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Another quickie question please I'm trying to tidy my rather muddled and inconsistent list of sources. Is there any particular reason to keep the BMD sources listed as two sources for each - with the two date spans - or could I just merge them to something simpler such as GRO birth register, GRO dea...

Yes, that was my first thought but not in this case.

I am enjoying this learning curve and appreciate you help when I get stuck. Thanks

Thanks, Mike, I see now. Another tick in the learning box

Is this a glitch or am I not looking in the right place? I'm working on tidying up sources and citations after importing this tree from FTM. All is going smoothly and making sense but I have just come across something that is confusing me. Using the Sources index, and View Record Links, I want to ma...

Ah! Such a simple solution

Thanks, Mike. That's added a bit more knowledge for me.

Thank you. What do you call them? I tried to look the answer up myself in the Help pages but didn't know what to look for.

Another little question not worth a new thread. What are the little coloured dots and arrows for on the facts tabs? Is there a key to them somewhere?

Great. Thanks for your help. It’s been a long day but I think I’ve done it! No doubt I’ll find a few little glitches but it’s all looking OK on the surface.

So far so good.

If I have different birth dates for someone in the two files, (but without looking back I don't know which is correct), will it keep them both so I can correct it later?

Thank you, Mike. It's all about knowing where to look

Might be a long job but it's a good way to pass the time when it's just too hot to go in the garden.

I'm sure this must be covered somewhere in the knowledge base but I can't find it. I imported a GEDCOM of my tree when I first got the programme but decided to start the same tree from scratch so I could learn how things work without messing up the original. But, I got carried away, as you do, and a...

Thanks, Mike, that sounds quite complicated at a first reading but I will go through it a few times with the screens in front of my and see if I can make it work. Then I will a) be pleased b) come back with more questions or c) give up and make do with first names only :roll: I'm going for option C...

Thanks, Mike, that sounds quite complicated at a first reading but I will go through it a few times with the screens in front of my and see if I can make it work.

Then I will
a) be pleased
b) come back with more questions
or
c) give up and make do with first names only

Hello all, just a tiny question but I can't find the answer anywhere. Is there a setting to ensure that middle names show in the Facts screen? Lots of my people are only distinguishable by their middle names where family names have been passed down through the generations. For example this would be ...

Thanks, Victor, That sounds similar to the format I have chosen but I am sticking to the format used by the record office so I can just copy and paste them.

We're getting slightly off-topic here, but it may save you from problems in the future. For me, that was not off topic at all. It is exactly the kind of helpful advice that I am looking for so that I can get things right from the beginning and not have to go back and fix everything later. I think, ...

Great, thanks. I'll look into that tomorrow.

Thanks, Mike. That makes sense and I'll know I'm going in the right direction. I'll get the paid version soon then I can look at Ancestral Sources.

Oh, oops, should I have started a new thread in a different section?

So now, my next question... Like many people I don't have a clear grasp of sources and citations but in my new FH practice tree I started creating a new source for each census return then linking it to every family member in that household. The format I decided on is Title -1881 census RG.... Piece....

It's OK, I can contain my excitement! Not sure my brain is ready for Plug Ins yet. Although maybe a Plug In for my brain might be just what I need

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04 Aug 2020 09:16

They can be on your "to do" learning list, but nowhere near the top... .

That's reassuring!

Thank you, both. I have read some of those articles but, as I get more experience, I think I will need to re-read them a few times to really understand what I am reading. It’s quite difficult when you don’t know what some of the words mean when you first start. And PlugIns are a whole new world - no...

Good evening, everyone, I thought I should jump in and introduce myself as I can feel a string of beginner questions coming on! I am a refugee from Family Tree Maker which I have had for about 6 months and am continually frustrated by its idiosyncrasies and glitches. Family Historian was recommended...