Double click Mary Ann Smallwood to view her Property Box. In the Spouse area use the small up and down arrows to reorder her spouses/partners into the correct order.

Hello All, One of my collateral ancestors, Mary Ann Smallwood (1814-1884), married Thomas Clarke Bretnor in Birmingham in 1835. The couple had no children, but Mary Ann subsequently

In the focus window at the top left there is a 'more' sign prompt this it will open a menu allowing you to add an alternative name to the primary name and you can choose which to use Get BlueMail for

My interest is in blood lines, so I would have him as David Jones but might generate an aka field and add the ‘David Bloggs’ name there. I would also reference this in my accompanying notes.

David, You are probably aware relation Addresses to the Place is already in other software and I agree it needs to be part of FH. I have new migrants from Rootsmagic who pull down the Address list

In FH you can do both, and record the Alternate Name with a citation as advised in the FHUG Knowledge Base: ‘Recording Children with Foster/Adoptive Parents’ ‘How to Handle People With

I stick to the birth name. At the top right of the focus window is a + sign or does it say more (I am not at my computer so can't check) I prompt this and it opens a menu which let's you add extra

In an analogous situation, I’ve recorded my sister with two sets of parents, one set by birth (mother and unknown father) and one set by adoption (mother and subsequent husband).

Within FH I tend to view a "place" as an "area" on a map, whilst an "address" is a "point" on a map. "The Ship was sunk in the Bristol Channel (Area - place), It's wreck is marked by the RMS xxxxx

Thanks for all the repies, fascinating and in the scenario I explained at the start the two families approach definitely works well ( and I note puts a handy little blank box in the chart which makes

I’ve got a few people who died at sea but for whom I have no exact location. Ancestry trees only have a field for location and don’t distinguish between address and place. There seem to be no

As Mike says, nothing has materially changed in ages in those definitions. IIRC, the Place is supposed to be a Jurisdiction and the Address is a Postal Address. The problem is that an exact following

Thanks, Mike. There were many so I deleted all with zero links using the Named List method. Regards Doug Sent from Outlook From: family-historian@groups.io <family-historian@groups.io> on behalf of

David, I religiously remove superfluous address information from the place entity and did this since the feature was released in Rootsmagic 4 maybe 14 years ago. I believe it makes for more concise

David, Although given better structural definitions in GEDCOM v7.0 the concepts of ‘Place’ and ‘Address’ have not changed in GEDCOM specifications for decades. What is more important is

Doug, 1. Whether they are a problem is somewhat subjective. They do no harm, especially if they have no text or 0 Links, but they consume a small amount of space and may be a distraction. 2.

Thanks for the clarification. I am not definitely going to do this, but reading the information on Gedcom 7 from the LDS I think it is implying that ‘Place’ is more like a legal entity,

Hello I am in the process of cleaning my FH project, and I notice that in the Records window for 'Notes' there are many records with no Description and/or links = 0' 1. Are these a problem? 2. What

Thank-you Nick. I suspected it was to do with the recording method, but didn't know where to change it. Regards Doug Sent from Outlook From: family-historian@groups.io <family-historian@groups.io> on

Doug, Have you migrated your AS settings from old PC to new PC (as you presumably did for FH)? See FHUG Knowledge Base ‘Ancestral Sources Migration