Family Historian User Group

Thanks, I'll have a boo :) Teresa Teresa, I'm guessing you are well aware of web clipper by now, I use the inbuilt web browser a lot to grab media and text, I believe this is what is referred to as Web Clipper. I have a tutorial paced media video in the making but you can see the drag and drop from ...

Thanks, Adrian - very useful link :) T For anyone (like me) who's never had to think about how to do the conversion between Julian and Gregorian calendars, the table on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar#Difference_between_Gregorian_and_Julian_calendar_dates might help. Just add to tha...

I'm a member of both groups, even though I no longer use RM as my main software - will watch to see how this develops in those forums. TreeShare can be quite a contentious issue, so don't be surprised by some of the answers you receive. Teresa <SNIP> I'm waiting for approval to join both the RootsMa...

Thanks for clarifying, and yes, I will do so...it's extremely tricky and I realize now I might need to convert the DoB for those whose records don't reflect both dates...another project to add to my list!! I've changed it around a bit and hopefully improved it. A favour? When you've worked out how b...

Ah, ok, that makes sense. But yes, it could be clearer...

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16 Oct 2022 17:58

Teresa, that warning is about missing the leading digit in the second year. It could be clearer.

Thanks for adding this :) This form of double dating is common through many of the records I deal with for my Polish ancestors. Teresa Just by coincidence, I was reading an article in Wikipedia today (about Russian Battlecruisers if you must know) that used dates of the style that Teresa refers to. ...

The obligatory KB article ( Using the Julian and Gregorian Calendars ). The double date is not handled as a date phrase. Helen, This is what I found in this KB article - https://fhug.org.uk/kb/kb-article/historical-date-formats/ "If you enter 24 Mar 1701/2 in Family Historian you will be prompted t...

Mike, Long after the British changed to the Gregorian calendar, the Russian Empire was still using it, hence my question, so the dates for my grandfather's birth in his Polish birth/baptismal record (they are one and the same) appear with both dates: Birth: 17th/29th of May of the present year Bapti...

My grandfather was born in Russian occupied Poland in May of 1889, so his birth record includes double dates: born 17/29 May, baptized 25 May/6 Jun - the record has it recorded exactly like this. The KB tells me that after using the Date Entry Assistant: "Whatever way you chose, Family Historian wil...

None of the marriage records I've seen have EVER stated someone was the "best man" - and what if both witnesses are male? Which would be the "best man"? Seems a bit odd to me to include that assumption that a male witness serves as a best man and to include that statement in the sentence template. O...

I do wonder if whoever you spoke to was mixed up given that this new sub has just been introduced. Hope you get it sorted so you can get the premium account with the loyalty discount. If it were me, I'd call back to clarify. Teresa Hi all, I spoke to FindMyPast just now as my pro subscription expire...

I imagine for many of us who use FH and AS, Ancestry is nowhere near powerful enough to use as a main repository for our tree(s). I don't even use Word anymore, but an indie program called Atlantis Word Processor. It may or may not have legs, but it's docs are all .rtf, so I can always open them in ...

I just used the Bookmark this Page and, as Mike says, it worked. I will add some other sites this way as well. I don't often search directly from FH, mostly because I don't think about doing it that way, but I like learning as much about the program and its features as I can. Teresa There does appea...

Good to know what the price will be to renew with premium. My sub doesn't expire til next May, so as a birthday treat to myself next month, I'll pay the £19.99 this once, knowing what my renewal will be next year, including the loyalty discount. I suppose I could wait til next May, but there are fam...

Thanks, Nick, that's brilliant. I didn't understand the consequences of choosing Method 2 for census recording, over Method 1. I really appreciate you taking the time to spell things out for me so clearly. I have many, many, citations to redo in my main database and would love to use AS to record th...

I certainly hope this doesn't happen. As useful as Ancestry is to build a basic tree, unless it vastly improves its citation and reporting system, it could never replace dedicated software. At least not for me. They'll have to pry my laptop from my cold, dead hands before I resort to cloud-based sof...

Am I doing something wrong that I'm not getting the option to edit the templated source for the census, when I do get it for the baptism?

Ok, thanks...at least now I know. I am still having issues figuring all this out. Do I always edit the source template to enter the citation details? On the baptism, it prompted me to enter those citation details, but on the census it didn't, so that's all blank. Again, operator error and why I'm us...

And one also assumes there is a succession plan. RM has only two programmers. Like you, I'm happy with my purchase. We also usually have at least one computer that's behind the times... It's the same problem no matter which genealogy software we choose True, but other company's possibly have more st...

Is there a way to edit AS entries in AS? I'm still struggling with workflow and realized I missed something, but now can't figure out how to go back and edit. Or do I have to start again?

Teresa

Indeed there is, Mike. I wasn't sure what to do with that second collection - good to know I can safely delete it. Thanks :) Considering Nick's point from the FH perspective, in the FH Source Template Definitions dialogue is there a Collection called Custom (2) that is mostly empty? Past use of the ...

Thanks, I knew it was operator error. I think I have it sorted now... I still find workflow in AS difficult, but I will persevere. I should never have attempted it last night after hosting 8 young people over the weekend for our Thanksgiving celebration. Teresa :) I can't look at this until I'm at h...

And just to confuse the issue further, the customized Census template IS loading in AS.

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I'm testing it on a secondary project as I want to see how it works without risking my primary one. I have custom templates in FH7 that have been added to that secondary project, yet AS tells me they're not there. Very frustrating. All I keep getting is this window. TemplateSourceNotLoaded.png Templ...

It's the same problem no matter which genealogy software we choose. I also keep a tree on Ancestry, but the citations wouldn't be what I want. I have a citations files in .rtf format for most of my main line ancestors and am working to create more as a backup. FH is about as solid as they come and i...