Edward -- In some of these cases, you seem to be askling about writing a citation when what you really need is a proof summary or proof statement. These links may be or interest: BCG website: Ten-Minu

Mike, We're getting a bit far afield from the census, here, so I'll leave information about the draft records in the forum. Jan Murphy packrat74@... Moderator Pro Tempore genealogy.stackexchange

Mike -- I am about to start a fresh FH database while I search for people in the 1921 census and the 1950 US Federal Census. I have been having computer issues lately so it has been a while since I us

Mike, The "Lookup Missing Census Events" plugin has been quite helpful, but there are many datasets for which one might need to run "Estimated Alive At" which are not yet covered by a Plugin. Could yo

I too have been using FH since 3.0 and have not seen a discount. However, vendors like S&N Genealogy will sweeten the deal by offering a bundle of Family Historian and a collection of "extras". The cu

Good advice! The discussion "Multiple Sources and Records" at Elizabeth Shown Mills' Evidence Explained website may be of interest. https://www.evidenceexplained.com/content/multiple-sources-and-recor

One more thought about collecting source information and the "write as you go" process. If you want an integrated solution, what about using the "Research Notes" feature in FH7 to keep track of the so

Mark, When I attach documents in Family Historian (assuming I'm not using Ancestral Sources for an assist), I use a "source first" workflow (creating the multimedia object, making the source, using Au

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