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- 23 Jan 2021 23:04
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Associated Person feature
- Replies: 29
- Views: 16514
Re: Associated Person feature
I am once again trying to enter associated people - and have forgotten how best to do this. These people are employees and collaborators. Women secretaries and so on. Is there any assistance with this in fh7? For instance if two people co-author a play or book. Many people escaped Nazi Germany beca...
- 21 Dec 2020 23:50
- Forum: Plugin Technical Support & Development
- Topic: Order Facts by Sort Date functionality changed in V7?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1955
Re: Order Facts by Sort Date functionality changed in V7?
By way of explanation, what kicked the original question off was my entering a Baptism event with a date that was, in fact, before the "circa" Birth Date I had recorded on the Birth Event for that individual and which resulted in the Baptism Event being placed before the Birth Event (whic...
- 29 Feb 2020 23:58
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Add Image to Citation
- Replies: 31
- Views: 15537
Re: Add Image to Citation
Thanks all for your comments on this thread. I've been pondering what to do about my GRO indexes. Like David, I do have some images (downloads from Ancestry, FreeBMD, etc.). I also have text-only bits from the GRO's own online searchable index. Since I create different sources for "the same&quo...
- 23 Feb 2020 20:38
- Forum: Ancestral Sources
- Topic: Data entry for pre-1850 USA census
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4114
Re: Data entry for pre-1850 USA census
Using AS, I would enter only the head of household in the census (with the counts of the people and other information in the Text, similiar to what Bill posted above). I would add the speculative census entries afterwards in Family Historian, leaving notes as to why I had inferred those persons migh...
- 23 Feb 2020 09:50
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Sources and Citations
- Replies: 23
- Views: 11777
Re: Sources and Citations
Re: the purpose of recording sources. It can be useful to leave some breadcrumbs for ourselves about where we found items and when. E.g. recently Genealogy Bank lost the rights to several of the newspapers that I was using for my own family's research. Since I hadn' t been diligent about downloading...
- 30 Jan 2020 03:00
- Forum: Plugin Technical Support & Development
- Topic: map life facts
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3911
Re: map life facts
Thanks, Mike!
- 22 Jan 2020 20:57
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Ancestry Tree tags vs. Family Historian
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5057
Re: Ancestry Tree tags vs. Family Historian
D'oh! I had forgotten about the Research Planner Plugin.
I've now looked at the article in the KB https://www.fhug.org.uk/wiki/wiki/doku. ... ch_planner and I'll use that as a guide for all my task-oriented tagging.
I've now looked at the article in the KB https://www.fhug.org.uk/wiki/wiki/doku. ... ch_planner and I'll use that as a guide for all my task-oriented tagging.
- 22 Jan 2020 20:56
- Forum: Plugin Technical Support & Development
- Topic: map life facts
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3911
Re: map life facts
The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) lists two cemeteries named Glenwood in Minnesota. Feature Name ID Class County State Latitude Longitude Ele(ft) Map BGN Date Entry Date Glenwood Cemetery 644186 Cemetery Blue Earth MN 440920N 0935855W 991 Mankato East - 11-JAN-1980 Glenwood Cemetery 644...
- 13 Jan 2020 00:12
- Forum: Genealogy News
- Topic: GEDCOM 5.5.1 Standard Release Nov 2019
- Replies: 21
- Views: 13947
Re: GEDCOM 5.5.1 Standard Release Nov 2019
For information about Family Tree Maker, take a look at Keith Ruggle's series Family Tree Maker to GEDCOM to Other Apps Crosswalk (Updated 26 Oct 2019) on Genealogy Tools.com. Keith started the series when Ancestry dropped the Windows version of FTM but before it was picked up by its new developer. ...
- 13 Jan 2020 00:03
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Only Child
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7080
Re: Only Child
This is the kind of thing I would flag on an Ancestry online tree with one of the MyTreeTags (TM). I'm pondering how to transfer my Ancestry Tags to Family Historian -- see this thread: 17357|Ancestry Tree tags vs. Family Historian Ancestry's current set of Relationship tags: Adopted Into this Famil...
- 12 Jan 2020 23:36
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Ancestry Tree tags vs. Family Historian
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5057
Re: Ancestry Tree tags vs. Family Historian
Thanks to all!
I'll have to review all my tags and consider what's best as I transfer my data over.
I'll have to review all my tags and consider what's best as I transfer my data over.
- 11 Jan 2020 06:28
- Forum: Web Site Usage
- Topic: Weekly Bulletin
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7034
Re: Weekly Bulletin
Jane, this is awesome! Thanks so much.
- 11 Jan 2020 02:19
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Ancestry Tree tags vs. Family Historian
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5057
Ancestry Tree tags vs. Family Historian
Lately I've been doing "quick and dirty" work online via Ancestry's online tree system, entering data into Family Historian later, once I've had a chance to properly analyze things. Ancestry introduced MyTreeTags (tm) where we can tag profiles with things like Military service, direct ance...
