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Original poster back, after a pause. I tried adding witnesses to birth records, and the sources to the witnesses of the births. It seemed a bit long compared with what I had been doing, which was adding sources for the parental relationship as sources at gedcom level 1. Just importing a gedcom from ...

I'm experimenting with importing a gedcom. In my own database I've only entered a small number of coordinates, so the FH geocoding has lots of work to do. It gets a lot of places correct, but also makes some big mistakes, especially in East Europe (Czechoslavakia in the Philippines), and smaller mis...

tatewise wrote: ↑

27 Apr 2023 09:37

That citation case is covered in the FH cunningly entitled Help page How to Cite Sources for Relationships.

Thanks, I'll give it a try - I did suspect that "witnesses" would be part of the answer.

The main goal of genealogy is to figure out the relationships between people. Is there a good way in Family Historian to record the sources for a given relationship? I'm looking for a way to link the sources that convince me that a person is the child of a particular couple. For example, I might hav...

In the FamikySearch tree there is a Relationship source, which you can link to sources confirming (for example) that this person is the child of those parents. I've been using relationship sources in my modified "Pedigree" database for many years. I find it very useful when I have evidence for a rel...

Yes, Pedigree can export a Gedcom, and I have enough computing skills to modify the Pedigree Gedcom to make it more like a Family Historian Gedcom. So, I could easily change all the source places to source notes or publication details, but to me that's a poor substitute for introducing a place field...

A typical source might have a structure like Type: Church Book Title: Lutheran Baptisms Place: Trechel, Naugard, Pommern Repository: Landeskirchliches Archiv; Greifswald This would be my main source for people born in the village of Trechel. Most of my sources are like this, specific to a particular...

I'm a beginner with Family Historian, up till now I have mainly used a very old DOS program, Pedigree. In Pedigree sources have a place field. Is it possible to add a place field to Family Historian source records? It would make it a lot easier to transfer data from my old databases into Family Hist...

What I would like to do is roughly the opposite of what Mick suggested. I don't want two completely unlinked trees. I've worked hard to establish which branch of the blue tree is connected to which branch of the red tree, and want to have that information saved. At present I'm linking the branches b...