Mike, quite a lot of the genealogy world (also Historian and other academics) use ‘citation’ according to e.g. the ESM definition: “Citations are statements in which we identify our source

I think that part of the problem may be that the term "citation" has two different meanings. To people who are adept at citing sources in written documents, I think that I'm right in saying that the

Paul, The concepts of Source and Citation in GEDCOM FH terms are sometimes different from user’s perceived definitions of source and citation. Your definition of a citation being a form of words

Ancestral Sources is a companion program for FH that helps to create sources and also the facts derived from them (for common source types e.g. BBMDB and Census). It works with V7 and can use generic

Thank you, CVG Where does the oft-cited Ancestral Sources fit in, please? Best Paul Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone but not so smart as to usefully auto-correct the typos from my large

A source is a historical record – the source of some information. As you say, it needs to be clearly and unambiguously identified. A citation is a link from a fact/assertion to a source. It may

Hi Geoff, Certainly, consistency is an important consideration for Source Citations. I was fascinated that your description focusses on Census records yet your aide-memoir notice does not mention

As a newcomer to FH but not to referencing primary sources, I'm not able to see how the distinction is being drawn between sources and citations in FH. To my mind, the source is the evidential record

I've got a T shirt for this one too! Personal factors come in here. Some users seem to not worry about sources at all or, if they do, their system is often inconsistent. That’s the way I

FH Project (Medium & Full) Backups include all subfolders of the Project .fh_data folder so the answer is ‘Yes, the former’.

Hi Mike Does the backup include subfolders of the Media folder or just the Media folder. I would assume the former? I use Media (just for pictures of people) >Census >Birth >Death

It does not matter where the image starts and all options are feasible. What matters is where it ends up. Both AS and FH allow the image to be anywhere and have the option to copy it into the Project

John, To answer your last question, you enter extra commas without any names. e.g. ‘ , , England’ There are tools in FH to extract say the 3rd Part of a Place name. It is sometimes useful

I always leave mine in the folder it is not doing any harm and is there if anything went wrong with FH Get BlueMail for Android On 26 Feb 2021, at 15:05, "h.phillips4 via groups.io"

H In AS (i'm using 7.2.1), when you select the image for use in the Image viewer, set your preferences, then click Save, you get a dialogue were you are asked if you want to use the default media

All my previous census images have been scanned in and I have used AS to enter into FH. Now I've downloaded some and they are in my download folder. Question? To enter using AS into FH should they

Can I ask what is the significance of the "parts" column in the placename list widow in maps. I have worked out that commas will seperate the record eg Biggleswade Bedfordshire England will all appear

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly Mike. I will definitely read up about the different methods of adding sources and I will get back to you. Just to explain how I got to this stage with so few

Hi Rob, The number of rows in a Result Set is always shown in the bottom right border of Query Window as ‘Records in Result Set:’ The number of Individual records and Family records is always

Is there an easy way to "count" the number of rows (records) in the Records Window (tabs) or in a Result Set?