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Trying to interpret the numbers, the first two digits appear to be the year of probate or administration, and from comparing entries, the next two digits might indicate which probate office was involved - though you get that from the text anyway. As has already been said, you'd probably need to get ...

Have a look at fhugdownloads:contents:fact_set_to_do_lists|> Fact Set ~ To Do Lists and how_to:create_work_in_progress_or_research_to_do_lists|> Create Work In Progress or Research To Do Lists I seem to remember finding parts of this a bit tricky to get my head round to begin with, but I got there i...

Some people find it useful to export a GEDCOM file from Family Historian and view it with an app on a tablet or smartphone.

There's a list of some of these at fhugdownloads:apps|> Downloads and Links ~ Apps

Does the topic 15823|Sheer number of sources! have anything useful? Several of us put forward our thoughts on shortening the list of sources in reports, and as usual there was a range of opinions covering both Method 1 and Method 2. Most of us probably ended up just as convinced as before that we we...

To a large extent it's a matter of practice. With wills of this period the style and form of letters was fairly consistent, and there are also a lot of standard (and usually repetitive) legal phrases, so once you get used to these it's not too much of a challenge. You can get books on palaeography, ...

If the sources are from only a handful of Method 2 Source records, then the technique you proposed earlier might help, where one Citation holds several Where within Source references, or less rigorously literally says something like " See the Marriage & Death Certificates of all his children. " Tha...

ColeValleyGirl wrote:In that circumstance I'd consider whether the extra 'occupation' facts were needed at all.

Sorry - not sure what you mean here. I do have just the one occupation fact, with address attached, and a date range for it. The question is how to attach the 30-40 register entries that support it.

One further thought about the idea of combining sources/citations into a single item: This is admittedly a rather extreme example, but one of my ancestors worked as a tailor for about 55 years in the same place. In that time he and his wife had 20 children; 12 married, and 11 died and were buried. I...

Arthurk, you make a good point that the global name of the document should appear in the Sources list. So, I have been experimenting with the Ibid. scenario and it does not work very well for me. It seems that Ibid. only appears in the Sources list if the Citations for the same Method 2 source are ...

As per my examples, I don't include the global name of the document as it appears in the Report Sources list. This is where the Source record long Title and Short Title can be very useful. The long Title can include such as " Kildwick Parish Registers " and the Short Title just " Baptism of... ". T...

The use of Ibid. is a necessity not an advantage with Method 2 to avoid repeating the 'lumped' Source Title . It actually adds the repetitive Ibid. prefix that is unnecessary with 'splitter' Method 1 , because each Source Title is unique. Compare your Sources list with my Sources list that does NOT...

Thanks for your further thoughts on this, Mike. Logically you are of course correct that each document needs to be quoted, and in theory the number of items in the source list will correspond to the number of documents. However... Method 2 sourcing allows for the use of Ibid. , which reduces the amo...

From memory you have to have a certificate and these cost anything from £10 per annum (1st year price rising to £24) for individuals or £24 rising to £55. These are from a low-end provider. To get certificates from a top provider can cost £100s or even more, per year! Having changed my web hosting ...

Unless I am mistaken, arthurk has disabled many of the tick options in the Report > Options > Sources tab. The top three options immediately under Show Source Citations are probably ticked. Other than those, it looks like only Title and Where within Source are ticked. With those settings my Method ...

I've no doubt FH can cope very well with a large number of Method 1 (split) sources, but I still hesitate to convert my Method 2 (lumped) sources, largely because of the amount of repetition it would create in reports. This is a screenshot of the sources in an Individual Summary Report for a chap I ...

Moreover, images can be attached to Sources but not Citations. Actually media can be attached to citations, and the Show Media icon in the yellow Source Pane allows you to see, add or edit either Citation Media or Source Media. One of the recent FH upgrades introduced the improved Show Media pane t...

You will find numerous users, who having migrated into FH are reworking some of their Source Citations from Method 2 to Method 1 for all the reasons I have given; arthurk is just one. I don't know about other people, but actually I'm not reworking my sources into Method 1, largely because my way of...

Hi Stephen I suspect you may receive more technical advice, but I think I do more source lumping than many others, and I do have quite a lot of sympathy with that approach. However, it's necessary to be clear about exactly what belongs where. BMD certificates is actually one area where I change to s...

I'm also on Windows 7 64 bit, and my list of updates is exactly the same as Lorna's, apart from slight date differences. I haven't run FH for a few days, but this thread has prompted me to check and it seems to be OK. As I always review Windows updates before installing them, I noticed that this mon...

Another approach when a census search is troublesome is to use the advanced search function in the National Archives' Discovery catalogue - http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/advanced-search By entering the place name in one of the text boxes at the top, the census reference (in this case HO10...

Two options:

1. In the View menu select Record Links... and then open up each record in turn to find where the relevant place is.

2. Use the Where Used Record Links plugin (it works like a query) for a list showing the exact fields.

I can't find anywhere on their website that says that they will send another email when the order is ready for download? It's on this page at Q20: https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/PDF_most_customers_want_to_know.asp (When I went to get the link just now, the page was very slow to loa...

Version 1.0.4 looking good here - thank you!

Should the (m.1900) etc, that follows spouse names match their colour & bold , or be black (or green ) & unbold? My preference is black & unbold to match the events shown on separate lines in the Full/Brief BMD Events modes. I've just had a look at this, and I agree that for consistency it would ma...

Arthur, if you do decide to adjust your Census dates to the Sundays , then follow the advice in 15153|Adding census dates day and month and use the Ancestral Sources 'Census Date Check' technique that is far more efficient than the Search and Replace Plugin in this special case. If I used Ancestral...