12th Feb 2011

U3A Family History Group Programme for 16th Feb 2011

• Welcome to New Members

• Proposed Programme

• Comment

• This Month – Family History Databases

12th Feb 2011

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”