Using Ancestral Sources – Family Historian User Group

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Add a Person to an Existing Ancestral Sources Entry: If a person is missed off when an entry is created with Ancestral Sources, then they can only be added afterwards with Family Historian
Adding a New Person in Ancestral Sources: If when using Ancestral Sources to add a data entry you find it refers to a person who you want to be part of your GEDCOM file, but is not currently recorded, then you can add them directly in Ancestral Sources
All About Sources in Family Historian: This video tries 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? (The video was made for version 7; version 8 adds a third, […]
Ancestral Sources: Ancestral Sources (AS) is an application, designed by Nick Walker, to be used in conjunction with Family Historian () to allow faster and more convenient creation of source records with census events, BMD events, occupation attributes, and other facts linked to the sources, and the ability to easily link multimedia images
Ancestral Sources Acknowledgements and Disclaimers: Copyright Notice Ancestral Sources is copyright © Nick Walker and is currently only made available through the Family Historian User Group
Ancestral Sources Census Source Conversion: How to use the Census Source Conversion facilities introduced in Ancestral Sources 7
Ancestral Sources Migration Guide: It is becoming likely that someday you will update Windows or buy a new PC and need to re-install Ancestral Sources (AS)
Ancestral Sources Tutorial ~ Configure Initial Settings: The Ancestral Sources tutorials require the following settings to be established in order to operate correctly
Ancestral Sources Tutorial ~ Enter Baptism Facts: This tutorial illustrates the fundamental features of capturing a Baptism Record and adding its details to your Family Historian database
Ancestral Sources Tutorial ~ Enter Census Facts: This tutorial illustrates the fundamental features of capturing a Census Record and adding its details to your Family Historian database
Ancestral Sources Tutorial ~ Enter Marriage Facts: This tutorial illustrates the fundamental features of capturing a Marriage Record using Ancestral Sources and adding its details to your Family Historian database
Ancestral Sources Tutorial ~ Restore Original Settings: Follow these instructions to restore Ancestral Sources and Family Historian to their original state
Ancestral Sources Tutorial ~ Working With Options: The tutorials for entering facts all focus on the default installation settings of Ancestral Sources, which for many users will be fine, but there are numerous options that allow you to customise how things work
Ancestral Sources Tutorial ~ Working With Templates: The tutorials for entering facts all focus on the default installation templates of Ancestral Sources, which for many users will be fine, but the templates offer ways to customise how certain features work
Ancestral Sources Tutorial ~ Working With Tools: In addition to entering facts, there are a variety of other tools for manipulating your GEDCOM database
Ancestral Sources Version History: The most recent version of Ancestral Sources is v7
Ancestral Sources Videos: These videos have been produced by the author of Ancestral Sources, Nick Walker
Editing an Existing Entry: Ancestral Sources supports the creation of entries, but does not support the editing of entries (except for Adding Images to Sources)
Enter Census (Video Tutorials): These videos show how to add a Census entry, and each one summarises its associated scripted tutorial, which provides more explanation and references
Family Historian Birth & Death Informant & Other Witness Roles: Family Historian V6 introduced Fact Witnesses and Ancestral Sources can optionally use them to record the Informant of a Birth or Death event
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
Getting Started with Ancestral Sources: Most of the information that is added to a file originates from one of just a few types of documents, namely birth, marriage and death certificates, church baptisms, marriages and burials, and census records
Introduction to Ancestral Sources: Ancestral Sources is a companion product for use with Family Historian
Solving Security Software or Browser blocking Ancestral Sources: Windows Defender, and other anti-virus software, build in protection to stop less well-known applications from installing
Templated Sources in Ancestral Sources: How to create templated sources in Ancestral Sources
Using Ancestral Sources with Family Historian 7: Important Ancestral Sources v7 has been designed to work Family Historian 7 with extensive support for its new features