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Thanks -- I got it to work.

I am trying to determine how my son-in-law relates to one of his collateral relatives. These people obviously have nothing to do with my root ancestor. When I try to use the How Related Tool, the only option for my son-in-law to match with appears to be my own root ancestor. I have tried to read the...

At one point I had the Footnote, Short Footnote, and Bibliography all the same. It made for a lot of pages of print! That was my first motivation for using the short footnote. More important, it's just a style I'm used to, from academic/humanities writing and reading, and the issue of how onerous it...

I've just come across this interesting exchange. One question I have is, what happens to the "short footnote" and bibliography associated with the source, when all the information is in the title? Do they end up just repeating the whole title? I have experimented with putting the whole EE citation i...

I am referring to the box that you get when you click on "add new generic source, " at the bottom of the property box in citation section (as opposed to "use existing source" or "add new source from template." In my own mind, I call that the generic source template. It's not Custom, it's not Advance...

I have been bitten by the Evidence Explained bug and have embarked on redoing all my source citations to fit the guidelines, and to that end had settled on using Advanced Source Templates which do the job pretty well. HOWEVER, I have now stumbled across something that should have registered, but did...

I am finding that the Advanced Source Templates work very well for me as I am trying to emulate the source citations in Evidene Examined. Basically, I am happy to be a "splitter" with regard to census households --i.e., repeat the same basic information about the census for each household as a separ...

Changing the template name did the trick. Thanks.

I have several templates in the Custom Source collection. This morning I cloned an Essentials template and then modified it in the Custom Template collection. It shows up there as "modified." The problem I am having is that when I try to create a citation using a Source Template, there are no Custom...

I have a situation in which the wife of a couple died, and when the husband remarrried, he adopted his second wife's sons from her first marriage. He gave them his name, so after their mother's marriage, they were always known by their adopted father's surname. The fact that they were adopted was no...

Thank you both. I was able to find timeline facts, and uncheck all the boxes. I am definitely in the camp that less is more, with respect to timeline facts. I could see it if I wanted to write a short biography of an individual, but to the extent that I want to do that, I tend to use the notes. As f...

I appreciate your patience with my questions. I imported my FTM file into FH v7. I am going through checking sources, to see what's missing and needs editing, etc. What I notice is that the facts section is filled with facts about near relatives. For example, for my grandmother, the death of her par...

I've figured out how to get a list of individuals linked to a particular source, e.g., the 1850 U.S. Census. If I decided that source was no longer appropriate for that individual, how would I delink that person? (v7) I don't want to delete the source itself, but I don't want the person to be linked...

that sounds like it is just what I need. I will go read up on Custom IDs. Thanks.

I am using Family Historian (v7) for my One-Name Study. I have a project window where I enter data about different, unrelated, Algeo family lines. Because it is a One-Name Study, I am not tracing back the lines of women who married Algeos, or tracing forward the lines of Algeo daughters who married ...

Aha! It worked and another lesson learned.

Thanks once again.

I have cloned a template for civil registration, in this case for a marriage license. Since it is a cloned template, I can edit it and add fields to the format for the footnote. After I add the fields, the entry for footnote format looks like this: {Date}{Location}{Reference}{Collection}<{Type} cert...

I have recently resurrected a file I worked on years ago, in FTM, before I knew or thought much about sources and citations. It is now in FH, v7. The source citations range from non-existent to terrible, from the vantage point of several more years of experience. I would like to bring them all up to...

I will try to come up with a specific example of where I am having trouble, and what I think the ultimate end product of the citation should look like. It may be as simple as, I don't understand what goes where on the template. Is there a section on the forum where the templates are presented with e...

I'd like to go on from on Marilyn's post about 19422|Generic Sources , if I may, because I am having the same sort of issues. I know what I want the final source citation to look like, but I just can't figure out how to make the essential templates work for me. Maybe it would make more sense to me i...

Thank you for your reply and reassurance. I do have some studying to do but am glad to know that it can be done. Fortunately, I have done very little with media so far. OTOH, all of my families with the same surname seem to have named their sons in similar patterns, so that might present some minor ...

I have been working on a project in v.6 (now updated to v.7). I have worked in the past on Ancestry on another project and I am going to export that file to a Gedcom and import it into Family Historian. I understand that I need to create another project into which the Gedcom will be imported. In my ...