By genealogy convention in FH & AS people are usually identified by their birth name including married women. How you implement the above when you "meet" a woman for the first time as a married woman and may not know here maiden name requires some form of personal convention. I use th...

Helen I think I generally agree with your analysis. For a solution to (1) - your ' Simple To-Do List ', a stand alone application or the calendaring function of many email clients may already do what many people want, some of which I have mentioned: ⋅  ToDo.txt - which being text based int...

David, thank you for your list, but everyone could come up with a variety of similar lists. Unfortunately, they don't really help us specify to FH what we want implemented. That needs a list of features that allow all manner of such lists to managed. You need to re-focus and think of what features ...

list desired features in precedence order, rather than try to define essential and optional features. I am not sure we will get consensus on this - possibly falling back on trying to design the solution rather than think about the range of user requirements. My pennyworth of the range of things tha...

My instinct is to not put multiple individuals on a single row, but split them across multiple rows as this permits more useful sorting and filtering (e.g by individual, by year, by address, by Head of Household). It also allows you to add BMD records for the individual who "owns" the row....

Can I complicate things? Do we want this as a feature of FH or do we want a "to do list" which can integrate with FH (like AS?) either as a new application (like AS) or by integrating an existing application? For instance I have been looking at the wiki software Zim and its add-in task-lis...

One of the problems with Underscores is that if they get incorporated in_a_link, the underlining of the link can obscure the underscore making it look like a space.
I find a tilde (~) is a useful separator or substitute character (for instance in filenames where you cannot use /,\,|,: etc.!)

Mike/Mike Is this an FH question of more one of "family reconstruction"? FH is great for recording, but I do find it sometimes difficult for analysis and synthesis. A spreadsheet is often flexible enough to allow you to use it for family reconstruction, but it is then a pity that you canno...

Hi Further, if I assume the family were living in the baptism town, should I also assume that, by inference, mother Elizabeth would also be resident at the town, even though she is not listed at all. That would mean linking the mother's residence fact to a source that does not even show her name. I...

Garry Firstly, roles and terminology in wills and the granting probate. I have found that in most of the wills I have, the trustee and executor are one and the same. However, not all wills appoint a trustee. Terminology also appears to be adding to the discussion. In some cases, terms are being inte...

I guess a lot depends on where you are coming from in terms of tightening up personal practice (particularly after beginning to get to grips with "FHwitnesses"). The key question is how much effort you are prepare to put into reworking Family Trees to make them consistent with your own cur...

With regard to Wills, I think users need to decide what conventions they are going to follow. (Mike may move this to a more appropriate part of the forum!) People can make multiple wills and it is often interesting to follow thorough the changes and see how family dynamics (or members have changed)....

Dave in the export file your Mother only has one set of parents, so I am not seeing the problem, could you try an export again including both sets of parents. (Yes, I keep my mother's genetic family in a different file so that I do not accidentally share/upload - My mother's genetic maternal side k...

Jane wrote:Also if you run the maternal line option does that show the adopted family as well

Yes - but it also shows my mother

Thanks, combined with flags or named lists that should do exactly what I want! however! In my main FT file, I am the root and it contains my genetic paternal line and my mother's adoptive line (i.e. the "public family"). My mother is marked as adopted in the relationship field in the "...

If you access via FreeBMD it is possible to look at the images of the birth indices. In cases like these there are often manuscript explanations (usually a footnote mark, followed by a note at the foot of the page)

Waiting for those code snippets sounds more profitable that learning lua and writing a tree-crawler - an interesting challenge but I have other things I want to do!

Thanks

Some interesting options but I don't see one that does quite what I would like to do. Context The (UK) Ministry of Defence (JCCC) is responsible for identifying the remains of (e.g. WW1) soldiers found on the battlefields. Sometimes they can draw up a shortlist of who the soldier might be. They then...

I imagine your female lineage is not so much a tree as a single column of boxes from you (or your wife) up to the oldest female direct ancestor. In that case you know the people involved, so use Tools > How Related to choose you and your eldest female direct ancestor, then Display Graphically and H...

I tend to think about how I would want those facts "revealed" If you want it to appear in diagrams and reports, adding the detail from the article as the relevant fact (occupation/residence etc), means it will be revealed without adding a custom fact to your diagrams and reports. If you ju...

Thanks wrt ⋅ Expanding the column width! ⋅ Then being able to move the "citation notes" up/down ⋅ Pointing out that the SOUR in the All tree is actually closer to a CITE (although in hierarchical database design the position in a tree can vary?) ⋅ Th...

1) Another provider could read an GEDCOM from FH in order to provide a 3D view of a 10 generations tree (non-fan chart) and produce the standard STL file for 3D printers to deliver a 3D family tree kit ? 2) Does this idea can be submitted to FH to get a new FH Pack or to get a new FH plugin to view...

tatewise wrote:Multiple references to the same Source are not causing the replication.

But it does look as if somehow the residence and occupation facts for 1861 have two sources:
1861 Census
1851 Census

Not a cause of the original problem - but it does look as if some tidying may be required!

All I want to achieve is a report containing a single source record for a census record, with the census image and transcript attached. This will request will jump you into the lumper/splitters debate that crops up in numerous questions! (see current discussions on Multiple evidence of event ). You...