Family Historian User Group

Having used Ancestral Sources for some time to enter census records I have started to add BMD certificates. I have had no problems with Marriage and Death Certificates but when entering a Birth Certificate if either parent is the informant it records the entry as "Birth" rather than "Birth of Son" o...

Mike/Nick

Having had a play round with this I like it a lot - but then there is a lot to like about Ancestral Sources and its flexibility.

The only problem with AS is the more I learn the more tempted I am to scrap all my sources and start from scratch!

Best wishes




Mike S

Thank you both for your replies and sorry for the lateness of my own. An unexpected diversion has kept me away from family history for the last couple of weeks. I use Ancestral Sources for all new entries and I am in the process of redoing those I entered 'manually' prior to adopting AS. It was this...

The 1911 census includes the very useful information regarding the length of the marriage, number of children born to it, number surviving and number died. I am recording this information via ancestral sources but wondered if other users had any recommendations as to how they record it so that it ca...

My understanding is they were solely for the wars. Note though that their survival is patchy and that they take two forms; one which contains useful data (regimental number, unit, etc) and which is appendix to the main electoral register, the second which is merely an annotation 'A' on the main elec...