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Some good ideas came out of that question - I am grateful. Good to know that FH will be able to handle the load when I get all the sources in. I DO appreciate the automation of AS and even auto source citation, but I wonder if others also think like me, that so much automation loses the personal tou...

Following on from 15823|Sheer number of sources! ... On another topic, when you add place and date information to a fact, especially if the PLACE goes from town to county to England, how do you stop the clunkiness of the narrative reports which have one sentence per fact, repeating the place and date?

Using AS and Auto source citation, or even manually for all the information I am coming across,
generates sources on an industrial scale.
How many sources would be used for a typical tree?

Been away from FH for a while so this may have been covered already:
If I create facts like residence, occupation and anything else I find in the census record
why do I then also need a "census" fact, as seems to be implied in the KB?

Geez, that flushed out a lot of stuff!. All this talk of registers, images of indices, certificates, and church "certificates", not to mention transcriptions is confusing. Someone should write a BOOK. Ever since I started my tree about 18 mths ago I have been made to feel dumb, because I was trying ...

You are correct. A lot of the ads use the word "certificate" misleadingly. I do have a marriage certificate that must have come from the parish registers. I cannot duplicate the search on FMP, so it probably came from the time that I had an Ancestry subscription. But I need FMP for the UK newspapers...

When one is remote from the UK, and poor, one relies on the subscription sites for most of one's sources. As I understand it these sites provide the transcription of the BMD certificates, and usually also an image of the index page, which is of little value, and very occasionally, an image of the ce...

I take your points, but copyright is not an issue for me as my research is for purely personal use. I like the idea of the separate Baptism and Birth events, citing the same source. As you know, sometimes all we have to work with is the Baptism record. I have to admit that I am not using AS yet. I s...

Thanks a lot people. After thinking about it I have to agree with you. So I will maintain my existing methodology, with just a bit of tweaking. It is really 98% Method 1 and 2% Method 2, where appropriate. One other thing if I may: I have created images of many transcripts from FindMyPast, because I...

I set up my own naming conventions for media/sources based roughly on "Method 1". But now I am finding inconsistencies and problems. For instance should every document (media) mean a new source? I am torn between doing this or just having multiple media attached to each source, and then having to co...

Yes Mike, I have discovered AS.
It's just that I want to fully understand how the program works by doing things manually at first.

Thanks people. See my reply to Mike on the other posting about Electoral Registers. Using source TYPE and my Short title naming conventions does make it manageable to search the sources. As I said in my other post, my background in IT has left me with the habit of always looking for the most efficie...

Thanks Mike. I was tending to those recommendations myself, but it is good to have it confirmed. I have been using Source Type since I started, and my naming conventions make filtering fairly easy (using short and long titles option). I did not mean to sound so naive regarding Big Data! I have worke...

I gather from reading the forum that "Method 1" is the preferred way of handling sources in FH6, and that is the way I have been doing it since I converted from FTM. But even my small tree has soon acquired hundreds of sources, especially for Electoral Registers and Census's . Is there a limit in FH...

Electoral registers are a good source for tracing how our ancestors moved about, especially between census's and after the 1911 census. They provide the address/residence facts, but quite often the date is the only thing that changes from year to year. So in the properties I put the residence as say...

By linking to a VB exe I can do more than just read the GEDCOM file.
Also I wanted to use the exercise to learn about the underlying structure.
If I add any more posts on this subject it will be in the plugins thread.

I am hoping to reference some GEDCOM libraries from Visual Studio, or just parse the Gedcom manually.

It is fortunate that FH uses a GEDCOM compatible database and not something proprietary.

I think I will leverage my experience with VB.net and avoid learning Lua, by writing ONE plugin to call my VB executables, viz:

fhShellExecute("D:\\VBprojects\\mycode.exe", the gedcom file as parameter....)

Then as you suggest, run the plugin from the Tools menu.

Thanks to you both. See my reply to the Links to note records (13377) post.

Thanks very much to both of you, davidm_uk and tatewise. I have come from FTM, and I am trying desperately hard to convert my trees AND learn FH6 at the same time. Your suggestions should shorten my learning curve. I had considered something like you suggested re Notepad, but using Word where my not...

How does one create a link to a Note Record (aka shared note)? I have my own tips and tricks for Family Historian added to as I learn how to use it. Also I have a naming scheme for individuals and source records. I want them at my fingertips at all times without having to leave FH to Word. It would ...

I am used to creating scripts in such programs as Sony Vegas and Photoshop. Such scripts can always be assigned a user shortcut key for ease of use. I cannot find a way in Family Historian to do the same. Surely the efficacy of custom queries would be improved if you could run them without going Vie...