Family Historian User Group

Thanks to Mike Tate and fhtess65 I'm making good progress on adding citations retrospectively (from existing info in my notes). In case it helps anybody else, this is the approach I took. I started with an 'ancestors' chart with me as the root, and worked upwards (backwards) a generation at a time. ...

Many thanks, that is really useful. One for my to-do list!

Interested to know how widely 'citations' is used by users who have migrated from other software (or who didn't use the 'citations' facility in FH for any other reason) . I migrated to FH from old software that didn't have (as far as I know), structured ways of recording citations. I had a couple of...

Will do.

I migrated to FH from a programme that didn't have citations, so if i had started using them I would have had a lot of backfilling to do. I use detailed notes to record my sources and always refer to them in the same way, and in chronological order, so I have managed so far to identify gaps by runni...

Thanks Mike. I don't use citations. (I probably should, but I don't.) I've no idea how common that is among users. If nearly everybody uses them then clearly I'm the one who needs to fall into line! For me personally, the 'if there is no Death event' part would work fine, I think. If I have a Burial...

I tried this out on a few and it seemd to be working as expected. I didn't find any new ones on findagrave, but that's because they weren't there, and it did list entries which were perfectly possible but turned out not to be the right ones. It did also return a 'missing' result for someone who did ...

Many thanks, Mike, I will do that today and let you know.

Many thanks, Mike. That would be really useful.

Does anyone know if there is a plug in to identifying missing 'burial' facts in a project and look them up on findagrave.com? FAG seems to be updated quite often, but as the entries are user-submitted I can't see a way of knowing what new records have been added (unlike, for example, Ancestry or FMP...

Good to see you have a solution. Another thing people could try in the same situation is to buy an external CD drive that connects to the PC or laptop via USB. I had to do that when I still needed to access the National Burial Index directly instead of via FMP, as you had to physically put the CD in...

Good point Mike

Mike, if it is only one individual in the tree that's showing incorrectly, wouldn't it be easier just to go into that person's record and manually put a slash before Singer? That's what I do when I don't know a woman's maiden surname and I want her to be shown as Ann (John SMITH's wife), and it seem...

Thanks Mike

If a person had no occupation because they died before reaching working age, I show the occupation as 'None', so I can easily distinguish them from people who reached working age but I don't know their occupation. This appears in narrative reports as 'He/she was a None'. Is it possible to specify th...

Interested in your comment that a project that has been opened in v7 should never be reopened in an earlier version. I can see why it shouldn't be worked on in an earlier version after being worked on in v7, but would there be a problem if it was just being opened to read? I've just bought v7, but I...

This is my first posting, so apologies if I do anything wrong! I have seen dead children enumerated in the 1911 England census several times, with the correct numbers shown for living and dead (such as 8 children, 5 alive, 3 dead, all 8 listed). In one case, the occupation of the children who had di...