Many thanks Mike, I'm using method 1 and I've found it on the source now. I've followed the user guide so I've carried out the editing too! Best regards, Julie

Hi Forum. I'm looking for advice on how to 'weight' birth sources in degree of importance. Of course not all will/may exist in my list below, and some will contain lesser info that others. But I'm

I wish to align my FH project with a MyHeritage project that is rather larger. Please tell me, if I seek to transfer a GEDCOM file, how does FH resolve large numbers of duplications?

David "Importance" can mean so many things! In terms of reliability, the nearer a record of the birth / the closer the relative, the more reliable (less likely to being

Hi David, Your list is quite rational although early Census records may be more contemporary than later Marriage, Death, or Burial records. In the Sources For yellow citations panel use the black

Hi Geoffrey FH has a File > Merge/Compare File command, but there are many pitfalls in using it successfully. There are options for automatically synchronising duplicate records (not just

Thank you, Mike. For the avoidance of doubt, will the procedure in the link you gave avoid or help to avoid the disaster of which you warned? Yours aye, Geoffrey

Yes, it advises that you import the MyHeritage GEDCOM into FH as a New Project. If you have Media that needs to migrate into FH then use the MyHeritage Family Tree Builder rather than the Online

I would say any marriage certificate would be before death certificate. These would be more important than census details which you can think of as being supplementary to the certification. This is

Whether a Marriage or Death certificate gives better information depends on a number of factors. The following refers to the UK. Many early Marriage Certificates simply say of Full Age which only

Whilst I will agree with Mike on the theory behind his list from having looked at so many certificates over the years there are pitfalls with all certificates I remember helping at the FindMyPast

Mike Only the modern death certificates gave place of birth and date. Perhaps it started from the 1960's. I have just checked a 1969 certificate that gives date and place of birth

I have a death certificate that shows how questionable the data on a certificate can be. This decreased is shown as having been widowed and having no kids. In fact, he was still married and had five

Argh! "This decreased" should of course be "the deceased". Auto spell checking isn't always helpful!

I agree death certificates can easily be wrong, my husband incorrectly recorded his mother's maiden name, I only found out when doing his tree and we still have not corrected it, although we have been

I also agree with John. The information on the certificate or printout is only as good as the information that was given to the informant. And that information may not have been right in the

I’ve got a couple of very dodgy certificates. The first is a death certificate where the lodger was the informant and was five years out with the age. That caused a brick wall which was finally

When I started family history over 30 years ago I was told to ideally confirm each piece of evidence from 3 sources before trusting it totally. I have always found that excellent advice

Pauline One of the first things I look at when doing my advice sessions these days is the number of days between birth and registration – 42 is always a good indicator that the birth date might be

John, My list was not meant to be definitive, but simply that each Source document must be judged on its merit. That is often governed by how contemporary the details are with respect to the event