Dave, You are extremely fortunate to have this book. I won't comment on entering the data as others have already done so adequately. I advise that you don't initially look for what's missing, but

I must reinforce what Adrian is saying here. It is critical that you create a source for your “Written Family Tree” and include as much information about it as you can, who created it, when was it

As others have said, you can work in whichever direction you prefer.   As the book is laid out "from the oldest ancestor down" and you think it contains 100-200 people I assume a lot of these people

As Trevor said, you can enter the stuff in any order, but I would suggest that you first think how you can enter the data and be sure that you haven't missed anyone. That might mean that you start

I think it maybe best to start with your name and work backwards as you may find some missing names as you go back Get BlueMail for Android On 11 Nov 2020, at 10:44, Dave <dcc@...> wrote:

You may enter people in any order you wish. For dates 1837 onwards use FreeBMD as your first option. During this pandemic many county libraries are providing free access to Ancestry library edition

I have a family book that dates back to the late 1700's and has all my ancestors documented - perhaps 100-200 people. If I am about to begin entering this tree into FH software, can I start with the

There appears to be quite a number of supporters of TNG here Nick, and Paul Tanner-Tremaine's use of it is very impressive. I have quite a number of living people on my TNG tree so, given that you

Nick, There are examples of TNG websites derived from FH in the FHUG Knowledge Base ~ Member Web Sites: https://www.fhug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=links:the_next_generation_tng Plenty of FH users

Nicholas, I have an 'open' website under TNG for the British 1820 Settlers to South Africa at https://www.1820settlers.com I began the website in 2003 updating the website with gedcoms from PAF, and

Jonathan, I have just spent 20 minutes rumbling around the TNG site. This is quite a revelation. I looked at the samples, but like you I am very interested in including family narratives of key

Mike and other subsequent respondents: I am overwhelmed with the timeliness, clarity and quality of your answers/suggestions. They all perfectly address my concerns and give me very clear directions

Thank you for your help & patience Jane. Sue Sent from Mail for Windows 10

Nick, An alternative for building your website would be to use TheNextGeneration (TNG) - a very versatile program for displaying the contents of a Gedcom file in all sorts of ways that you would run

The FHUG Forums can be set up in various ways to Email you with postings. In your Profile you can opt to Receive Weekly Activity Summary by Email. You can also Subscribe to any Forum and get an

Mike Tate said: "However, it would be a lot easier via the FHUG Forums to provide the Knowledge Base links, attach files, etc." I do appreciate that it would be much easier BUT - unless I have a

Hi Nick, I think the answers are straightforward enough to fit into one thread. Have a common ancestor report. I have experimented with this and found that a simple Query will work together with the

If you want to avoid the Parents having the wrong marker you can use =Text(TextIf(IsTrue(IsRelativeOf(Record(3,"I"),%INDI%)) and IsTrue(RelationCode(Record(3,"I"),%INDI%,SPOUSE_END,1) = 0) and

You have = Text(TextIf(IsTrue(IsRelativeOf(Record(5,"I"),%INDI%)) and IsTrue(RelationCode(Record(5,"I"),%INDI%,SPOUSE_START,1) = 0),"P","") . TextIf(IsTrue(IsRelativeOf(Record(5,"I"),%INDI%)) and

Hi Jane I've tried this, my father is id 5 and mother is id 6. I get all 'p' if I enter the code below? =Text(TextIf(IsTrue(IsRelativeOf(Record(5,"I"),%INDI%)) and