Family Historian User Group

Hi Mark. You are quite right to have reservations about the model. Any such model tends to be a "one size fits all" approach. Although I did experiment with different sizes and shapes of tree, and found that that made virtually no difference to the final result. But I make no claim to accuracy; I ju...

Thank you everyone for your help and advice. Rather than make wholesale corrections I have started on the task of completely rebuilding my tree on FH. The re-checking involved would seem to me to to have a side-effect of perhaps reducing any errors. This whole exercise has prompted me think a lot ab...

I agree, Jeff. Hence my wholesale changes. I have my supporting evidence, but hadn't been recording it in the most suitable way. Onwards and upwards!

Jeff I think we're coming at this from different approaches. I am interested not in genealogy itself but rather in in using FH to keep a track of my family. That, to me, falls into two aspects. Firstly, I want to keep track the last two or three generations, Group 1, say, ( the "living memory" gener...

Hi Jeff Thank you for your tips. From my point of view the whole idea is to keep records on the computer though, and not to maintain paperwork unless absolutely necessary. Virtually all paperwork I acquire is scanned, stored on computer and accessed from there. The only paperwork I keep are those ce...

Don't worry, Nick. FH's built-in citations and sources are fine for BMD index entries. Where AS really scores is on birth and marriage certificates where there is a load of other information. I haven't explored it for inputting census information but I can see where it would equally shine there. I h...

Hi All I have started on a complete rebuild using Ancestral Sources. Even at this early stage it is impressive how all the information on source documents is being recorded and linked. A very steep learning curve for me, though, especially getting the hang of entering BMD index entries. Feeling very...

Wow, that was a quick response, tatewise and ColeValleyGirl. The idea of using Named Lists exactly fits my bill of keeping track of changes and pushes me firmly towards the idea of converting my existing data. Thank you, Mike. I think my modest project of 600 individuals is probably not going to exp...

Hi. I'm currently on FH7 but have been using Fh for about 15 years to track family and have about 600 individuals recorded. I am only self-read in terms of genealogy, but originally I started developing my own database software to keep track of a load of paper notes I inherited. I soon learned that ...