Family Historian User Group

Thank-you for your useful input. I suspect that Generic might be simplest and all that’s needed, plus a bit of manual entry for “extras”.

I'm a long-term family historian but relatively knew to Family Historian. I've been spending time recently going over my standard sources (i.e. parish registers, certificates, census) and using Ancestral Sources to enter details and images. Now I've come to the Quaker line of my family and I was won...

Thanks. I hadn’t fully appreciated the technicalities. Leave it as it is - it’s not a major problem, just something I noticed wasn’t quite right (to my mind).

I was glad to see this post as it is something I’ve been wondering. As a recent convert, I’ve been updating the more common sources via AS, but now I’m adding more as above, and found the same frustrations (too many clicks). I will also try Mike’s suggestions - thanks.

I’ve also downloaded it (the first time I’ve done this, took a couple of goes …) and used it successfully. Thanks. One piece of feedback - could the autotext template have a heading Marriage or Orphanhood, as on the original form, rather than simply Marriage as now?

Thanks. That's helpful to know. My instinct is certainly to record the data as it is given (and I always would in a transcript). It is a good point about deleting it if you know it is incredibly wrong afterwards. I just wasn't sure what was going on 'in the background'.

I'm using Ancestral Sources to enter census details. How do people deal with the wide variation of ages given? What I am tending to do is allow AS to keep their "real" age if it is more than +/-1 year, and entering the age given on the census in the 'text' transcription. I certainly do this for 1841...

Thank-you for two excellent responses. Putting a generic name first is a good idea. I have to confess I had not seen or explored the 'Work with Data' option here, although I have done something similar with place names. There is so much to find and learn in this program, isn't there?

I am quite proud of myself for working out how to make my own query to find all the different occupations in my database. I appreciate the need to have a standardised form of entry - so agricultural labourer rather than ag. lab, AL, etc. But is there any way of keeping a person's specific occupation...

Thanks, I have dragged and dropped a few. I really wondered if there was anything that might make glaring errors stand out. I did try sorting by lat/long, but then you get places in Canada mixed in with Scotland. I will wait for a rainy afternoon and go through them a bit at a time ...

Is there a way to find places that have been incorrectly geocoded? I have gone through all my places since I first started using FH and standardised how I have written them. This seems to work for most places. But I have just set a map to show all my ancestors birthplaces, and noticed a few strange ...

Thank-you for your input. You make a good point that the grandparents, etc were not actually (necessarily) present, so perhaps just include them in the transcript. (you are right in the value of such records - I didn't make much progress on this line for many years - Wilson, vague date of birth, out...

Any good advice on how to deal with Dade registers where the grandparents (and more!) are often named in association with a baptism? I have made a new 'Associated individual' type as 'Relative', but I wonder if there is any advice, or a better way to do this? Similarly, I'm going to be tackling Quak...

Thank-you, Lorna. That is very useful to know.

Excellent answers, thank-you. Yes, I thought that I would need to think about what I entered in AS - I'm fairly new to FH and AS, so I am learning some of the ins and outs, plus how to make it do what I want. When I say that I would like to make an occupation, e.g. scholar as less important, it is b...

Is there any way to hide an occupation? My specific example is my ancestor, who, on her death certificate, has her occupation as "Widow of James Wilson, joiner" which I want to keep in the record, but not have showing up as her occupation! Also, is there a way to order occupations by preference? I k...

Thanks. I hadn't thought about the Gedcom tag, but suspected it might not be something that I needed to use.

Hopefully, a quick question.
What is 'Custom ID' on the list of repositories and how would you use it?

Thank-you.
So a named list for each archive/geographical area would be best? I suppose that makes sense rather than fiddling around with hash tags etc and I won’t have that many! I will have a bit more of a play with the sample project again to get a feel for it.

I've read several threads with similar questions, but haven't quite found the answers I need, so forgive me if I've missed them! I can see that it is useful to use a named research note (log?) for a specific person so that when I have searched, say, 1841 for all Thomas Burrows in Manchester, I can a...

Thank-you. Very helpful and informative advice!

I'm on a trial with FH7 and impressed so far - seriously considering moving from my current outdated software, despite the learning curve. I have always entered my place names using the Chapman County Code for UK/IRL counties (LAN = Lancashire, MDX = Middlesex, etc), and usually enter as town/parish...