These videos have been produced by the author of Ancestral Sources, Nick WalkerNick Walker is the author of Ancestral Sources, used with Family Historian (FH) to standardize the entry of Census, Birth, Baptism, Marriage, Death, and Burial/Cremation records for England, Scotland, Wales, US, Ireland, and Canada. Custom templates can be created within. They all have captions/sub-titles available if you struggle to understand his northern-english accent! The videos are also available in the Ancestral Sources YouTube Channel. When viewing a video below you can turn on captions and show the videos in full screen by clicking on the appropriate buttons.
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This video tries to explain all about sources 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 sources? What is a rich-text source? If you haven't used Ancestral Sources and are considering it, please watch the Ancestral Sources Introduction video first.
How to use the Census Source Conversion facilities introduced in Ancestral Sources 7.5 to convert plain text census sources to rich textRich text can be applied to most long text fields such as Notes and Text From Source, and offers a word-processing style of formatting. and/or generic census sources to templated sources.
Ancestral Sources is a companion product for use with Family Historian. This video illustrates how to save a census record in Ancestral Sources and shows where this data subsequently appears in Family Historian.
How to create templated sources in Ancestral Sources. If you haven't used Ancestral Sources then please watch the Ancestral Sources Introduction video first.
