Family Historian User Group

Bill, OneDrive has a recycle bin, so accidental deletions can be recovered. It also keeps previous file versions (a bit like FH snapshots on steroids). It's my modern equivalent of the USB hard desk in my office locker when I was a wage slave - I don't bother with a physical copy offsite these days....

“Rule of three” for backups. Three copies on three different media types, kept in three locations. For me, that’s the original on the desk PC, OneDrive in the cloud, and local NAS (or USB hard disk if you don’t use a NAS). That should give sufficient redundancy for domestic use.

Agree - but the point I was making is that while I may be interested in the fine details, others won't be, so what I give other people is a narrative story, not a thesis.

Other users will have different expectations and motives.

Agree with Helen. I never use any family history software to write the story. For me, FH is the data source that underpins what I send around the family - narrative summaries kept up to date as significant new facts emerge. I include original images in the same way a book would do - they illustrate ...

I base my structure on a consideration of the overall body of evidence for an individual, rather than each discrete fact being self-contained. For example, I may record somebody as being born in say Eltisley, Cambridgeshire in about 1820, but without a single citation for that specific fact, if that...

Yes, neither approach is right or wrong. I would maintain that name and fact are not in general independent variables, and you have already linked them with a fact citation. But my style is based on "does this citation add value?" and "do I have the necessary and sufficient citations to allow me and...

My instinct is that there is an element of tautology in citing names as well as facts. The only time I would anticipate citing against a name is Alternative Name, where the cited source explicitly links the two names together. I can’t think of any circumstances where I would cite the top level recor...

No. Two different versions of FH cannot coexist in the same Windows installation, so the only way to run FH6 and FH7 on the same PC is to have two separate Windows installations on separate boot disks. I’m assuming you don’t want to go to that complexity. The upgrade from FH6 to FH7 is usually fairl...

To be fair, none of the major apps document their internal plumbing. RM is probably the most accessible, but all the documentation is reverse-engineered by enthusiasts who understand SQLite, not published by RM. FTM is almost certainly a relational database, but encrypted to prevent inspection. FH k...

All good stuff, thanks - I can only comment on what I see, but glad to see there are things happening behind the scenes. I'm perfectly happy to leave the video page to Vyger - he's made a lot of them, and there's no hurry to complete it. Personally, I'd be perfectly happy with a Zoom group link in t...

I'm not a member of the Zoom group (yet), but I do join a similar group organised by my local FHS. Should we include a link to the group in the KB? Derek posted about the group in Groups.io recently, but Helen cut the discussion and locked the thread. It gives the impression that we do not welcome c...

The program help is a good place to start - check out the section on Sources and Source Templates. To properly exploit modifying, moving and copying data you are likely to have to dip your toe into basic plugin writing as well. FH plugins are written in Lua, which was new to me when I started using ...

Yes, that’s certainly an option. The original plugin was generic sources only, but templates were added due to the forum interest at the time in importing RM via GEDCOM. Now that I’ve got more experience of using templates myself, and RM/GEDCOM issues are behind us, there is good scope for a revampe...

Ok, thanks for that. What I would expect the plugin to do is create a new source (based on the same template) for each unique combination of all the citation fields, and append the specified field (Local Ref) to the title. I’ve never tried it with a source containing that many fields, or with an RM8...

Gary, can you post an image of a typical citation from your source please (as per the attached example from the Sample Project)? I'll see if it is something that the current plugin can (or should) handle. Take a screengrab, save as a file, and use the Attachments tab to attach that file to your post...

That’s probably a good prompt to review the plugin to see if it needs refreshing. It was developed originally around FTM data, and subsequently extended to cover RM7 Templated Sources transferred via GEDCOM. FH now has the much more reliable and comprehensive direct import available, so much of the ...

As you may know, RM includes full details of all the standard Source Templates (all 400+ of them!) in each and every data file. This differs from FH, where standard Template design is recorded once in a system file and made available to projects on demand. FH imports only the details it needs to dis...

Exactly - we all make our own choices on which compromises to make and what satisfies our motives for doing what we do. They’re as individual as we are.

Should have picked up this when you said it -- why do you treat the GRO marriage index citation a separate source to the Parish Register entry when there isn't a separate marriage certificate created by a registrar for CoE marriages? Arguably, it is a separate source, as the GRO Certificate is not ...

Agree - that’s exactly what I said 11 posts up the thread . If I locate the original image, I make my own transcription, and discard other finding aids and transcriptions that cite the same source (unless the document is difficult to read, as in your example).

That's confusing the specific and general though, isn't it? If I have the original image, I wouldn't keep every transcription I find for parish registers, censuses, etc, just because there may be an exceptional case where it is worth keeping both. That's the problem with following "methods" or "stan...

Actually, I'll qualify what I said earlier. Birth Certificate, 1939 Register, and Death Index are not fully independent sources, as the second two are usually just based on what the first records (few of us can remember our own births, and even if we could, we couldn't read the calendar!). Still all...

There's really two different cases here though - my view is "yes" to multiple independent sources for the same event, but "no" to multiple citations to the same source (original register and transcript for example).

It's also worth mentioning that I order multiple sources for the same event in a rough order of priority. So for example, a birth date may be cited by Birth Certificate (contemporary record), 1939 Register (what the person thought) and GRO Death Index (what somebody else thought) in that sequence. I...

If I locate an image of an original Parish Record for example, I create a new source containing both the image and a transcription and delete all existing “finding aid” citations such as a FamilySearch, FreeReg, etc. Similarly, if I obtain a GRO Certificate, I incorporate the index data into the Cer...