exc...

Sorry Nick, Another hiccup introduced with 7.7.6 If census persons are entered using the new ""Tree" method, then the {KEYPERSON} keyword used in the census title does not work. Everything is as expected If the Keyperson is added using the old method (Everyone elsoe can then be added by the "Tree" ...

When you use the option to Add Citation and 'Cite Existing Source...', you can then right-click on sources and select 'Add to Bookmarks'. Clicking the red bookmark button at the top will then only show the bookmarked sources.

Hi Nick, A bug seems to have crept in on latest version. (7.7.6) I have only tested Census 1939 Register so far, but each of the column headings has had "vbCrLf " appended to it Regards John Morrison Thanks for reporting that John, it will be fixed in the next version. It only appears if the 'Censu...

I've released a new version to fix the problem reported by Mike above. I've updated the first post in this thread to point to the new version. New Features in v7.7.6 (Beta Test) Fixed a silly error that had crept in to 7.7.5 and effectively made AS get Birth and Death records mixed up. Apologies for...

Hello Nick Testing Deaths today after the update using auto text it adds a marriage date & a marriage place to the record. Also in births it asks for an informant name. Is there anyway of turning this off in options? Thank you Mike Sorry about that Mike, I made a silly mistake in v7.7.5 that caused...

Looks good so far - I've imported my diacritics from FH successfully :) Dare I mention that the 1931 Canada census will be released this Thursday? I'm not sure how easy it is to add that year in the drop-down menu. Thanks :) Is anyone reading this who has created an AS Census Template for the 1931 ...

I've now released a new test version of Ancestral Sources v7.7.5 and updated the first post in this thread accordingly. Thanks for your continued support in helping to test this version before I release it. New Features in v7.7.5 (Beta Test) There is now a toolbar button that allows the 'Key Person'...

On Scottish birth and death certificates, the address where the person was born or died initially is recorded on the 1st page and then recorded again on the 2nd page for their residence, as well as the mother and father in the case of a birth and in the majority of cases the address is the same. Is...

This make some sense as well, although it does not use the AUTH, PUBL tags for citation completeness. It holds closer to my understanding of GEDCOM. Obviously, future GEDCOM needs more normalization, separating out both "Facts" and Citation Detail. I not sure if I propose that to "The Committee" I'...

For comparison my Splitter source might look like this (I format the source text differently nowadays - this is an old one). It has a title, source text and a link to an image. 0 @S429@ SOUR 1 TITL Census 1861 Newton Kyme, Yorkshire 3541/3b (Robert Morley) 1 TEXT Name Related Age Occupation Birth P...

For comparison my Splitter source might look like this (I format the source text differently nowadays - this is an old one). It has a title, source text and a link to an image. 0 @S429@ SOUR 1 TITL Census 1861 Newton Kyme, Yorkshire 3541/3b (Robert Morley) 1 TEXT Name Related Age Occupation Birth Pl...

Adrian The two contrasting GEDCOMs are very useful to illustrate the difference (to those who are interested in the way the data is stored), but I think it might help if the second example also used the census fact rather than a residence and the same date. If I remember correctly Adrian you use a R...

Hi Peter In the next beta test version of AS there will be a facility to select the Key Person for a census entry - thanks for this suggestion. Thanks also for pointing out that the KEYPERSON.CUSTOMID should return nothing, rather than that the name of the individual if they are not in the file. Thi...

On a more radical note, I could be tempted to replace all references to Method 1 and Method 2 with 'Splitting' and 'Lumping' -- partly because I can never remember which is which :) and 'Splitting' and 'Lumping' are more obvious descriptors. (Not in the Ancestral Sources articles, of course, where ...

I currently have 48,107 sources, and I would estimate that all bar 107ish were created using AS. I still have well over 15000 census sources that need converting to Rich text tables On top of that there are many 1000's of citations to redo from when I used method 2 style recording (With or without ...

Just for the fun of it - have you created a lot of sources with AS? I'd love to know how many sources you can estimate that AS has generated for you (include my previous Gedcom Census in the count if applicable). You can see how many sources you have in Family Historian by going to File->File Statis...

Ok, so again I've stepped into an area that I should not have! My bad. I'll limit my interaction to my own questions regarding FH. I still don't understand Method 1 vs Method 2 but I guess it does not mater any more! See if this video that I put together few months ago helps. It aims to explain Sou...

Hi Peter I don't use KEYPERSON for this reason and that's why I've always used the 'Other Info' field to record who the key person is in the entry and I have that in the title template. But admittedly that wouldn't work as well for you as you have the custom ID in there too and I guess for the major...

Thanks Mike, yes they might do. Definitely worth having a look at the logs - under tools->View Log files. If you've created a lot of entries since then, it may take a while to click back to the entries in question. You could email the log file to me if you wish (nick at ancestralsources dot com) and...