Whether a Marriage or Death certificate gives better information depends on a number of factors. The following refers to the UK. Many early Marriage Certificates simply say of Full Age which only

I would say any marriage certificate would be before death certificate. These would be more important than census details which you can think of as being supplementary to the certification. This is

Yes, it advises that you import the MyHeritage GEDCOM into FH as a New Project. If you have Media that needs to migrate into FH then use the MyHeritage Family Tree Builder rather than the Online

Thank you, Mike. For the avoidance of doubt, will the procedure in the link you gave avoid or help to avoid the disaster of which you warned? Yours aye, Geoffrey

Hi Geoffrey FH has a File > Merge/Compare File command, but there are many pitfalls in using it successfully. There are options for automatically synchronising duplicate records (not just

Hi David, Your list is quite rational although early Census records may be more contemporary than later Marriage, Death, or Burial records. In the Sources For yellow citations panel use the black

David "Importance" can mean so many things! In terms of reliability, the nearer a record of the birth / the closer the relative, the more reliable (less likely to being

I wish to align my FH project with a MyHeritage project that is rather larger. Please tell me, if I seek to transfer a GEDCOM file, how does FH resolve large numbers of duplications?

Hi Forum. I'm looking for advice on how to 'weight' birth sources in degree of importance. Of course not all will/may exist in my list below, and some will contain lesser info that others. But I'm

Many thanks Mike, I'm using method 1 and I've found it on the source now. I've followed the user guide so I've carried out the editing too! Best regards, Julie

Hi Julie, It depends on whether your have set Ancestral Sources to use Method 1 (the default) or Method 2. But assuming Method 1 then that Auto Text is added to the Source record Text From Source

Hi everyone, I'm using Ancestral Sources to enter Census entries to FH. Can someone tell me where the "Text" element transfers to in FH as I can't see it? Its probably really simple once you

Thanks Mike, I shall take a look at this. Regards Jon

Thanks, Mike. Although my uploads to Ancestry etc are pretty basic and purely to enable any DNA matches to get some idea of who's who, I think I'll get the plug-in and be on the safe side. Thanks

Hi Brian, Yes, if your trees are uncomplicated and you only want to use Ancestry DNA then File > Import/Export > Export > GEDCOM File will often be OK. As you say, you must remember to choose UTF-8

Jon, There is a lot of advice and Linux FH users on the FHUG website. The FHUG Knowledge Base has Family Historian V6 & Ancestral Sources V5 on Crossover, PlayOnLinux/Mac &

Hello, I'm a little puzzled by this. I have uploaded several small Gedcom trees to Ancestry DNA, but I've never (knowingly!) installed any plug-ins. My version of FH is 6.2.7 - which i think is the

Thank you David, I will explore your scenario further. I really want to go back to using FH. Cheers. Jon

I have successfully been running 99.?%? of fh functionality on Linux for almost two and a half years (specifically Lubuntu 16.04 and then 18.04 with Wine 4.0.3 - emulating Windows 7) Wine 5.0 has

Hi Jon I have an Apple mac and have been using Crossover (which uses Wine) for a number of years with great success. I've found it very easy to install and use and FH works extremely well on