If an unbaptised person died it was thought that he/she would not be received into heaven: so if a newborn or unbaptised child was thought to be unlikely to survive, a fairly

James Without knowing the source of both here are a number of possibilities 1 – as others have said a private and then church baptism 2 – Different churches 3 – one from parish records and

James Another scenario is where several children are baptised at the same time (ie "job lot"). If this is the case for the 1814 one, it could be that the parents decided to do the

I have found similar anomalies. It has often been there has been a birth, christening and death in quick succession. The next year a birth and christening uses the same name as was fairly common in

I have an example of a repeated baptism here: https://genealogy.stackexchange.com/q/15307/6485. Was the first baptism private and the second simply a record of the child being received? There’s

Hi everybody, Is it best to upgrade to FH7 before migrating to a new laptop - or to migrate to a new laptop and then upgrade to FH7? Any advice will be much appreciated

Not a technical problem, but a record source, I have come across two records of christening for the same person on two different occasions, one in 1813 and another in 1814, has anyone else found

Mike, I thank you for your advice. I have managed to use the =RelationPool() function as a column in the Records view, and that is extremely useful. However, I'm struggling to find how to include the

Thank you, Jan, that's a helpful suggestion. Paul Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone but not so smart as to usefully auto-correct the typos from my large fingers 🙂

Hello, Paul -- If you haven't already, I encourage you to join the FHUG forum, search for previous discussions, and start a new one. I took a fiction workshop once where everyone read drafts and

Thank you, everyone, for these thoughtful responses. They will help me to know how to proceed. I think your suggestion, Lorna, is a good one. I think I shall endeavor towards that direction for

Quite possibly it's not telling you anything useful at all - it depends on how you work. To try to recap - inside Family Historian, there are Media Records that are linked to files out there, usually

Thank you all. These are the sorts of options that I need to know about in more detail. You are right to ask "what will work for me?" At this stage, I'm trying to better assimilate what information is

I am trying to get to grips with plugin. : ‘files in media folder and not linked to project’. I have 172 media items That all in a grey type.(I have over 1000 media images in my project.) I

Mike, “Some use very formally structured Source Citations based on the Elizabeth Shown Mills book ‘Evidence Explained’.“ should read “formally structured Source Citations based on the

That hinges on what you consider ‘best practice’ to mean. Some users just record minimal Source Citations for key events. Others create multiple facts from one source document and add the same

... Yes, I sympathize - I would only say that one person's best practice is another's poison. Further, your own idea of best practice will change over time, I guarantee. Nothing beats just trying a

Thank you ! Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone but not so smart as to usefully auto-correct the typos from my large fingers 🙂

Hi Mike Thanks for this. It's what I've done so far, to be honest. I've been getting over-faced by the range of information when I'm really looking for best practice. I guess that I'll just have to

I’ll add that (contrary to what Simon Orde said in a recent bulletin) we haven’t completely updated the KnowledgeBase for V7 yet – we’re still working on it. Most of the advice there is still