If you know that they died before a certain date (e.g. wife shown as widow on a census), is there any merit in using the Before option on the range tab of the date entry pop-up to reduce the number of

Re Bill's experience with ashes being interred years after burial. That's a good argument against a general use of deaths estimated from "burial" date. I'd only say that in the context of the UK,

I do not make estimates for peoples deaths because in some cases they can be completely wrong. I have numerous relatives who were not buried until many years (as many as 21

The only time that I concoct a death date is when I have indirect evidence for it, such as a burial, when I'll estimate a death date based on the burial date minus - waves hand and thinks of a number.

Yes, to be honest, that is my take on it too, I have no plans to insert a fake event, but I will start to find as many as I can, I am retired now so have more time to research them properly. I just

In my opinion it's not a good idea to fake death dates. I leave mine blank. In most cases I do have burial dates. Unfortunately some websites do not recognise burial dates, such as FTDNA trees, which

Good Evening, I have a few hundred individuals in my file with no death recorded, how do other people handle this? If you do not have a date of death, do you leave it blank or input an estimated death

I would agree with Mike - the crucial bits are the sourcing and citations for the bits that go together to make up the fact that X is the GG-uncle (or whatever) of Y, not the end result. That takes

None of those fragments of information are sources nor do they need specific citations. They are ‘facts’ derived from several other source citations. e.g. The relationship between George and

I have a couple of instances that I’m not sure how to provide citations. 1. If I have a complete tree in FH well documented but in writing a report I want to say George, Fred’s Gr Gr Uncle.

Found it - great Thanks very much Stuart On 26/01/2022 18:29, Mike Tate wrote:

I’m not talking about the FH toolbar that you have described but the MyHeritage toolbar on the dark gey line below. You may have to expand the FH Web Search Window by closing the docked Property

Hello Mike No I am in Somerset in the UK. I'm sorry to say I am having a bit of difficulty identifying where the option you mention is located. In the corner of the window

Hi Stuart, I guess you may be based in Alsace? MyHeritage is probably setting the language based on your location. In the top right corner, there is an option to set the language. Does that solve

Hi When I hover the cursor over the link associated with an individual (the small green icon) I get the Find my Past and My Heritage web search matches. The Find my Past links

Good morning Mike and thank you so much for the information and advice. The problem is now fixed and I am up and running correctly. really great to know specialist is available. Thanks Bill

The problem with hints is due to reverting to FH V6.2 ~ DO NOT USE THIS VERSION WITH YOUR FH V7 PROJECTS! I suspect you have used an installation file named such as install_fh6.2.7_dl.exe Whereas

Hi I purchased Family Historian 6.2 and installed it on my desk top in 2021, I was subsequently allowed to update it for free to version 7. However since then I have obtained a new computer and

It works! Thank you very much!

Linda, Forgot to include this: GedSite does support FH functions. However, it does not support all of them, just the more common ones. You can read about GedSite's support for FH data references