Jan kindly suggested that I post here and see if any members of the forum are undertaking a one-place study and using Family Historian to do it.
Specifically I am interested as to how it might help the actual process of the OPS i.e. recording raw pieces of information (eg a census household or a baptism entry from parish registers), proving as far as possible that this particular piece of information does belong to that particular individual, linking it to them, and reconstructing families. We OPSers tend to use other tools, software or otherwise, to do this data transcription and reconstruction process but Im interested to find out if we are perhaps underestimating traditional genealogy software.
Has anyone here looked at using Family Historian for their OPS, or have any comments or suggestions to make on this?
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Jane
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Welcome to FHUG.
I have already responded on the FHU, the following thread is yours on FHU, just so members of FHUG can see what has gone before:
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/t ... 1330387138
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/t ... 1330548294
I have already responded on the FHU, the following thread is yours on FHU, just so members of FHUG can see what has gone before:
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/t ... 1330387138
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/t ... 1330548294
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Not the same as yours, but I us FH for a One Name study. I currently have 123 different trees all in the same project. I makes it relatively easy to spot when families from different areas do actually have a common ancestor and can be joined up to them. I guess the same would occur in one place when you find families having common ancestors.
If I need to idetify the family of a particular individual I just create a quick diagram. I don't find it any problem having them all in one project, compared to my own family tree, which I have in another project (just the one tree in that one).
Anne
If I need to idetify the family of a particular individual I just create a quick diagram. I don't find it any problem having them all in one project, compared to my own family tree, which I have in another project (just the one tree in that one).
Anne
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Thanks for your comments Anne. I suspect I have a steep learning curve ahead of me as I haven't done very much to date exploring either diagrams (which the feedback I've had so far suggests is going to be more powerful and useful for this exercise than I had anticipated) or queries.
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Hello Alex!
On the list, Andrew said:
My husband's family comes from a small town in Western Massachusetts in the US. I have many pages from different years from the city directories which are published there. Sometimes it is difficult to find people in the census, and in the US, we cannot search by address, so I have been tempted to transcribe the directory listings for the street I want to look at (and nearby dwellings on the surrounding cross-streets) so I can use it as a 'cheat sheet' for the equivalent census pages. (I may be doing some kind of mini one-place-study as I hunt for people in the soon-to-be-released 1940 Census, which won't be indexed right away.)
At the moment, I am using spreadsheets to record raw data, but if I were conducting a one-place study, it would be useful to be able to identify families and link individuals where possible within FH.
The other feature which might be very useful for a one-place study is the 'Associated Individual' feature which allows you to link people who are not related. For instance, if I have a page of marriage registrations from one of the towns in New England, it often gives the name of the clergy involved -- one could record this in a note, but FH gives me the ability to link the couples who are being married to the person who performed the ceremony. If by some chance I later found the corresponding church records (a list of couples married by that minister or priest), it would be easy to find that person in FH and see which couples were already linked as associated individuals.
Since FH uses GEDCOM as its underlying database, rather than a proprietary format, that means a lot of clever people like Nick Walker (author of Ancestral Sources, a wonderful add-on) and the members who have contributed custom queries, can easily make tools to extend the utility of FH.
I did try once to make a FH database which was ONLY source records -- creating multimedia items for all the scans I had on hand -- just as a way to keep things sorted out before I had a chance to extract the data. So I suspect that it would be possible, in theory, to use FH for a one-place study.
I'll let Jane and Simon address the issue of how large a project, and how large a place, one might be able to handle with FH.
On the list, Andrew said:
One of the reasons I chose Family Historian over the other lineage-based software is that it has the feature Auto-Source Citation. This allows you to enter the sources first, turn on Auto-Source Citation, and then extract the data from the source.All genealogical software seems to concentrate on adding individuals to 'your family' and there is no way to first record all the references to your surname in the parish registers of parish X and then work through identifying and allocating individuals to their appropriate place within the family and on the tree.
My husband's family comes from a small town in Western Massachusetts in the US. I have many pages from different years from the city directories which are published there. Sometimes it is difficult to find people in the census, and in the US, we cannot search by address, so I have been tempted to transcribe the directory listings for the street I want to look at (and nearby dwellings on the surrounding cross-streets) so I can use it as a 'cheat sheet' for the equivalent census pages. (I may be doing some kind of mini one-place-study as I hunt for people in the soon-to-be-released 1940 Census, which won't be indexed right away.)
At the moment, I am using spreadsheets to record raw data, but if I were conducting a one-place study, it would be useful to be able to identify families and link individuals where possible within FH.
The other feature which might be very useful for a one-place study is the 'Associated Individual' feature which allows you to link people who are not related. For instance, if I have a page of marriage registrations from one of the towns in New England, it often gives the name of the clergy involved -- one could record this in a note, but FH gives me the ability to link the couples who are being married to the person who performed the ceremony. If by some chance I later found the corresponding church records (a list of couples married by that minister or priest), it would be easy to find that person in FH and see which couples were already linked as associated individuals.
Since FH uses GEDCOM as its underlying database, rather than a proprietary format, that means a lot of clever people like Nick Walker (author of Ancestral Sources, a wonderful add-on) and the members who have contributed custom queries, can easily make tools to extend the utility of FH.
I did try once to make a FH database which was ONLY source records -- creating multimedia items for all the scans I had on hand -- just as a way to keep things sorted out before I had a chance to extract the data. So I suspect that it would be possible, in theory, to use FH for a one-place study.
I'll let Jane and Simon address the issue of how large a project, and how large a place, one might be able to handle with FH.