{"id":12901,"date":"2024-02-23T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T17:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/?post_type=kb_article&#038;p=12901"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:16:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T11:16:50","slug":"all-about-sources-in-family-historian","status":"publish","type":"kb_article","link":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/kb-article\/all-about-sources-in-family-historian\/","title":{"rendered":"All About Sources in Family Historian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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, free form, source type, described in <a href=\"\/kb\/kb-article\/sources-and-citations-in-version-8-for-new-users\/\">Sources and Citations in Version 8 (for New Users)<\/a>.) If you haven&#8217;t used Ancestral Sources and are considering it, please watch the <a href=\"\/kb\/kb-article\/introduction-to-ancestral-sources\/\">Ancestral Sources Introduction video<\/a> first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","fh_version":[739,826],"skill_level":[16],"topic":[83,736],"class_list":["post-12901","kb_article","type-kb_article","status-publish","hentry","fh_version-v7","fh_version-v8","skill_level-newcomer","topic-sources-and-citations","topic-using-ancestral-sources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/12901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb_article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"fh_version","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fh_version?post=12901"},{"taxonomy":"skill_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/skill_level?post=12901"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=12901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}