Family Historian User Group

If you are comfortable writing your own citations then you may wish to consider using a pair of simple Freeform Citation Source Templates that I wrote. Please note that they are for Family Historian V7.

I look forward to watching them all. Here's a link to the channel -> Ancestral Sources

Thanks Nick!!

Good to see how you had a problem and then resolved it!

If it makes for a more streamlined workflow, you might find my Freeform Source Citation Template B of interest as it would allow you to copy and paste your RM templates into FH7, with the database name in italics.

Thank you, Nick and Mike. I have what I need now.

thanks Nick. Yes, I've probably done what I need to do using the FH Fact but just out of interest, if I were to do it in AS as you suggest, would it be by using Custom Events in the Census Template Editor?

Are they documented anywhere?

I will, thanks!!!

thanks Jane, that's also something I've not used yet! So much to learn

Yes I can see how to do that now, though I've never added a fact before in FH. Good to learn something new! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

Update - I just completed the addition. It worked a treat! Thanks again!

Is there a way to add a confirmation record using AS?

How do folks generally do this?

Thanks!

Perfect, thanks Nick!!!

I recall adding Christian in AS as an unrelated individual at some point so that's perhaps where I went wrong. I guess I should have added him as a New Spouse to Doritz. I probably did it both ways which would explain why I had two individuals with the same name. The two families were created at dif...

Nick, the two Christian Anders on the screenshot are both 448. In an attempt to tidy up I deleted 447, also Christian Anders, as expanding this entry by using the plus sign on the Individuals tab on FH showed that he had almost no additional additional information. I've attached a screenshot of Chri...

I wonder if I might have been better off creating the husband as a new person in FH and then using AS to create the census entry? Anyway it wouldn't be too much of an issue to restore from backup and start again.

sure, here you are....

I used AS to create a census entry for Doritz Marie Tetzlaff who already existed in FH. New in this census was her husband Christian Anders Tetzlaff who was not already in FH, so I created him in AS. Somehow this resulted in this odd focus window in FH with the same couple appearing twice. The top h...

Mike, a big thank you for your prompt support. I checked all the boxes under 'Offer to create birth facts...' and now have it working as I wanted!

noted, thanks Lorna!

I would simply copy the burial fact of the first person, which you have already created, and paste it to the record of the second person. Then amend the burial date for the second person. (If you have any information in a note to the fact this might also need amending for the second person.) To cop...

I'd like to record a gravestone with two names on it into FH7. Each name has birth and death dates to record. I've used Ancestral Sources to create a burial record for the first name which seems to have gone well but what's the best way to enter the second name? If I should wish to log another grave...

Thanks Mike!

Is there a way to list all subjects and their associated source citations? I'm thinking of something along the lines of a report with the following columns (but would probably be ok with anything along these lines): Name............... Event ......Source Citation A. N. Other ........Birth ........Ci...

good to know it's not me! thanks!

Using v7.4.1 64bit, the button 'Add new empty row (person not in file) adds a new row as expected but the menu equivalent Edit | Add new empty row (person not in file) does nothing. Am I using it wrongly?

Perhaps other users out there may be using Evidence Explained style citations. If so, I'd be interested to learn how you use the FH interface to enter them. I keep an Excel research log with my recent findings, each with a citation that I created from the Evidence Explained book or website. Once I'...

Teresa, thanks for checking it out. I now realise that the collection name is taken from the name of the Family Historian Source Template file (.fhst) that's installed. I've reset it to User Written.fhst and updated the instructions accordingly.