There have been a number of different threads on this site concerning the Maps facility in FH. As this is a slightly different angle I decided to start a new thread.

Some people are trying to merge Places to be consistent and we now learn that the AI process of geocoding really only recognises the latest Place automatically and not historical places.

I give some examples.

Early in 1974 I lived in a place Keynsham, Somerset. On 1 April that year when I woke up I found that without moving house I lived at a Place Keynsham, Wansdyke, Avon.  Some time later, after I had actually moved, Avon and Wansdyke were abolished and my old Place became Keynsham, Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset. So in the space of 20 or so years the Place had changed twice.

Keynsham itself is interesting. Whilst being in Somerset I know for a fact that some of my ancestors were born and married in Mangotsfield, Gloucestershire some 10 or so miles from Keynsham. If however one looks up the event on the BMD website it shows that the Registration event took place in Keynsham. It seems this was as a result of the Poor Law of 1834 which designated Keynsham as the poor law Union for 19 Parishes or Places 14 of which were in Somerset and 5 in Gloucestershire.

Another Place is Tilehurst, a parish, which before April 1974 would have been Tilehurst, Berkshire (actually in the District of Bradfield). Then it changed to Tilehurst, Newbury Berkshire.  Later in 1998 The County Council of Berkshire was abolished it changed again. Part of Tilehurst became Tilehurst, Reading another part of Tilehurst became Tilehurst, West Berkshire (Newbury having changed its name to West Berkshire).

As a general rule if I find a document with a Place I will record it exactly as the document shows because historically that is the fact.

I would urge caution about using the latest geocoding when the primary task of a Family Historian is to record history not mapping.

Robert Jordan

I am using the correct version of AS havin g downloaded the latest verson. I had used it yesterday and things worked normaly as it always has in the past. When I added the census details of a person and saved it FH then opened at that person as t always has. This mornong it didn't. It opened at the root person (i.e. me) . Just did a check on my details. All the images I had on there have disappeared. In fact all images on every name have all gone. All this is in the FH Project which I always use.

Victor

I have been working on my FH tree and after just added some census details I got this message I have V7

Family Historian Exception Report - Friday 08 Jan 2021
=========================================================

  Lines marked "EXCLUDED:" indicate data which has not
  been loaded, and explain why it wasn't loaded.

  Indented lines marked "EXCLUDED BRANCH LINE:" indicate
  data lines which are not necessarily invalid in
  themselves but which have had to be excluded as a
  consequence of excluding other lines.

  Lines marked "INFO ONLY:" indicate data that has
  been successfully loaded, but where special action
  was needed to load it (e.g. GEDCOM errors detected
  and automatically corrected by Family Historian).

Record Type=Individual. Gedcom Id=I11117. Record Number=10964.
l.229957 - EXCLUDED: invalid line           : "2  _SHAR "
    l.229958 - EXCLUDED BRANCH LINE:        : "3  ROLE Informant"
    l.229959 - EXCLUDED BRANCH LINE:        : "3  SOUR "
    l.229960 - EXCLUDED BRANCH LINE:        : "4  PAGE Death Certificate"
    l.229961 - EXCLUDED BRANCH LINE:        : "4  DATA "
    l.229962 - EXCLUDED BRANCH LINE:        : "5  DATE 24 DEC 2015"
    l.229963 - EXCLUDED BRANCH LINE:        : "4  QUAY 3"

Record Type=Individual. Gedcom Id=I11880. Record Number=11684.
l.246511 - EXCLUDED: invalid line           : "2  _SHAR "
    l.246512 - EXCLUDED BRANCH LINE:        : "3  ROLE Informant"

Record Type=Individual. Gedcom Id=I21933. Record Number=21444.
l.408998 - EXCLUDED: invalid line           : "1  _FAMC "
    l.408999 - EXCLUDED BRANCH LINE:        : "2  _PEDI Step (father)"
    l.409000 - EXCLUDED BRANCH LINE:        : "2  _PEDI Birth (mother)"

Record Type=Individual. Gedcom Id=I29483. Record Number=28832.
l.544304 - EXCLUDED: invalid line           : "2  _SHAR "
    l.544305 - EXCLUDED BRANCH LINE:        : "3  ROLE Informant"
    l.544306 - EXCLUDED BRANCH LINE:        : "3  SOUR "
    l.544307 - EXCLUDED BRANCH LINE:        : "4  PAGE Death Certificate"
    l.544308 - EXCLUDED BRANCH LINE:        : "4  DATA "
    l.544309 - EXCLUDED BRANCH LINE:        : "5  DATE 25 DEC 2015"
    l.544310 - EXCLUDED BRANCH LINE:        : "4  QUAY 3"

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The numeric portion of Gedcom Ids have been retained as Record Ids.  Use these to match entries to

It opened up on my name with no other family connections shown. I checked my brother and father details they too were alone.

I have also checked other names it appear they have all become stand alone names

Looks as if all names on my tree have become isolated

Victor

Yes there is another way to clone a Source record.  Open the Automatic Source Citations panel and select the source.  Then use the cog menu at the right where one of the options is Clone Source Record.