Family Historian User Group

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Colin

Thanks. I'm quite happy to take that advice and keep it simple.

Colin

I have a gentleman whose Occupation was Minister. I also know that at various times during his Ministry he undertook various additional roles, for example Superintendent of the General Hospital & Head of the Associated Charities, now the Board of Public Welfare These are not "occupations" but I have...

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll think about which is best for me

Nice idea

Sorry to keep asking silly questions. I did try searching the Forum but didn't find anything relevant. How do other users capture an occupation, when the source is a death certificate. If we have for example a 75 year old person whose occupation is shown as say "Factory Worker", it does seem somewha...

OK I've had a look, I'll enter manually for husband and wife in this case

I can't work out how (assuming it is possible) to enter a Residence fact as a Family fact. I've got sources quoting where husband and wife lived.

I'm assuming it is possible to enter the fact as a family one, but how.

Ta

Colin

That looks similar to my method but with the order of the naming reversed.

Thanks for the comment

I like that idea,

This is distinct from the file name - which I tend to leave well alone - despite the temptation to make it descriptive.

Will think about that

I split my data, I took that decision on day 1, having read a bit of background, and it seems to suit me fine. As I was only giving examples for a different purpose, I did not fully explain the meanings of the naming plan. In my case, when Source Naming, the words "Birth", "Death" & "Marriage" are r...

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Maybe I'm not storing up probs then. Interestingly I see you do it in short title. I've never used it. What do you differentiate between full and short

When I started, I decided to name sources like this below Marriage 1908 12 03 William McGillivray - Christina Bethune M Cert 1897 07 15 John Clunie - Anne McDonald Imm 1917 04 02 Howard G Barrie This keeps similar sources together, and sorts by date. However I've also used the same method for naming...

Must admit I like this idea I tend to put in an unnamed child with a note saying this is one or more of XYZ (the known children) but I don't know which yet; and then attach the grandchildren to that unnamed person -- that way they show up as individuals and are less likely to get overlooked as candi...

I have a press article that tells me that a lady is survived by 5 daughters. It later adds that she has three grandsons and one grandaughter. I know the names and husbands of all 5 daughters, and I know the name and parents of one grandson. So all possible parents are in the tree already. How is it ...

Thanks. Glad I asked tho. I'd assumed as there were scroll bars that the display would be OK.

Another idea I'd never thought of. Ta

That is exactly what I'm about to do. I have a small number (less than 10) press articles to update). However I do it, I want it to be consistent.

Thanks, I'll read this shortly.

After spotting a typo in a Sentence, I've been editing a fact definition to correct it. However as part of the same sentence, I am getting two squares appearing in my "actual" sentence, in two separate positions, which indicates to me some kind of font problem. On checking the Fact Definition, (News...

I've just spotted a Note Record in the Sample Project. I understand how that would fit as an introduction a tree/report. It is more of an intro note really, and this note would be ideally suited almost as a subtitle to a Project name.

That is a nice and very helpful addition to the topic. One of the problems of using this software is the massive flexibility and freedom as to how we capture and apply data. The drawback of that same flexibility is the fact that we all we all then can work in our own (probably in my case) weird & wo...

Can you help me with an example of when a Note Record might be considered instead of a family, individual or fact note. So far it is an option I have never used, but I'm wondering when it might be appropriate. To date, all my notes seem (to me at least) to have been covered by the three main types, ...

Mike, many thanks for the help over the last couple of days.

I feel for the first time I have now started to understand A Source and a Citation much more clearly