I would advise against splitting your tree. Other users have done that and later wished they had not. Perhaps if you could explain why you are having trouble finding outstanding information we

Yasmin under no circumstances would I ever split my tree. All names I have are connected whether direct or not there is a connection. If you want to split your tree keep it as a separate tree which

Not sure if it’s what you’re after but I copied a section of my main tree and created a new project with it via Gedcom. That way I could concentrate on those particular lines whilst still having

Good Morning My Grandfather was one of 13 children over the years I have collected information on their marriages, their children, and their children’s marriages etc. My file is now becoming a

There is another group offering FH support; The FH User Group. The FHUG that has Forums and a Knowledge Base. See https://www.fhug.org.uk/ The Knowledge Base has much advice such as Importing to

Thanks Mike. Have now successfully converted Co. to County and started refreshing geocoding: it's looking a lot better. Move from Legacy to FH: had you anything particular in mind? I was planning

Welcome Teresa, Yes, to get the best geocoding does often need some tweaking to place names. The reason the Search and Replace plugin does not work is that the Name of a Place record is not a Place

I recently imported a GEDCOM from Legacy to FH and am just getting used to it. My GEDCOM was one covering most of the USA Gothams (part of a One-Name Study). I didn't have any places geocoded in

Miriam, firstly what we are discussing is a fault in FH for which there is no ideal solution until CP fix it. There are several ways to get a Note into a Narrative report sentence as discussed in

Thank you to all for your suggestions. The reason I put the date in a different place is because I get sick of it being at the beginning ALL the time - especially if the sentence is short, with more

I want the point ability since I want to locate very closely where ancestors lived, traveled, etc. One task I have that I have not yet found a suitable platform is to be able to map very specific

Is the basic problem that geocoding "puts a pin in a map"? Places are areas, whilst addresses are much closer to points. If you want to check who lived in a house through a period of time, or who were

Of course it is the West (East or North) Riding of Yorkshire but for address purposes on FH West, East or North simplifies things. Writing letters in those far off days people simply wrote

Victor Sheffield has never been in West Yorkshire. It was in the West Riding of Yorkshire until reorganisation. Yorkshire is challenging from a geographic standpoint. Formerly three ridings and an

When I enter a place name in England I always give the place name it's full name. When it copmes to county names I always stick to the ancien boundary names. What we see today are known

Mike, I was thinking that if we use place field like Address, City, County, State, Country that we re dependent on properly placed commas for missing data. I know you can't speak for FH but it would

Yes, the FHUG Knowledge Base ‘Working with Places and Addresses’ explains similar options: https://fhug.org.uk/kb/kb-article/working-with-places-and-addresses-for-new-users/ Family Historian

If I read the GECOM 5.5.1 and the new 7.0.0 it seems that the place should contain a location like city, county, state, country. The address field should contain the entire address, multi line address

Miriam, this and related problems were discussed 10 days ago in the FHUG Forums under ‘Fact definitions & unwanted carriage returns’. See

FH (especially with help of the numerous plugins) offers indeed a multitude of ways to implement users ideas, wishes etc. For me this means that I've to ask myself why would I want what?". My answers