This is the latest version of Ancestral Sources by Nick Walker, an add-on for Family Historian. This version deals with Census, Birth, Baptism, Marriage, Death, Burial/Cremation and Monumental Inscription sources. It supports all versions of Family Historian, and the latest ƒh v7 features, including rich-text and source templates. Ancestral Sources also has facilities for users of earlier versions of FH/AS to convert plain text census sources into rich-text and/or generic census sources into templated versions. There is also a ‘Tree View’ to allow individuals to be added to an entry from a descendant tree.

Ancestral Sources makes adding source entries to ƒh much quicker and easier to achieve. Simply enter the record details and allow Ancestral Sources to do all the hard work of creating Census, Birth, Baptism, Marriage, Death, Burial, Occupation, Residence and other Facts linked via Citations to Sources and Multimedia records.

You can see a list of all the features in this and earlier versions of Ancestral Sources on the Version History page.

You can find out more about Ancestral Sources on the Ancestral Sources Videos page.

Installation Instructions

Ancestral Sources is now primarily available, free of charge, in the Microsoft Store. Installing from the Microsoft Store gives the peace of mind that it has passed the Microsoft approval process in order to be accepted. It also means that it will automatically update as new versions are released. You can install Ancestral Sources from the following link, but on the web page that appears it is recommended that you click the View in Store link as the install seems to be more reliable through the Microsoft Store app:

Ancestral Sources in the Microsoft Store

AS requires the Microsoft .Net 4.8 framework, which is almost certain to already be on your computer, but if it isn’t then you should be prompted to download it. Alternatively this can be downloaded from Microsoft: Microsoft .Net 4.8

Other Sources for Installation

Although the Microsoft Store link above is the recommended way to install Ancestral Sources, there is also a separate download available for advanced users who may need a non-store version. These downloads do not include a code-signing certificate so your browser will warn you that they may not be safe and will try to stop you doing so. This is generally good advice as software that doesn’t have a certificate to identify the developer can be risky. The 64 bit version (recommended) is here: Ancestral Sources v7.9.11 (64 bit version) but there is also a 32 bit version: Ancestral Sources v7.9.11 (32 bit version).