Facts – Family Historian User Group

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Add Media to a Fact: Adding media to a fact by selecting a file
Add Witnesses: How to use the Witnesses feature to record special roles of participants in events
Baptism or Christening: The GEDCOM Standard supports both Baptism and Christening and so does Family Historian, additionally it also may show both the Baptism and Christening fields on the detail tab of the Property Box Dialogue, and this can lead to some confusion as to which to use
Burial Associations using Shared Witness Facts: Creating and reporting Witness shares to reveal family associations suggested by a Shared Burial plot.
Copy & Paste and Drag & Drop: Right-click Copy & Paste and left/right-click Drag & Drop are standard features in all current versions of Windows, but are supported to varying degrees in different versions of Family Historian ()
Entering Ages: When you are entering the information from a source, you may find you have an Age to record; this will be the age of the Individual at the time the Event happened or the Attribute was true, according to the information in the Source(s) that you have
Entering Dates: When you enter a Fact, you’ll almost always have the option to enter a Date for the Fact
Entering Standard and Custom Fields for Facts: When using most Facts, the standard Fields of Age, Date, Place, Address & Note are usually sufficient but sometimes extra fields are desirable
Fact Flags: Family Historian version 7 introduced the ability to set flags on Facts, and version 8 lets you add flags of your own (see the end of this article)
Family Historian Census Event for UK 1939 Register: At the outbreak of World War II, the British people were required to register in order to obtain identity cards, ration books, etc
Historical Date Formats: At various periods of time and in different places, dates have been expressed in a format other than the day-month-year or month-day-year format we’re all accustomed to; nor has the calendar always flowed smoothly and steadily — there are instances where a number of days were ‘skipped’ when a country adjusted its calendar
How to Enter a Cremation: On the Details/Main tab of the Property Box Dialogue Burials are shown, but Cremations are not
How to Handle People With Multiple Names: Sooner or later you will come across people known by different names at different times of their lives
Internet Data Matches: For details see the V6 book “Getting the Most From Family Historian” Chapter 13 Web Search, Web Hints & Web Clipping and also Automatic Internet Data Matching plus What is Automatic Internet Data Matching and FH V6
LDS Church Support in Version 8: 8 can record the ordinances of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and include them in reports and queries
Narrative Report Fact Sentence Templates: These specify the wording for facts in Narrative Reports and elsewhere
Occupation: An Occupation fact can contain all the standard fields for an attribute; normally it will contain the title or description of a person’s employment
Performing Basic Tasks: In this video, I enter three generations, including birth date, death date, and marriage date
Recording a Civil Partnership: In some respects, recording a Civil partnership is similar to recording a marriage and you should consult that article first; however this article discusses some of the issues involved in recording Civil Partnerships which are a relatively new phenomenon, and need some ingenuity to handle
Recording a Marriage: You may have a Marriage Certificate or a Marriage Register Entry from a Church, Chapel, Synagogue or other religious venue, and want to understand how you record information from that Source
Recording Data from Civil Registration Sources: Civil Registration is undertaken by governments to keep track of births, deaths, marriages, civil partnerships and divorces
Recording from a Census Record: Census records are key events that are just as significant as Birth, Baptism, Marriage, Death and Burial events, so capturing Census record details is important
Recording from a UK Birth Certificate: Demonstrates how to record the information from a UK Birth Certificate
Recording Non-Family Relationships: People are connected by more than family
Some Simple Customisations for Working with Facts: As you work with Family Historian, you will come to realise exactly how customisable it is, and Facts are no exception; here are four very simple ways to make it easier to work with Facts
Sort Dates: The Help File introduces Sort Dates as “Family Historian now supports sort dates, which are an optional mechanism for specifying how different dates should be sorted, relative to one another, where this is not determined by the date on its own or by other methods
Sorting Children, Spouses & Facts into Date Order: When you enter children of a marriage, Family Historian will retain the order of entry unless you tell it different; it does not automatically adjust the order, if each child Birth or Marriage is entered with a Date
Using the Julian and Gregorian Calendars: Use of the Julian and Gregorian calendars is a very complex topic and this article deliberately tries to simplify the topic by missing out a lot of the details
Witness Facts: Family Historian V6 introduced Fact Witnesses, in recognition that there were often more people than just the Principal(s) involved in a Fact
Work with Data: The Work with Data Dialog is used to display and manipulate lists of Places, Addresses, Occupations, Religions, Groups/Castes, National or Tribal Origins, and Source Types
Working with Facts for New Users: Facts are one of the key concepts at the heart of Family Historian; they are how you record the things that happened to, or described, each ancestor (Individual)