On Tue, Feb 4, 2020, 09:40 Nina Jenkins <... ideally confirm each piece of evidence from 3 sources before trusting it totally. Even there, we have to be sensible about it - it does say, "ideally" afte

:-) He can't be the only one to have done this because - for whatever reason - I do occasionally find marriages entries in PRs that are complete apart from signatures. Obviously all filled in beforeha

<uhkh3tsccmz9@...> wrote: We have a (former?) registrar in the WDYTYA? Forum and *if* I recall correctly, the way he puts it, is that no independent proof of identity etc is required -

Ah, but the sensible thing to do would be to leave the entry unsigned (or unmarked) so that if someone doesn't turn up or there's an objection, then it's not actually a valid entry. And I have seen an

I would have thought that the core shell, being, as you say, a fundamental part of the Windows User Interface, would still be subject to bug fixes. Otherwise, that's a nice channel of attack for the b

Ooops. Sorry - I ran two sentences together in my reading of your mail. Adrian

Because it's so obscure, Associated Person isn't in the normal user interface. You have to bring up the property box for the individual, click the All tab, right click the person's name (i.e. the top

Yes, the problem with the Associated person link is that it appears in very, very few places. I have it set to appear on a custom tab on the individual's property box, and have it in a text scheme for

It's perfectly possible to add all the relevant data to an "image" as Metadata. I can, and do, add a load of stuff to the IPTC Metadata of a JPG. Not least because it might sit for ages in a folder be

For me, the most important thing there is the understanding - actually writing the citation in any specific format is of lesser importance, providing you've reached that understanding and have stored

And to tweak what Lorna said - if I run off reports, I seldom print the images linked to the source records - my reports are long enough as it is. But the one type of image (in my files) that gets bot

and Absolutely - I seem to end up squeezing more and more text into the publication part of the Source Record - and also into the Author part. Thus a will in a book of copy-wills is recorded as Author

Generally speaking, Mike, you may say that, I couldn't possibly comment! More to the point, while it's possible to screenshot baptisms etc, it sure ain't feasible to screen shot a multipage will witho

No - the problem is that you can't see the whole of the page without shrinking the document down too small for legibility of the text. A PDF print just shows what visible on your screen - it can't acc

Shamefacedly - I'd forgotten that Date Warnings query was there. But be warned that neither the query nor the plug-in are built to cope with every possible circumstance. For instance, from possibly fa

Hardly! I'd get very annoyed if I'd used a family photo in FH, decided I didn't want it any more in FH, so deleted the media record to find that it deleted the original family photo as well! It actual

Depends how you do it. I drop all my images downloaded from websites straight into my project folder, so it's one copy only. Yes, *my* scans of family photos sit outside my project folder and I manual

I have many, many, Residence facts that have nothing to do with censuses - Residence can be recorded in parish registers, on vital certificates, immigration documents. Personally I always record *both

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 is,

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 "It d