I believe Jane has fixed it now.

If it helps, redoing my family tree has helped me find leads I'd previously overlooked and correct errors I hadn't spotted before. Don't get too hung-up on the Gedcom spec -- it's only another way of doing things, and one that I don't always find useful in all its aspects. So for example, I ignore m...

I'm getting the same error message. Any thought, Jane?

Helen, If I understand you then your sources would be, Birth- Maiden name, Marriage- Maiden Name and Death- Married name Short Title would be <<Year Event Place, Maiden Name>>: Marriage 1733 England Clifton with Glapton, William Fletcher and Hannah Stubbs Long Title would include the name the indiv...

There are as many different ways of using the fields in a Source record as there are users. For example, I only use some of the available fields: The Short Title, to let me find things easily in FH -- something like Birth 1849 England Worcestershire Kidderminster, Joe Jones Type -- again as a findin...

Have you looked in the Knowledge Base for your starter for 10? Knowledge Base > Adding Birth, Marriage, and Death Information

1. I record every piece of information -- and if that demonstrates that nothing changed, so be it -- that's still valuable to know. 2. I'm neutral about name citations -- I tend to end up with a lot of them because I let AS generate them automatically, but there's no overhead as they're linked to so...

When I add the source I add it as "Baptism: Name" then here's my dilemma when I put in Type do I add it as Baptism or Birth Certificate. I'd say you're dealing with two sources: the Birth Certificate (one side of the document) and the Baptism Certificate (on the other side). no point did ...

View > Queries isn't relevant here.

If the Individual Summary Report using the Ancestors query isn't what you want, I'm at a loss to know what to suggest. Somebody else may have a bright idea.

Use the Ancestors query to select the individual and their ancestors when creating the report.

I always use AS for the source types it supports (BBMDB) -- quicker and less error prone. It isn't perfect for my needs (around the specification of sources) but I can work around the shortcomings so I wouldn't use anything else. I have also tweaked the Text from Source Templates to suit my preferre...

I'm not commenting on general cases -- I'm responding (I hope helpfully) the specific example. That particular Ancestry database is searchable without a subscription. The site that was the original source of the information was maintained by Ian Winstanley before it was passed on to Raley's Solicito...

It does depend on the definition of a family group -- I have my great-grandparents in the 1911 census with one of their grandchildren (who actually lived 2 doors down the road and so was not resident at the address in the census, but it could be considered a family group). But I also have an ancesto...

Ancestry has the extracted data from the database, e.g. my great-great-grandfather Name: T Jones Death Age: 30 Event Type: Death Birth Year: abt 1840 Death Date: 2 May 1870 Death Place: Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales Occupation: Horse attendent Colliery: Dowlais Owner: Dowlais Iron Co Notes: Kille...

Re CoalMining History, Ancestry has: Ancestry.com. Web: UK, Coal Mining Accidents and Deaths Index, 1878-1935 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. Original data: Coalmining Accidents and Deaths. The Coalmining History Resource Centre. http://www.cmhrc.co.uk/site/d...

Mike, it does matter -- if you don't know the parent's gender, you shouldn't assign a misleading one, even if it can later be changed.

I would include Henry Ford with the status 'never married' -- they may not have had children but he is part of her life story. I would however take with a pinch of salt the children having the surname Ford -- was this in a census? If so, it might have been an assumption by the enumerator. I would re...

Mervyn, similarly applying for a passport in the past was a big event (not like today) and worthy of recording as such.

Alyn, that's a fair point -- except you can't reliably deduce a Residence event from a census -- I have examples of people who were enumerated twice, and there are always the instances of people who were enumerated as Visitor who might only have been present at the address for one night. How do you ...

GenSmarts is another possibility.

It should work with FH 5 -- let me know if it doesn't and I'll work out why.

Have you looked at the Knowledge Base > Research Planner plugin for automatically creating routine tasks?

There are also plugins to look for missing census facts and missing BMD records.

I've never seen any purpose for the Family census event -- it only gets applied to the couple, so you still have to create individual entries for the other family members who are present.

No doubt somebody else will explain its advantages.

@davidf and I have done some work on expanding how_to:create_work_in_progress_or_research_to_do_lists|> Planning and Tracking Your Research . Please let us know in this thread if there's anything unclear/missing/extra you would like to see to explain the possible approaches. The section on "Wor...

See how_to:reinstall_family_historian|> Family Historian Installation Advice where it explains you only need install your latest purchased V5 to V6 Upgrade that will request your V6 licence key and V5 licence key . If you have lost any of those then see how_to:family_historian_licence_problems#misla...