Martyn, Please do persevere - FH is more sophisticated than Generations, and can be highly customised, but using different techniques, that I am sure you will come to use. If you have not discovered it already, then do join (it is free) the Family Historian User Group (FHUG) at http://www.fhug.org.uk/cgi-bin/index.cgi It is full of advice, expert forums, free utilities, etc, etc - it is run by Jane. Do refer to the Help within FH via its Help buttons. Do take the time to work through the book "Getting the Most From Family Historian 4" via the menubar Help. Answering some of your points... FH has a number of different Record types (Individual, Family, Source, Note, Multimedia, Repository, etc) in accordance with the GEDCOM standard. Each of these Record types has its own unique Record ID. To navigate down the Records you usually start with an Individual and in the Property Box open the yellow Source pane. Particularly on the Facts tab (but also the All tab) select any item and if it has a linked Source it appears in the Source pane. Click the yellow triangular Go To Source Record button to open the Source Record. >From there you can open its Repository Record and Multimedia Records if any. To navigate up the Records, first select any Record (say a Source Record), then use menubar View > Record Links. That will list all Records that link to the selected Record, and you can Go To any one of them. Regards, Mike Tate -----Original Message----- From: family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of martynpeart@iprimus.com.au Sent: 01 March 2012 09:47 To: family-historian-users@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FHU] Source fields Jane, Thank you very much for taking the time to try to help me. I'm sure what you say about the poor gedcom created by Generations is quite correct but unfortunately I'm stuck with it i.e that's where about 15 years worth of all my sources are documented. Clearly from what you say FH does not have the same array of source fields that I had in Generations and I think you are telling me that I cannot create new ones. As I indicated in my original email, I have not been using Family Historian long enough to have mastered its intricacies as yet. I have looked at the log files for the gedcom import but it really doesn't mean anything to me. I will have to do a lot more reading. I will try what you suggest when I have done enough reading to understand exactly what you mean. When I open the RECORDS window and look at the sources, a large number are listed as "unnamed sources" and when I expand any one of these I get a bit more information about the source but at this stage I don't understand how from there I can identify the individual and fact about that individual to which each of these sources refers! Alongside the source in this same window is a number in the column headed Record id. I haven't yet worked out what this number refers to as clearly it is not the identification number of the individual to whom the record refers. I'm sorry to appear so dumb but I am very new to this program (3 days!). I am sure that with perseverance I will be able to master FH but at this stage. I am really stumbling around as the software is much more complicated than my old Generations program although obviously it has many more capabilities. Martyn -----Original Message----- From: Jane Taubman Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 5:58 PM To: family-historian-users@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FHU] Source fields On 29 February 2012 02:21, <martynpeart@iprimus.com.au> wrote: > Can someone please advise if somewhere in Family Historian there is a a > range of source fields that can be chosen or if I can create my own > source > fields for each source type Generations creates really poor gedcom when you export and includes a lot of invalid gedcom. The standard does not support the extra fields, but you can use Labelled Text to tag the items you are looking for using for example Qtr: 1 District: Ilminister in the Where in Source field or any other Note field. If you check the exception report for the import you should be able to see if all your extra fields have been brought in as UDF (undefined data fields) or dropped completely, if they are UDFs you will be able to see them using the All Tab on the Sources If they have been dropped as completely invalid it's sometimes possible to write a script (or use a text editor) to convert them as needed. -- Jane. Jane Taubman | www.rjt.org.uk | www.taubman.org.uk |www.fhug.org.uk