I am finding this discussion very interesting and reflects many features of a brick wall it took me years to solve. A woman in my family tree built a whole new life for herself in order to drag

There are many times when we are analysing the records we use that we could say that someone was being economical with the truth. Providing proof and discussing the reason why we have put more weight

Jan - I'm fairly certain that you and I would be in 99% complete agreement about how to process a particular source of information. I agree wholly with Thomas Jones and delight in Judy Russell's

Before I address this, I'd like to drop in one more link to Dr. Thomas W. Jones' article Perils of Source Snobbery from OnBoard 18 (May 2012). Note what Elizabeth Shown Mills says in Quicklesson

Philosophy warning:- I've always thought that there was a little more to it than that, Jan. As Mike says, the Primary / Secondary attribute sits on the link between "fact" and source-record, so it

I don’t consider the FH Assessments of Primary evidence and Secondary evidence as applicable to the Source as a whole. Instead, they apply to the Fact and the Citation with respect to the

Jan...so helpful. Thank you. I must admit that, while I am familiar with a lot on the course, being introduced to GPS and the FAN family as examples of formal, critical approach has made the effort

Thanks so much to everyone who chimed in for your help. I'm still experimenting to see what works best for me but at least I now have some clue about what I'm doing. This is an amazing group.

Hello Terry -- A couple of points. A) You may already be aware that the Strathclyde course (and Family Historian itself) uses the term "primary" and "secondary" in a way that differs from the usage

See below If they are to believed they are on the case. Seems they finally believe me that messages sent to someone do not always go into their INBOX but reside, hidden (cause they would not

Terry, it was a brick wall I’d had for nearly 18 years, so you can imagine how happy I was when a chink in the wall appeared.

The Identification-of-Caroline-Ellen-Brown.pdf is interesting, valuable as an example of the fundamentals, but also in that it includes such a diverse range of techniques. Thank you for sharing. I

To be accurate Mike, most people will have to wait until Beta testing ends – and Beta testers will be forbidden from sharing information with non-Beta testers.

@Terry, Calico Pie never issue product details in advance as they would be commercially sensitive. We will all have to wait until FH V7 beta testing begins.

Currently, I only create proof arguments/proof statement when the route to an assertion has not been simple. See for example http://www.colevalleygirl.co.uk/tree/g1/p51.htm#i51 or

Yes, Mike. I followed on from the title, but after pressing the send button, did wonder about the ambiguity. I wonder what Source Citation Templates means in detail. Will these be customisable?

A good convention if a woman's maiden name is not known is to use the husband's name in square brackets thus [Braid] Andrew Braid

@Mike. Are there any clear descriptions as to what will be in FH7? I too am tidying and checking things in my research. Good fun but quite labour intensive. If there are tools that would make certain

Hi Welcome to the group. As other as said always use maiden name, after all some women marry more than once so will have different surnames at different points in their lives. If I don’t know the