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Thanks, Mike. I assumed that must be the case. I might just create 'Other' or 'Note' as you suggest. I'm not too concerned with the sentences (I don't tend to do reports etc) and it would only be a few entries, I think, so no great bother to adapt as I go.

Is there a way to create an event without it having a title? I have a few events that would be good to note for evidence of a person being alive in a certain place and time, but they are perhaps a bit too specific to create a whole new custom event for - I suppose I could create 'Other' if need be ....

Thank-you for both these helpful replies. It does seem that some of them are duplicates, but Mike's suggestions of sorting by filename and by record ID have helped me sort them out! I know it doesn't make a great deal of difference to my actual records, but if I don't sort it out now, I'll be back w...

I've been happily and successfully attaching media to my sources and citations, either manually, or using AS. But I've just learned a bit more about media and I'm going through my media, checking broken links, adding links to people where this is missing etc. I have opened the Media Records window a...

Thank you. I felt like I was trying every variation and it was simpler to ask!

I have had the same problem and I managed, after some fiddling around, to reset it for one project. Now I've moved to my main project and I'm blessed if I can a) remember what I did, or b) replicate it. Please save my sanity and give me a clear instruction on how to reset it so AS prompts me for whe...

Thank-you. I have been trying to read up on it, but that is the clearest explanation I've had!

Within Tools / Fact Sets have you "ticked" the "Show Hidden" option - it is possible it's status may have been accidently changed to "hidden"! Yes, that's exactly what I had done! (and I thought I had checked this sort of thing). I knew it would be something silly :oops: Thank-you so much! (another...

I have a horrible feeling that the answer will be something obvious, but here goes ...! Residence is not showing in the drop-down 'Add fact' list, nor is it under 'More facts'. Residence does show for people, but I think this is where I have entered it via AS for BMD/Census etc. If I try to add it a...

That worked! Thank-you so much, I would not have thought of doing that.

I really just want some reassurance on this before I do anything! My PC shut itself down unexpectedly a couple of days ago while I was working on FH. On restarting there was nothing showing in my project. Thankfully, I back up regularly and was able to restore from the backup (once I'd realised it g...

Thanks, I had looked but not found anything (biography is a good search term in hindsight!). The Biography attribute (? not fully au fait with all the terminology ... ) seems to be ideal.

I am interested to know how people use FH in relation to narratives, such as newspaper reports, or, say, a biographical account, or a letter - but something that doesn't really fit into an event as such, or that you don't wish to use in that way. For example, my grandad won 2nd prize for his dahlias...

Thanks for the input - it’s always worth asking!

Is there any simple way to change a source to a citation? I've pretty much got the hang of them now, but I do occasionally find something I've entered earlier as a source that really should have been a citation. For instance, My source, 'Find a Grave' also has the burial entry for John Sunderland as...

I'm not sure if this is quite the sort of response you want, but here goes. Relatively new to FH coming from Brothers Keeper. It took me a while to work out how to make a To-Do list in FH which I now do using named lists - I tend to have one for a specific CRO or online resource (e.g. I have one for...

Ruth, could you explain why you need the most recently used at the top? (There may be a better method) What exactly do you mean by 'recently used'? Do you mean most recently cited? If you have just added a Citation and want the same Citation added to other items then use Copy and Paste Citation. If...

Whatever the last sort order is used for sources in the Records Window, is the order they will be presented to the user when adding an existing source. Thanks, I hadn't realised that - that is well worth knowing. I had tried to sort in the 'Cite existing source' list/window, to no avail. I adjust t...

Is there a way to get the list of sources when I click "Cite existing source" to put the most recently used at the top? Currently my list seems to be ordered by the number of citations - greatest first. I have found that the 'Show recent' button is not terribly useful - it often shows nothing, even ...

Mike, Well done. I didn't have time to trawl through the FindMyPast records but have followed through your leads and can add a little more from Ancestry: John Grimshaw in the "Canada, British Regimental Registers of Service, 1756-1900": Indexed: Name: John Grimshaw snipped Just be aware that the “C...

I did actually take the plunge and used the plug-in - worked like a dream!

Thank-you. I had searched the forum and Knowledge Base but obviously I hadn’t dug deeply enough into that article!

Excellent. I shall give it a go (although I’ve not been adventurous to try plug-ins so far).,

Is there any simple way to change the name/type of fact while leaving the date & place intact? I have some imported family that uses Christening, when, for consistency if nothing else, I prefer it to be Baptism. It’s not a great issue, or indeed too much work to do it manually, but it could make lif...

Slightly off-topic but will someone please enlighten me as to “DEA”? I’ve seen it several times on the forum but can’t for the life of me work it out (and Google’s not much help).