Adding an unrelated individual
Posted: 15 Jun 2014 16:28
I'm returning to FH and AS after a long interval and have just installed AS 4.0.1.
I was entering a household from the 1901 Census and the family had a boarder who was not yet in my Family Historian database.
I ticked the box "Add to entry following creation of individual".
Am I reading the help correctly -- is this supposed to add a new person to Family Historian? IIRC back in the Gedcom Census days one had to go outside and add the new person to FH first, then come back to GC.
After adding this household I went back to FH and the new person wasn't there.
Maybe I shouldn't be entering data before I've had my morning tea
but I'd appreciate it if you could tell me the correct procedure.
edited to add -- I checked to make sure that I had Family Historian and Ancestral Sources looking at the same Project (as far as I can tell, they are).
Checking FH for the head of household, I now see that his details aren't listed either, so it seems as if the entire entry did not get saved to FH. When I switched over to FH, I don't recall seeing the message that something outside FH had changed the database and it needed to be re-saved.
I should also add that this test database was one I downloaded from a tree created on Ancestry, so who knows what kind of glitches may remain in it after FH's validation / cleanup ran. I am also getting some notices from AS about how certain individuals already have Census entries, some of which seem to be spurious. I did have some Census stubs on the Ancestry tree, but what I would like is to have AS replace any of those with the real entries I am doing now.
In any case, this is all practice to get back up to speed on AS, so if I have messed up this file, there's no real harm done. What I would like to know now is how things should work, so that if I start having a real problem on my main files, I will recognize that something is going wrong.
Jan
I was entering a household from the 1901 Census and the family had a boarder who was not yet in my Family Historian database.
I ticked the box "Add to entry following creation of individual".
Am I reading the help correctly -- is this supposed to add a new person to Family Historian? IIRC back in the Gedcom Census days one had to go outside and add the new person to FH first, then come back to GC.
After adding this household I went back to FH and the new person wasn't there.
Maybe I shouldn't be entering data before I've had my morning tea
but I'd appreciate it if you could tell me the correct procedure.edited to add -- I checked to make sure that I had Family Historian and Ancestral Sources looking at the same Project (as far as I can tell, they are).
Checking FH for the head of household, I now see that his details aren't listed either, so it seems as if the entire entry did not get saved to FH. When I switched over to FH, I don't recall seeing the message that something outside FH had changed the database and it needed to be re-saved.
I should also add that this test database was one I downloaded from a tree created on Ancestry, so who knows what kind of glitches may remain in it after FH's validation / cleanup ran. I am also getting some notices from AS about how certain individuals already have Census entries, some of which seem to be spurious. I did have some Census stubs on the Ancestry tree, but what I would like is to have AS replace any of those with the real entries I am doing now.
In any case, this is all practice to get back up to speed on AS, so if I have messed up this file, there's no real harm done. What I would like to know now is how things should work, so that if I start having a real problem on my main files, I will recognize that something is going wrong.
Jan
