Do you consider yourself an ‘expert’ at using a piece of computer software? I don’t know that I would label myself an ‘expert’ but instead would label myself an ‘advanced’ user. I consider myself an ‘advanced’ user because there’s always some aspect of the software that I haven’t used.
That was pointed out to me in the April 12th edition of Mondays with Myrt. They were talking about how one could mark parents as ‘proven’, ‘disproven’ or ‘disputed’. One can write notes and attach sources to this fact. I had no idea one could do this.
When I used the software ‘The Master Genealogist,’ I had a fact called ‘ChildParent’. I enter this fact for the child and attach sources that support the identity of the parents. I then share the fact with the parents. I have the fact configured so that it will print a statement about the child’s birth on the narrative report for the president.
Even though this type of fact has been discussed on the RootsMagic forums, I had never heard of the ability to indicate that the parent-child relationship was proven.
This feature is available when one is on the ‘Edit Person’ screen and clicks on the parents.
The sources attached to the ChildParent fact can be copied/pasted to the ‘Parents’ sources. Once at least one source is attached, I can change the ‘Proof’ pull down to Proven.
Now that I know about this feature, I am going to use it on my Ricketts line. I had previously disconnected the parents of John Ricketts (1765-1848) because I had some conflicting information. I just reconnected the original parents and marked them as ‘Disputed’.
I’m thankful to always be learning. I’m also thankful for the myriad of ways I can continue to learn about family history research.