One of my ancestors came from an obscure little village overseas. I've found out quite a lot about this place on the Net. Any ideas on what would be the best way of storing this info. within fH? I've looked at the online User manual but this doesn't seem to help.
Mike
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* Where to put info. on a specific place?
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Jane
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There are a couple of options, you could add an external document as a multimedia object, if you have photos etc this may be the best way.
My personal choice for information of that sort is to create a source record and linked note record and put the information in to that. I can then reference the source and when I print out summarys I tend to also print source report documents to go with them.
My personal choice for information of that sort is to create a source record and linked note record and put the information in to that. I can then reference the source and when I print out summarys I tend to also print source report documents to go with them.
Where to put info. on a specific place?
Sorry Jane, I'm being really slow here - it must be the unseasonal heat in London!
1) Not sure what you mean by a 'linked note record'?
2) This particular ancestor gave his age and place of birth on a census form - consequently, that census appears as a source whenever you click on his place of birth in the property dialogue box. I realise you can have two sources for the same thing, but I still don't really understand how I get my 'source', [which will probably be a fairly lengthy MS Word doc], into fH and whereabouts to put it once it's there?
Mike
1) Not sure what you mean by a 'linked note record'?
2) This particular ancestor gave his age and place of birth on a census form - consequently, that census appears as a source whenever you click on his place of birth in the property dialogue box. I realise you can have two sources for the same thing, but I still don't really understand how I get my 'source', [which will probably be a fairly lengthy MS Word doc], into fH and whereabouts to put it once it's there?
Mike
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Jane
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Where to put info. on a specific place?
Notes can be local or records. You can attach a note record to multiple people. Note records appear in the Notes Tab of the Records window.
If you have a 'big' word document I would attach that as a multimedia record and attach that to a source.
You can have as many sources as you want for any event. So on some on mine I would have as sources for a birth, a birth certificate, 2 or 3 census sources and may be a marriage certificate.
If you want to include the information from the document in the reports FH produces rather than just referencing it I would create a note record with the information.
I think if you have a look at chapter 9 of the manual things may become a little clearer, otherwise come back again.
Its a bit warm down here in Somerset, been sat on the lower terrace (in the shade) rather than on the top where its a lot warmer.
If you have a 'big' word document I would attach that as a multimedia record and attach that to a source.
You can have as many sources as you want for any event. So on some on mine I would have as sources for a birth, a birth certificate, 2 or 3 census sources and may be a marriage certificate.
If you want to include the information from the document in the reports FH produces rather than just referencing it I would create a note record with the information.
I think if you have a look at chapter 9 of the manual things may become a little clearer, otherwise come back again.
Its a bit warm down here in Somerset, been sat on the lower terrace (in the shade) rather than on the top where its a lot warmer.