I struggled with the "lumper vs. splitter" idea for ages, then one day, the light bulb went on. Some programs like Family Tree Maker have a different way for handling sources where you can load all th

Hi, Dennis -- Re: your comment: I am a hobbyist, too, but I'm also a fallen-away academic and a researcher, so I can't help digging deeper into things. I bring my love of jigsaw puzzles and logic puzz

Whichever template you decide to use with FH7, if you're considering purchasing Evidence Explained, I'd like to offer some information about EE so you can make an informed decision about whether to bu

Hello, Paul -- If you haven't already, I encourage you to join the FHUG forum, search for previous discussions, and start a new one. I took a fiction workshop once where everyone read drafts and then

If you're importing files from other programs to FH, don't forget the FHUG forum and the articles in the Knowledge Base: https://fhug.org.uk/kb/kb-article/importing-to-family-historian/ Jan Murphy pac

I highly recommend using the 'reverse order' trick posted by John Hanson, suggested by Simon Orde, while cleaning up place names. I recommend NOT putting street addresses into place names. (I am curre

Terry -- I have Evidentia but haven't used it extensively -- I have been on a 'hunting and gathering' phase and need to stop and analyze what I've found and get it into Family Historian. Evidentia is

If I've given anyone the impression that I think Mills is right and everyone else is wrong, I apologize. That wasn't my intention. I only wanted to point out that if you are taking a course like the o

Bob -- it is confusing! Because journalists and historians use the word one way, and Mills' system uses it a different way, and if I make reference to anthropology, you get even more collisions of wor

Adrian -- I'm going to be very persnickity here but bear with me while I clarify 1) Calling your 90 year old mother "a primary source" is journalism usage. In ESM's evidence anaylysis map, primary ref

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 17: O

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 in

Trevor -- Am I hearing you correctly? You feel the Evidence Analysis Process Map and the kind of source analysis that Cole Valley Girl needed to do in her example are "out of date and waste oodles of

We're often told that the reason we should cite sources is that we can find them again if we need to, or point other researchers to the same source. That's valuable, but there's an even more compellin