Ancestral Sources Videos

These videos have been produced by the author of Ancestral Sources, Nick Walker. 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.

If any of the text in the videos is unclear then make sure you have HD video selected by clicking the cog icon.

Introduction to Ancestral Sources (Level: Beginner)

An introduction to Ancestral Sources, a companion product for use with Calico Pie’s Family Historian. This video illustrates how to save a census record in Ancestral Sources and shows where this data subsequently appears in Family Historian.

All about sources in Family Historian (Level: Beginner)

This video attempts to explain all about sources in Family Historian! What are sources? What is a citation? 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 then please watch the Ancestral Sources Introduction video first (above).

Using Family Historian Templated Sources in Ancestral Sources (Level: Beginner)

This video explains how to create templated sources in Ancestral Sources. If you haven’t used Ancestral Sources then please watch the Ancestral Sources Introduction video first (above).

Ancestral Sources Census Source Conversion (Level: Experienced)

This video explains how to use the Census Source Conversion facilities introduced in Ancestral Sources 7.5 to convert plain text census sources to rich text and/or generic census sources to templated sources.

Last update: 08 Mar 2023