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. . . I would definitely recommend them for those who are new to citation and overwhelmed by ESM's Evidence Explained style of citation. I've seen many people give up the idea of citing at all as a result. Simple Citations is the ideal solution, which I believe was the reason A Person created the m...

You don't have to apologise for shipping costs. I run my own small business and I can tell you that postage costs are sky high. With PDFs available, it's easy for international customers to buy a copy if they want one. Good luck with the sales and congratulations on getting it published. Thank you ...

It's been a busy day and I am just getting back to responding. I heard back from the publisher and the book is not available in all countries (at least not in European Countries) on Amazon. The reason being is that shipping from the US to Europe is outrageous - apparently $30 (US dollars) or more, w...

Checked the Amazon link, and it is not available in the UK. Don’t know if that’s just a commercial decision not to ship internationally, or something more fundamental. Hi Mark, I'll alert the publisher to this thread. I know he ships internationally. In fact, I know that he's already shipped a copy...

Family Roots Publishing Company has just announced today (New Year's Day 2024) that my new book Simple Citations for Genealogical Sources has been published. It is available directly from the publisher, as well as from Amazon . Also, the templates discussed in the book are available for in the Knowl...

Hi All, I've been so busy using FH7 that I haven't needed to even lurk here as I have accomplished so much new research since I moved over to FH early last year! Anyway, there's a very MINOR bug/typo regarding the Baptism FACT. Specifically, the Fact displays as "Baptised" for those of us ...

. . .In terms of the first issue, where a book title lost the italics, I had used RM7's "Free-form" template. So the italicized title is in a "master" field that contains the entire "master" part of the source, ie. author, title (place: publisher, date). So there was n...

Although I am a fan of using templates, converting a large number of freeform or generic sources can be a veritable nightmare, especially if you have a large number of existing ones. I first attempted to use templates about 14 or 15 years ago and that was a mess. I then created my own approach about...

Thanks, Mike, It worked!

Hi All, I’m trying to create an expression to generate an icon for military service in WWI and/or WWII; a separate icon should appear for each war. I’m running into a problem in that I currently have two expressions: =IsTrue(ContainsText(%INDI._ATTR-MILITARY_SERVICE%,"ww1",STD) or Contains...

Thanks everyone for your help and suggestions. I spent a lot of time battling with this issue yesterday and today. As I was walking through your suggestions, I continued to get strange things happening when trying to print from other applications (and each one behaved differently). In fact, I was tr...

Hi All, I'm having a very strange problem that I can't resolve. Specifically, I'm trying to create a few reports and I can't get them to print properly. The first problem occurs when I try to print reports - the paper size is absolutely incorrect and, upon further exploration, I have found that the ...

Dick, I think we’re actually coming from the same place. My own research concerns similar paths - I’m concerned with direct line ancestry and allied descendant lines; however, unless I have a very specific reason for doing so, I don’t take a deep dive into identifying every descendant of every furth...

Thank you for your tips. From my point of view the whole idea is to keep records on the computer though, and not to maintain paperwork unless absolutely necessary. Virtually all paperwork I acquire is scanned, stored on computer and accessed from there. The only paperwork I keep are those certifica...

Another suggestion you should consider (if you haven’t already done so), is to organize your documentation first. An approach that’s worked well for me, is to develop a file system (I use binders with sheet protectors) and organize materials by surname). I then assign a “catalog number” that consist...

Thanks, Jeff - I get it now. Overall I can see now that at least for the "non-traditional" sources, your template won't work as is, though I could edit it to do so, which, of course, defeats the "simple" aspect! OTOH, for the traditional sources it's perfect - I used it just the...

To me, your model is a lumper approach. Hi Mike, That’s interesting. I suspect that the approach may lean towards the lumper approach. When I created the model, I really tried to start from scratch - as much as was feasibly possibly. My goal was to identify the most salient components needed for ot...

Jeff, maybe I'm missing something, but why not name your personal private collection Repository record such as: Private collection of Jeffry La Marca The Family Historian Sample Project has a similar Repository called Collection of Nigel Munro Then there is no need for a Repository (Unique Item) wh...

Hi Teresa and Mike, Mike's explanation is a good one (and far more parsimonious that mine). His description of the relationship between the " Repository (Unique Item) " and "the " Repository " fields is correct. He's also correct about the issues pertaining to the number of ...

(Continued from previous post.) Hopefully, that makes sense but now let’s look at the new FH7 “traditional” template for the exact same source. FH7_004.jpg The citation that results is: Unknown (after 26 July 1918). "Obituary," Unknown. Unknown Publisher || Elias S. Reigle. Hancock County,...

Hi Jeff, I just read through the Features page and am still not clear on your difference between the Repository (unique item) and Primary Repository. Currently I include both the physical repository where records are held and the online repository where they appear, if this is the case, such as Anc...

I'm so happy to see this! Your philosophy of Simple Citations makes so much sense to me. Now I can get to work FINALLY cleaning up all of my sources that were at one time lovely in TMG and have been a complete mess throughout my time with RootsMagic. Thank you, thank you, thank you! You're very wel...

I'm very excited to announce that after many months of tinkering and testing, templates that follow the Simple Citations model for documenting your sources have just been released! If you are not familiar with Simple Citations , I created it a long time ago to use with my own data. The model uses ju...

Thanks, Mike! Without your help, I don't think I would have figured out the correct Text(...) function. Also, I now only feel half stupid, instead of totally stupid :lol: as I was able to get the full expression to work - I also FINALLY figured out problems I was having with nesting. Again, thank you!

I've realised overnight that the expression can be simplified a little using just TextIf(...) functions . . . Thank you very much! Your simplified code works like a charm! As I was testing the output returns, I came across a situation that was ambiguous - when more than one person has exactly the s...