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U3A Family History Group Programme for 16th Feb 2011. Welcome to New Members Proposed Programme Comment This Month – Family History Databases. This Month – Family History Databases. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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12th Feb 2011
U3A Family History Group Programme for 16th Feb 2011
• Welcome to New Members
• Proposed Programme
• Comment
• This Month – Family History Databases
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This Month – Family History Databases
• A presentation / demonstration on the use of Family History Databases. The main example will be based on my use of “Family Historian”.
• But first :- • Where does a storage system fit in your research• Getting started with a computer based system• Adding new data• Introducing photos• Manipulating the Family History Tree• Comments on other Family History Databases – Lynn Spicer• Comments on a simple Computer based system – Janice Jackson
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What we need from any Databases
Census Data
BMD information
Historical records
Photos
Letters
Bibles & Diaries
Parish Records
Paper SystemsBooks and Folders
Home ComputerBased Systems
Good Access & Retrieval of Information
Correlation of Data
Presentation of Data
Ancestry & Genes Reunited
RecollectionsCertificates
Web Based Systems
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Comparison of Family History Databases (Genlinks Genealogy Help www.jaydax.co.uk/genlinks/software.html)
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Family History Databases (Genlinks Genealogy Help) www.jaydax.co.uk/genlinks/software.html
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Picture of “Victor Elworthy at Hole farm, Lapford Devon – Lucy (my mother) & Lily”. Who is Victor Elworthy?
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Compare pictures of Lucy & Lily on their bikes for which you have known dates ~1932
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Live Demonstrate of how to add Data and Photo’s to Family Historian
• Bring up the “Taylor Family Tree” and display the “Bragg Family Chart”
• Research the 1901 / 1911 census data for “Victor Elworthy”
• Store the census data – add the information to the database
• Add the photo to the Chart
• Manipulate the Chart
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Upload a “Gedcom” file (from Family Historian) to Ancestry.co.uk. Look for the file in Project :-“Taylor_Family_History_v3”. Look in Folder:- “Taylor_Family_History_v3.fh_data”
Taylor_Family_History_v3.ged
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Adding a second MarriageSecond “Spouce” can be added by clicking on second “tab”
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Open Family Historian – Click on “Project Name”
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Taylor Family Project Home Page displays 3 generations and a Data entry window
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The “Records” section provides a list of all your entries
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Important to list your “Sources” of information
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Open Bragg Family Chart from list of “Saved” charts; under the “View” entry on Header Bar
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Expand the chart to enable sections to be examined
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Search the 1911 census for “Victor Elworthy in Devon”–no success. Search for “Elworthy in Devon”
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Search for a Marriage between the May & Elworthy families
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Maria May married George Elworthy in 1897 in London
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Find George F. Elworthy in 1901 census; no sign of Maria?
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Add Marriage data to Maria May – link Source and Census data – add children
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Record details in “Facts” section – link images to “Multimedia”
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Manipulate Diagram to obtain “best fit” of children
Click on button
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Insert Photo of Victor Elworthy using “Media” icon and “Link to Face”