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Clan History

Welcome to Clan-History, your gateway to the rich tapestry of our family's legacy.

Knowledge Home

Documentation, references, and best practices for clan-history.com

Mods & Features

🏴 Heritage Flags

Heritage country flag overlays on person headings

  • 490+ place name mappings, native language variants
  • Geocode fallback via GPS coordinates
  • Custom images — coats of arms, landscapes, cityscapes
  • Per-person flag overrides
  • Most-specific place wins — Yorkshire beats England

Flag Code Reference →

✅ Data Status & Validation

Multi-level data quality scoring for person records

  • Six quality tiers — Excellent through Unassessed
  • Manual assessment fields and automated scoring
  • Source quality, research links, conflict detection
  • Batch analysis from Admin → Miscellaneous
  • Audit log — who changed what and when
  • Add-on slots: Research Status, DNA Confidence

🔎 Research Suite

Linking, merging, and managing records across platforms

RS – External Links

  • FamilySearch, Ancestry, Geni, WikiTree
  • URL cleaning, quick-launch buttons

RS – Advanced Person Merge

  • Field-level conflict resolution
  • Preserves DSV scores and research data

RS – Advanced Place Merge

  • Reassigns all person and event references

RS – Historic Places

  • Maps historical names to modern equivalents

Network

👥 The Forgotten Kin Network

A collaborative research network for connecting researchers working on shared family lines

Research claim system Shared research flags Cross-site person matching Researcher profiles Brick wall flagging Network activity feed Prevent duplicate work

Genealogy Standardization & Best Practices

Guides for consistent, well-structured data entry across your trees.

👤 Names

  • Birth, married & alias conventions
  • Prefixes, suffixes, titles, name order
  • Diacritics & non-Latin scripts
  • Maiden names across cultures

👪 Families

  • Marriage & partnership conventions
  • Child order & parentage types
  • Blended families & adoptions

🌎 Places

  • City, County, State, Country format
  • Historical vs. modern names
  • Geocoding & OSM integration
  • Boundary changes & renames

⚰ Cemeteries

  • Linking burials to cemetery entries
  • Find A Grave & BillionGraves
  • Photographing headstones

📄 Sources & Repositories

  • Citation templates by record type
  • Repository → source → citation hierarchy
  • Digital vs. original reliability
  • DSV source quality ratings

🌿 Branches

  • Branch naming conventions
  • Assigning persons & families
  • Privacy & access control

🧬 DNA

  • Linking test results to records
  • mtDNA, Y-DNA, autosomal conventions
  • Match confidence levels
  • DSV DNA Confidence add-on

📝 Notes

  • Research vs. narrative vs. private
  • Citing sources within notes
  • Tagging unverified information

📷 Media

  • File naming conventions
  • Linking to persons, families, events
  • Copyright & living person privacy
  • Recommended formats & resolution

⇅ Imports & Exports

  • GEDCOM import best practices
  • Cleaning data before import
  • Merging imported trees
  • Sharing with other researchers

 


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