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I concur...I gather part of the problem was the extreme privacy restrictions which meant the indexers were reading one line at a time, so if unsure they couldn't compare to other words on the page - a trick most of us use. And, I imagine if doing it 6-8 hours a day, the work done in the final couple...

This is the route I ended up taking - just easier for me to manage... I love the way I can do this in FH way more than I ever could in RootsMagic. T Do those populated citation fields then become part of the source record? No, the citation fields don't become part of the Source record. The Source re...

Down which page? The transcription? I'm currently researching with this but only started recently. It seems that the RG15 numbers aren't shown as 1 line and you have to go down the page to find the rest of the numbers but these don't correspond with the numbers on the actual document? Which are corr...

Nick, Thanks for the clarification!!! Sometimes the terminology is a little overwhelming to keep straight. For me, a visual is always better - I really appreciate the screenshot. Will check my template again. One of these days, I'll get it right on the first or second go, rather than the 50th :lol: ...

I'm assuming your question was rhetorical? Because if you don't know the answer, I certainly don't :lol: Closing FH, restarting my laptop, and reopening FH didn't work, so I just deleted and redid. Way easier than wasting half a precious day off trying to diagnose where I went wrong in the first pla...

Thanks, Nick - I had the first selected, but have now selected the third option. Teresa :) <SNIP> Generated by AS: can update in FH - AS generates the title but it will get replaced by a FH title if the fields in the source get modified in FH. Generated by AS: no update in FH - AS generates the titl...

I figured that must be the trick, but can't imagine where to find that individual item. At this point, I may just delete and redo and proofread it more closely. Isn't the answer different if it's a templated source, rather than a generic source? For a generic source, follow the advice above. But if ...

Yes, it was a templated source... As seen below, I've edited the title, but 1868 still appears: EditSourceTitle2.jpg I had hoped to find an edit option on the right click menu, but no such luck: EditSourceTitle3.jpg And yes, I did fix the date everywhere else. Isn't the answer different if it's a te...

I made a typo in the title of a source and am wondering if there's any place I can edit it? I need to change 1868 to 1768... I've looked everywhere and can't see where I might do it. Believe it was one I created with Ancestral Sources. Is my only choice to just delete and create it again? See image ...

Cool! I'm happy to keep experimenting

Teresa

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22 Nov 2022 19:19

Hmm, sorry about that. Will have a look into it.

Adding new repositories or places I haven't solved yet. Still getting to grips with LUA programming! It's to do with how those drop down list boxes work.

Hi David, I tested the Obit plug-in and all went well till I tried to save. My computer threw this error at me: ObitPlugin-Error-Message.png Also, I couldn't see a way to add a new repository. Overall, though, I like it :) Hope you can work out the bugs! Programming is definitely not my strength, so...

I see your point now and agree - it was just one of those things I'd found useful in some ways, but am not sure I really need it for the majority of people in my database. That detail can always be added manually when I copy the citation from FH to my blog post, if necessary. Will ponder a little lo...

Understood - I can see now why it's really not necessary, especially as so many of the households I'll be entering using AS won't have people in them that will need that one specific field, one I can add manually in my word processor if I decide to feature them in my blog post. Appreciate your input...

Thanks for the compliment re my blog :) I see what you're saying now. At this point, I may just dump the Person of Interest field completely, knowing I can add it if necessary manually to the citation where I might decide I need it. AS does so much that I DO like, it seems to make sense for me to ad...

Ok - I will go with creating a new template. Person of interest field will be different each time. My great-grandparents had 10 children - if I want to write about two different ones and cite the 1911 census, I would want a separate citation for each of them with each listed as the person of interes...

Thanks, Nick - I was beginning to suspect that. What would happen if I edited the current template (with many citations against it)? Would it make a mess? Or am I better off cloning it, making all the fields source ones, and using it going forward? Coming from RM, it's been a learning curve using FH...

Hi Nick, No, I haven't watched that video yet, just the introductory one. I will watch it now and see if it helps. I have posted my template in my response to Mike, so you can see what I'm working with (for better or worse). Thanks for the tip re using the Other Info field - just to be sure I'm not ...

I'm definitely a splitter. And the template fields are a mix of source record and citation-specific. Since starting with AS fairly recently, I've definitely recorded the transcript table so it shows up in the FH 'Text from Source' field. Before that, in many cases, I was doing the same thing in a ta...

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into it. I've had trouble in the past changing citations in FH as it seems to change for everyone attached to it, but that could be my inexperience showing - I'm still learning my around using the sources/citations in FH. I'm likely doing something wrong. One of ...

The one thing I have noticed is that by creating a census entry with a whole family on it in AS is that every person in the household has the same source. My template (which I use in AS) has a Person of Interest field as well as a Head of Household field which now doesn't work, as it only applies to...

As I have always understood it, the standard entry format for genealogy is, as you say, to specify the month by using its short form name, rather than just the number. As a Canadian, I long ago figured out that I always have to be clear when stating a date by spelling things out clearly, as things c...

Hi Alison, I'm relieved it all worked out and am happy to have been of help. Generally, I'm the one receiving it, so it's nice to return the favour for once :) Teresa Hi Teresa Thanks again for that information. I have been banging my head over this for several weeks and yet the reply from you has h...

Family Historian is a British product, and obviously caters to Brits. That's understandable, but I struggle with the date format when entering dates as I live across the pond and the format here is different. Out of curiosity, where across the pond are you? I'm in Canada, and most people here use d...

Hi Alison, So I assume you mean the source images? If so, then, gedcom files don't include images, only text. Your best bet is to use RootsMagic 8 and its TreeShare function to bring down your tree from Ancestry as it will bring in all the source images that are attached to facts (NOT the ones in yo...

Ancestry is abstracting the image from the printed index. I also use the searchable GRO index which adds the MMN (pre-1912) for births and age for deaths and cite it as well. I'm aware it does contain occasional errors, so don't rely on it as my only source. Teresa There are times when Ancestry give...