This video tries to explain all about sourcesSource: "where information was found". This could be anything from an archive in a county records office, a book, or even a relative's recorded recollection. Citing your Sources helps to show how you reached a particular conclusion about an Individual. in Family Historian! What are sources? What is a citationA link between a source and a fact, documenting Where within the source you find information being "cited" to support the fact/conclusion.? What is the difference between a splitter (method 1) and lumper (method 2) source? What are generic and templated sourcesFamily Historian Version 7 introduced the ability to define sources using 'Source Templates' to aid precision and consistency in entering source-identifying information. ? What is a rich-text source? (The video was made for version 7; version 8 adds a third, free form, source type, described in Sources and Citations in Version 8 (for New Users).) If you haven’t used Ancestral SourcesAncestral Sources is a utility written by Nick Walker, designed to be used in conjunction with Family Historian to allow faster, more convenient creation of Census, Birth, Baptism, Marriage, Death and Burial/Cremation records. and are considering it, please watch the Ancestral Sources Introduction video first.