Family Historian User Group

If you cite your evidence outside Family Historian, for example to record your citation in a research log, then you may be looking for a simple way to paste it into FH but still have it appear as a footnote in reports. If so, then you may be interested in trying some simple Freeform Citation Source Templates that I have written. Please note that they are for Family Historian V7.

The download includes two templates:

• Freeform citation template A to be used for citations in plain text

• Freeform citation template B to be used citations with a mixed (ie. italic) text section eg. for titles of websites, books, CDs, DVDs, journals and maps as suggested by Elizabeth Shown Mills (Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace: 3rd edition revised p.52).

You can find the Freeform Citation Source Templates, together with information on how to install and use the templates plus screenshots, in the Downloads section of the Knowledge Base.

Hello Kai,

Thanks for the templates Alas, only one installed...I'm used to doing this, so not certain what went wrong.

Thanks,

Teresa

Is it possible that you installed the single template a week or two back? It's now been replaced by two as above.

Kai Chandler wrote: ↑

06 Mar 2022 18:27

Is it possible that you installed the single template a week or two back? It's now been replaced by two as above.

I just did the download and install this morning...From the bottom of this post in the KB: https://fhug.org.uk/kb/download/freefor ... templates/

Not sure when I went wrong ...

strange, if you downloaded Freeform Templates.fhst and doubleclicked it to install it, you should see Freeform Citation Template A and B on the screen you showed above. From there, you'd be able to add them to your current project. Did you get any message to say they'd been installed? Perhaps you could try again and let me know?

Kai Chandler wrote: ↑

06 Mar 2022 22:53

strange, if you downloaded Freeform Templates.fhst and doubleclicked it to install it, you should see Freeform Citation Template A and B on the screen you showed above. From there, you'd be able to add them to your current project. Did you get any message to say they'd been installed? Perhaps you could try again and let me know?

Aha, I see where I went wrong! I went to the User Written as opposed to Freeform Collection. So what I probably had is the earlier version. Now will try them out again

Thanks for your patience!!

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.

Kai Chandler wrote: ↑

07 Mar 2022 09:16

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.

Glad I could help. I always love playing with the bright and shiny...