Family Historian User Group

I've noticed that when information about the informant on a death certificate is recorded it is recorded against the date of death rather than when the death was registered. For instance, I have a death certificate for Eliza Croft where the date of death was 11 Dec 1874 and this was registered by her father John on 14 Dec 1874. The information about the death is recorded fine against Eliza but the date for being informant is recorded as 11 Dec 1874 against John giving rise to this FH sentence:

He was informant on the death certificate for Eliza CROFT on 11 December 1874 in Sedgley, Dudley, Staffordshire, England.

Which is actually wrong isn't it? Shouldn't it be the registration date, 14 December 1874? Interestingly his address when he registered the death is recorded correctly as being 14 December 1874.

Although I've only just noticed this, it seems that this issue was there pre AS v7.

You are using the informant witness role to link the individual to the death fact. Witness roles don't have their own date. An alternative would be to untick the option to record informants at witnesses, in which case they would just appear in auto-text (similar to 'just a name' individuals). You could also potentially edit the informant sentence template to make it clearer that the date isn't the registration date 'She was the informant recorded on the death certificate of Jo Bloggs who died on 11 February 1912'. The informant witness role was added to FH7, before that you would have had to define the role yourself. See this Knowledge Base article for more information: https://fhug.org.uk/kb/kb-article/famil ... ess-roles/

The alternative sentence template makes much more sense. Thanks for the link Nick, there's a lot more going on here than I realised so I will need to read through it and think how it affects my use of FH.