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Thank you so much!

I don't know how many times I've read something in the book and gone "really, that's all you have to do?..." after I figured out a convoluted 14-click method to achieve the same thing

I am a fairly recent convert to Family Historian. When I started my genealogy research back in 2008, I used the then brand-new online Geni tree, but after discovering that other members could turn my beautifully researched tree into the topiary from "The Shining", I abandoned it and started using Le...

I have seen the Birth Witness facts - that was what initially gave me the idea to use the associations... There are many of the records in my database which have no birth date (and therefore no birth record) and never will. The best I can hope for is the baptism records (the later ones recorded a da...

Thanks for the prompt reply, Mike. I am trying to find a way to attach sources to the parent-child relationship itself. In my du Raan/Duraan family we have a few names that were used repeatedly, along with some cousin-marriages just to confuse things. Connecting these correctly, have been a nightmar...

I just found this post while trying to work around this problem for baptism and death records... I had predominantly Dutch predecessors (that just took the French surnames that arrived at the Cape and recorded them phonetically) until the English arrived and they then just recorded it the way they t...