Enter Census (Video Tutorials) – Family Historian User Group

Skill Level: Advanced, Intermediate, and New User
FH versions: V4, V5, V6, and V7
In Topics: Using Ancestral Sources

Introduction

These videos show how to add a Census entry, and each one summarises its associated scripted tutorial, which provides more explanation and references. (See the Enter Census Information tutorial scripts).

They are based on very old versions of 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 Family Historian, so do not include some of the features that are now available such as templated sourcesFamily Historian Version 7 introduced the ability to define sources using 'Source Templates' to aid precision and consistency in entering source-identifying information. and rich-text. Videos that refer to those new features are available on the Ancestral Sources Videos page. However, the fundamental concepts of capturing the data are still reasonably relevant.

The total running time for this entire series of videos is about 18 minutes.

This is not representative of the time needed to enter a Census record, because it includes configuring initial settings, setting once only Options and Repository details, as well as examining Family Historian, and restoring original settings. A more realistic time would be less than 9 minutes.