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Marriage in Descendant Box: Puts the Spouse Name, Date and Place of Marriage in a Descendant Box type, but not in the Spouse Boxes
Marriage Not Found: This Query displays: Individuals with a specific surname Individuals who have no marriage recorded Probable earliest marriage date (say 15 yrs after birth) Probable latest marriage date (say 60 yrs of age) Census place (if known) for nearest census before earliest marriage date and for each census year up to latest marriage date It excludes: […]
Married Cousins and Other Relationships: Family Query which lists Families where the Husband and Wife have a second relationship
Married Women: List of Married Women by married name with Date of Birth and Marriage
Married Women Names: List of Married Women by married name with Date of Birth and Marriage
Media File Formats: Family Historian can attach any type of file to a Media Record, but only image files can be directly displayed within the program
Media File Renaming: This video demonstrates how to rename meaningless file names after downloading from Ancestry
Media Keywords Filtering and Searching: Keywording in Family Historian – how Media Keywords help group and manage your genealogy media collections.
Media Linked to a Record: Lists all Multimedia linked to a selected Record, which can be any Record Type and is prompted for
Media Metadata: Metadata is a valuable addition to any digital file, audio, video or image files
Media Window and Report: This illustrates the features of the Media Window and Media Report.
Merge/Compare File: For Family Historian the files being merged are Gedcoms which have an extension of
Merge/Compare Records and Branches: There will inevitably be times during your research when you suspect or realise you have (for example) two records for the same individual
Messing About: This colour scheme is used in the primer on Customising Colour Schemes
Military: This download adds a Custom Tab for Military details, to the Individual Property Box
Military History: Add this Fact Set to add a range of new Military Facts
Minimalist Descendant Diagram: This diagram (when used with the associated Minimalist Descendant text scheme) removes surnames for the descendants of the chosen individuals, but shows surnames for spouses
Minimalist Descendant Text Scheme: This diagram text scheme removes surnames for the descendants of the chosen individuals, but shows surnames for spouses
Missing Certificates – Ancestors: This Query shows the Birth, Marriage, Death and source information of all the Ancestors of a selected person
Missing Facts: An Individual folder set for finding gaps
Missing Marriages and Divorces: A Family folder set with three folders: all married couples, meaning families whose status is not Unmarried Couple or Never Married; married couples with no Marriage fact, grouped by marital status; divorced couples with no Divorce fact
Missing Sources: A Fact folder set listing every fact that has no source citation, grouped either by Individual or by fact type
Missing Statutory Birth Certificate: A checklist to identify individuals where birth dates are not fully recorded (estimates, ranges, etc), and may indicate certificates still to be sourced
Missing Statutory Death Certificate: A checklist to identify individuals where death dates are not fully recorded (estimates, ranges, etc), and may indicate certificates still to be sourced
Missing Statutory Marriage Certificate: A checklist to identify individuals where marriage dates are not fully recorded (estimates, ranges, etc), and may indicate certificates still to be sourced
More Than One Parental Family: Query to identify possible duplicate individuals through their children
Most Recent Common Ancestors: This Query asks you to select 2 people and the Result Set should include the originally selected people and their most recent common ancestors
Moving Boxes and Branches: Learn how to move boxes and branches, and even how to pull tree branches apart, to make them stand out from one another.
My Research Notes: A Research Note folder set with two folders: all your research notes grouped by status (using whatever status values your project actually has), and the research notes for the record in the Property Box when the folder is opened, again grouped by status
Name Birth Marriage Death Places with Full Names: Similar to the standard Birth, Marr, Death schemes but with Full Names, rather than preferred ones
Name Changes: Contains custom attributes, for Name changes such as Deed Poll, Birth and Adopted Names, change of name on marriage (to contain non-conventional changes, such as a Man taking a Woman’s surname), and adoption name changes
Name Search: This Query is designed predominantly for finding women, as it searches by Surname and “contained in” Given Names, but includes women who match the pattern, by the fact that one of the first 5 husbands had that Surname
Name Search with Dates: This Query is designed predominately for finding women, as it searches by Surname and “contained in” Given Names or Nick Name, but includes women who match the pattern, by the fact that one of the first 5 husbands had that Surname
Named Lists: Named Lists are probably the most under used and misunderstood functions in Family Historian, perhaps because they can be used in so many ways
Named Lists in Family Historian 7: Named Lists in Family Historian are the perfect way to break down your research into groups to be completed
Names Dates Places and Occupations: Shows Birth, Baptism, Death, Burial and the first two Occupations listed with dates
Names, Name Parts and Name Structures: This article attempts to highlight some of the pit-falls involved in recording Names of Individuals – particularly when trying to handle names that deviate from the Anglo-Saxon practice of Given Names followed by Surname, such as: Jo Doe, Mark C
Narrative Report Fact Sentence Templates: These specify the wording for facts in Narrative Reports and elsewhere
Nicknames: Identifies all people with Nicknames – for use when the first Given Name cannot be recalled
No Family As Child (Orphan?): Find all people without a “family as child” i
Notes and Note Records: There are many methods of entering various kinds of notes in FH that are explained very well in the Family Historian Help
Occupation: An Occupation fact can contain all the standard fields for an attribute; normally it will contain the title or description of a person’s employment
Occupations: Query selects all people with one or more Occupations sorted by name
Occupations List: Displays Occupation information recorded for Individuals
One Project or Many: When getting started with family history and Family Historian some users have difficulty in deciding whether they should have one or many projects
ONS – [given] born in [place]: One-Name Study query selecting Individuals by their place of birth
ONS – [given] census in [place]: One-Name Study query selecting Individuals who appear in census records for a specific place
ONS – [given] child of [given]: One-Name Study query selecting Individuals by the given name(s) of their father or mother
ONS – [given] married to [given]: One-Name Study query selecting married couples by their given names
ONS – [given] sibling of [given]: One-Name Study query selecting Individuals by the given name(s) of one of their siblings