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and some screenshots at Dick Eastman's blog: - https://blog.eogn.com/2019/11/06/help- ... historian/

Mike: thanks as always for your prompt and helpful reply. I'd not previously noticed the Families tab so that's most interesting. You are indeed a FHUG Megastar!

After a pleasant hour of entering ancestor census records with Ancestral Sources, I seem to have ended up with an ancestor, William Chandler, with a spouse Louisa Newton and a child, George. A second spouse tab for William contains another Louisa Newton with William and Louisa having 12 children, (n...

Thanks all. I revisited the ancestralsources:ancestral_sources_tutorial_entering_census_facts|> Ancestral Sources Tutorial ~ Enter Census Facts and see how Rupert Childs' wife, listed in the census as Janet Childs was actually entered under her maiden name of Janet Hodges. The suggestions to enter h...

A couple of questions on Ancestral Sources, 1. When entering a family group, is it best practise to enter the wife's name as per census (generally her husband's surname) or, as I believe would be preferable, her maiden name where known. If not known, or not certain, should it be left blank or marked...

Thank you Jan. Mike Hait's blogs look interesting and I'll work through them in more detail later. I take your point that much of what's in Evidence! is also in the first two chapters of EE so I'll probably stick with that! I've downloaded Working with Historical Evidence:Genealogical Principles and...

Thanks, Jan, for the comments. I did buy the EE as e-book in the end, and can view on Kindle for PC but have to admit I've not made much inroads into it yet. I'm sure I'll understand more once I've finished the first two chapters. I'll check out your other suggestions when I have a moment :- - Evide...

Yes, I see that the contents are summarized under the Book Content tab, and a small number of sample pages are available. I may get the whole book at some point but for now it might just be overkill. At least I've managed to get kindle for PC working. It's a shame that the ESM book and Quicksheets a...

Yes, I thought I'd check out the Quicksheet first!

thanks, I tried again with Kindle for PC and now have "QuickSheet: Citing Ancestry Databases & Images, Evidence Style" on my PC! Not sure what went wrong last time.

What sort of Kindle do you have? According to https://www.amazon.co.uk/Evidence-Explained-History-Artifacts-Cyberspace-ebook/dp/B074S4RJRF/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1546624887&sr=8-1&keywords=evidence+explained it's a print replica, only available on a short list of Kindle Fire Tablets and Reading appl...

The Evidence Explained website https://www.evidenceexplained.com/ is currently being redone. It's back up now. I'd love to take a look at the book but it doesn't seem to be available for a standard Kindle and neither Amazon nor I were able to get Kindle for PC to work. It's very expensive in paper ...

I have it all working now, Mike - thanks so much for your help.

Sorry, but you will have to get into habit of giving more details. OK - I'll try! :D How have you customised Diagram > Options > General > Background ? Presumably, One colour and used the Options... to choose pure White? I'd not customised it before, but when I did, I was able to see the Pedigree C...

I suspect you have the Conditions in reverse Priority order Yes Mike - I corrected the order and it looks good. To print it I selected File Save As. I could save it as a .tif or a .jpg but when trying to save as a .pdf FH just consistently crashed. Any thoughts on why that might have happened, or h...

Yes, you need to use the Diagram > Options > Boxes tab << Add Condition > Expression feature. You will need one Condition Expression for each ancestral colour. e.g. 1st =IsTrue(IsAncestorOf(%INDI%,%CUR_TREE_ROOT.~MOTH>~MOTH>%) or IsSameItem(%INDI%,%CUR_TREE_ROOT.~MOTH>~MOTH>%)) ......etc. Set the T...

If it is the Organization Course I found that very interesting and came to the conclusion that there were as many ways as there were students. Yes, that's the one! Organizing your Genealogy (202) There is a little program called "Folder Marker" not sure if it is available but it is brilliant as in ...

thanks, Mike - not as straightforward as I'd hoped but I'll work through it asap!

Does anyone use a colour coded filing system for their paper files and if so, do you recommend it? Or is it better to keep digital where possible? This question was prompted by a lesson in a Pharos course that I'm taking at the moment. Here are a couple of links to show what I had in mind: Mary Hill...

Inspired by a recent course that mentioned Mary Hill's Family Roots Organizer Color-coding (sic) system , (and see also - http://www.mygenshare.com I wondered how to create a simple colour coded five generation pedigree chart in Family Historian. The idea is to colour code ancestors of your: father’...

tatewise wrote:Apart from the first two, all the others and much more are reported by the Show Project Statistics Plugin Exception Reports

Yes, just what I wanted. I was initially confused until I clicked 'Close & Report' and then all became clear!
Thanks Mike!!

So much software, so little time. So true! One of the things I haven't really worked out yet is whether I want to send information from Clooz to FH, or carry on as I was, using Ancestral Sources. And what was the conclusion? thanks, Simonides (currently watching Clooz and AS webinars and wondering ...

Is there a way to list entries with potentially incorrect data? I'm thinking of a potential problem report or query to flag possible inconsistencies eg. - husband and wife with the same surname - parent and child with the same first name - married when less than 16 years old - age at death > 100 yea...

Try this for some introductory guidance on UK Census Forms etc. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/census-records/#6-places-in-the-census Mervyn Mervyn - thanks for the link and other tips. ... the Folio numbers are only stamped on alternate pages. So if the ...

The excellent material at Census Information (Ancestral Sources Tutorial ~ Enter Census ~ (1) Enter Census Information) shows a fictitious transcript of the UK 1901 Census Return and how to enter it, specifically RG Number: RG13 Piece : 603 Folio : 52 Page : 10 Schedule : 79 Registration District Gu...