Quite possibly it's not telling you anything useful at all - it depends on how you work. To try to recap - inside Family Historian, there are Media Records that are linked to files out there, usually

Thank you all. These are the sorts of options that I need to know about in more detail. You are right to ask "what will work for me?" At this stage, I'm trying to better assimilate what information is

I am trying to get to grips with plugin. : ‘files in media folder and not linked to project’. I have 172 media items That all in a grey type.(I have over 1000 media images in my project.) I

Mike, “Some use very formally structured Source Citations based on the Elizabeth Shown Mills book ‘Evidence Explained’.“ should read “formally structured Source Citations based on the

That hinges on what you consider ‘best practice’ to mean. Some users just record minimal Source Citations for key events. Others create multiple facts from one source document and add the same

... Yes, I sympathize - I would only say that one person's best practice is another's poison. Further, your own idea of best practice will change over time, I guarantee. Nothing beats just trying a

Thank you ! Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone but not so smart as to usefully auto-correct the typos from my large fingers 🙂

Hi Mike Thanks for this. It's what I've done so far, to be honest. I've been getting over-faced by the range of information when I'm really looking for best practice. I guess that I'll just have to

I’ll add that (contrary to what Simon Orde said in a recent bulletin) we haven’t completely updated the KnowledgeBase for V7 yet – we’re still working on it. Most of the advice there is still

Welcome Paul, I am not sure there will be one single User Manual capable of satisfying the needs of all users. Calico Pie have produced a “Getting the Most From Family Historian” user guide for

Chris, regarding AS under Wine on Linux, have you consulted the FHUG Knowledge Base and Forums where there is advice on achieving

Hi I bought FH7 a couple of months ago, have had an initial play, have been monitoring this list, and have explored the FHUG site. It’s clearly the software solution that I need to use, after

Kathy, You will have seen from other replies that it is not necessary to use Ancestral Sources, and some people don’t use it at all. FH is indeed a stand alone program which will do

I very much agree with David Wilkinson's method. I grab a good jpeg of the census page, yellow-highlight the person or family using Irfanview. I then import it as a citation (and source) to the FH

Hi Kathy et al, I do not, cannot, use Ancestral Sources. I manage everything within FamilyHistorian alone. I kicked Microsoft into touch when I retired - too much money, apart from

I agree, Pools are brilliant! The only thing that had me scratching my head, was that I had about 25 Lund's in Pool 1, that weren't directly related to me. I eventually found that they were linked

Welcome Kathy, To be pedantic, Ancestral Sources (AS) is a companion Windows program installed alongside Family Historian (FH), whereas Plugins are small text scripts installed within FH. It is

Pools. Brilliant! I never knew this facility existed and I've actually read the full manual for FH6. Having just now set up a "Pool" column in the records window I've discovered lots of pools with

In my humble opinion it is a personal choice. I do not use Ancestral Sources, I did look into it but decided it was not for me partly because I was used to managing without such a tool being

Ancestral Sources is great I use it all the time. As an example when it comes to census details you put all the names under one image and all the names are linked to that image. If you did