- 10 Jan 2020 02:20
- Forum: Genealogy News
- Topic: RootsWeb [FHU] Mailing List to end
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7328
Re: RootsWeb [FHU] Mailing List to end
I don't envy any of the mailing list admins. Admin: "Let's move to Facebook" Some users: "Ew no I won't go there" Admin: "Let's move to Google Groups" Some users: "Ew no I hate Google" Users: "Some of my groups are going to Groups.io" Users: "Ar...
- 08 Jan 2020 20:43
- Forum: Genealogy News
- Topic: RootsWeb [FHU] Mailing List to end
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7328
Re: RootsWeb [FHU] Mailing List to end
In all the uproar about the Lists going away, it has been a comfort knowing that FH users at least won't have to scramble to find somewhere else to go -- we already have a wonderful robust forum. What we will be losing is an avenue for outreach. The mailing list was good for answering simple questio...
- 08 Jan 2020 20:15
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Grandchild, parent unknown
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7159
Re: Grandchild, parent unknown
For linking grandparents and grandchildren, I don't like to use a dummy parent. Sometimes I add unnamed children to a tree because of a child count in a census, or because of un-named survivors in an obituary (as a reminder that there may be more people to look for). Suppose now I that I have done s...
- 21 Aug 2019 17:22
- Forum: Genealogy News
- Topic: I Quit FH for TMG
- Replies: 44
- Views: 29082
Re: I Quit FH for TMG
It is my understanding that the Master Source in other programs would consist of the high-level data such as the details for the 1930 US Federal Census (Microcopy publication T626, Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930, n number of microfilm rolls) which is common to all the census entries, an...
- 01 Apr 2019 15:40
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Couple in between siblings.. help
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7767
Re: Couple in between siblings.. help
Much as I hate to steer people away from using Family Historian, I'll toss out a couple of suggestions for other diagramming tools. Tony Proctor's SVG was designed for people drawing trees for blog posts. I haven't used it yet, so I don't know what features if any it has for displaying charts for pr...
- 01 Apr 2019 15:31
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: FH vs others
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7159
Re: FH vs others
The only program I am aware of (edit: I didn't know about using TNG until I read the previous post) that offers this kind of option is Ancestral Quest, which has a collaboration feature. I used Ancestral Quest as a solo user before I abandoned it in favor of Family Historian 3. No one else in my fam...
- 01 Apr 2019 15:12
- Forum: Ancestral Sources
- Topic: Problems with extended families in AS
- Replies: 25
- Views: 16263
Re: Problems with extended families in AS
@ jmurphy Quote: "I was struggling about how to enter the children in my tree. Should I list the girl's uncle as her stepfather as well as leaving the uncle/niece relationship intact? What about the twins -- should I include their adoptive family?" STEP RELATIONSHIPS: The girl's Uncle was...
- 09 Mar 2019 21:45
- Forum: Ancestral Sources
- Topic: Problems with extended families in AS
- Replies: 25
- Views: 16263
Re: Problems with extended families in AS
... in the case of step relationships I don't usually record these relationships as such in FH because it is clear from diagrams or the Focus window that a child is descended from only one of the couple ... At risk of diverting off on a tangent, I would record children as step-children (to one pare...
- 09 Mar 2019 21:09
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Evidence Explained citations and Evidentia
- Replies: 36
- Views: 22994
Re: Evidence Explained citations and Evidentia
A couple of thoughts. I bought Evidence! quite a while ago now, and I haven't done a side-by-side comparison with the material in EE. You may want the little Evidence! as well as EE to see the development of ESM's thinking on analyzing evidence. Just as we look at sources and pay attention to the da...
- 20 Feb 2019 03:16
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Evidence Explained citations and Evidentia
- Replies: 36
- Views: 22994
Re: Evidence Explained citations and Evidentia
If you've got EE itself, you may not need Evidence! -- there will be a lot of overlap with the first two chapters of EE. But I do think ESM's article "Working with Historical Evidence" is important because it shows her argument of why the older systems of evidence analysis like what you le...
- 23 Jan 2019 02:08
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Evidence Explained citations and Evidentia
- Replies: 36
- Views: 22994
Yes, EE is expensive -- I compromise by getting every other edition as an e-book. I have Evidence! (the slim white book) and EE 3rd Edition in hardcover, and EE 2nd Edition and EE 3 rev in e-editions. That way I can read EE 3rd edition in relative comfort and then refer to EE 3rd revised to see what...
- 23 Jan 2019 01:38
- Forum: Genealogy News
- Topic: Ancestry DNA tests
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9044
Re: Ancestry DNA tests
In most cases I can identify a common ancestor. Does this mean that I can be fairly sure that the line from me to the common ancestor is established? if you're talking about simply comparing any one 4th-cousin match and you, then the answer is probably NO. Ancestry has "Shared Ancestor Hints&q...