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Thanks, Mike. I had already tried precisely what you suggested, which is why I'm a little flummoxed. The screenshot below shows as an example my global sentence settings for marriage. This did remove the witness sentences from the ancestors' narratives as you would expect, but for some reason they s...

I am trying to to produce an abridged narrative ancestors report that contains only names and BMD dates and places. I do not want any other events/attributes included, nor any witness/informant role sentences. I do want the report to include child events/attributes (BMD dates and places plus spouse ...

I have a footnote format {Author:REVERSE} ({Year}). {Type}, <{Date}>. <Subject: {Subject}.> in a source template for private correspondence. That generates output like, for example: Doe, John ( 2022 ). Email to John Roe, 13 December. Subject: the birth of Jane Doe. Note the superfluous spacing aroun...

As a sort-of aside here, I personally find using quarter dates serves me well as flag to see at a quick glance whether or not the date is for a GRO registration of the event itself. Particularly important given that the registration may be recorded in the quarter after the event . Conversely, if I e...

The difference between Events and Attributes is that Attributes (like Occupation) have a value and Events don't. I sometimes struggle with this description of the difference between attributes and facts. I understand the general idea of a value/no-value distinction that divides them and thus how, f...

Can anyone determine what this chap in Gloucester is a foreman of?
It's from the 1881 census for Barton St Michael in Gloucester (RG11/2536, fol. 111, p. 37, Sch. 205, William BROWN)

Can anyone decipher this Caernarfonshire placename from a 1911 census schedule? It looks to me something like "Ebewe..."? Perhaps a poor spelling of "Ebbw [something]"?

Out of interest, I had a quck look at Stathclyde Uni's thoughts on referencing censuses as I think CP built some of their source templates around SU's notes on references in general. They (Strathclyde) really seem to want to throw the kitchen sink at it, suggesting it should include a note of the pl...

Annoyingly, on the first entry I paid £2.25 for a transcription and wondered why I couldn't see the census return itself - the £2.25 is just to see the transcription. I should have read the instructions correctly! I duly paid £3.15 to access the return itself. I then paid a further £3.15 for my oth...

I've been pondering the same issue myself. I read somewhere (sorry, I can't recall where, it was a while ago) that theoretically at least all that is needed to cite the right record in the 1921 census should be the piece number and household schedule number, e.g. RG15/13888 Sch. 288. However, like A...

I couldn't get =IsTrue( FindText( ToLower( FieldText( %INDI%,'INDI.FAMS[1]>_STAT' ) ),"married",1 ) > 0 ) ) to work, the program just reports an invalid expression. I therefore tried the following. It's less elegant, but it seemed to do the trick: =Bool(IsTrue(%INDI.FAMS>_STAT[ n ]% = "Unmarried Cou...

In short, for any n marriages indicated, you can't tell if there is an n+1 or n+... marriage missing. The spots are one of those things that, in an earlier form, originally served a different and now redundant purpose but persist because, thanks to the wonders of mission creep , they have evolved in...

Our second posts crossed in the mail...

With regard to the missing comma, I think that's just me being sloppy when I was editing my original post before submitting it. I had moved some text around a few times and must have lost the comma during the dicing and splicing without noticing. Sorry too about the confusion regard to the short tit...

Merry Christmas to all, and my thanks too to all who put their time into making this such a useful resource for all of us.

I have red, green, and black spot icons that display underneath the boxes on my diagrams to show if I have a B, M, or D certificate/parish record for the individual concerned. It helps give me a good at-a-glance overview of where I need to do a little more research. These icons are triggered by vari...

I had occasion to look up some Scottish birth certificates recently. They are a veritable mine of information and better than their English & Welsh counterparts by a very long way.

I was reading elsewhere with interest about the changes to marriage certificates that came in to effect from May this year in England and Wales: inclusion of both parents etc. I've been scouring the web trying to find an image/sample copy of one but to no avail. Has anyone else found anything they c...

There doesn't seem to be a a way to specify the overall order of events in a narrative report - do I have that right? I can see how I can add and remove whichever individual events/attritibutes I wish and amend their order relative to one another, and likewise for the family events/attribues. Howeve...

Thanks for the pointers, Mike, they got me on my way. I came up with the following, which seems to work on the records I'm looking at (This is for the 1841 column; the other columns are the same save for the census dates). You don't see any potential pitfalls in it that I may have overlooked, do you...

I haven't used queries very often thus far in FH, but they are useful and I want to get to grips with FH's expressions so I can better manipulate them. To that end, I have been playing around to see what I can achieve. I'm fully conversant with Excel, which is helpful in terms of giving me ideas abo...

If required I can assess the source cited for an event as questionable or unreliable, but is there a way to assess/flag a relationship in this way? I have the following situation: I have traced a certain line back to a marriage in 1762. I have not as yet found any evidence for the birthdate or birth...

Thanks for all the responses. There's lots there to consider and experiment with. Lorna's first response picked up on precisely my issue, it's not that I want the father (and his ancestors, of which there are several generations' worth) hidden from my tree - on the contrary, I want as many direct an...

Apologies if this too off-topic, please move the post as necessary. I think I may have found the marriage for one of my ancestors buried on a half-unindexed page on Ancestry, but I am having trouble deciphering the handwriting and would appreicate any input on how you read it. My ancestor was Matthe...

I have a person in my tree who was conceived as a result of a sexual assault. The father is a known individual, so there is a family record in my tree linking him to the child and the mother and its status is set to never married . In a narrative report I have generated (ancestors by generation) I g...