For importing from another program, chappie on the User Group puts a lot of work into getting the best possible import into Family Historian from other programs so it really would benefit reading the relevant section here
http://www.fhug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=how_to:index
at the bottom of the page
I agree the import instructions look complicated which is not what you want when starting new software but I think that's the nature of the beast when you're trying to migrate various proprietary formats.
Yes, the Narrative report can get very repetitive but the various residence and 0occupation facts can be grouped together with a date range so you'd just have e.g.
From 1839 to 1901 he lived in Liverpool
From 1856 to 1870 he was a Dock Labourer
And, as opposed to smudwhisk, I like Ancestral Sources 
I think Beeonthebay has already had experience of dealing with the person you refer to.
I know who you mean and often don't agree with his method of doing things. That said, he has helped me a few times for which I am grateful.
As for Ancestral Sources, didn't say I didn't like it, just find it a bit too rigid in its way of doing things at times. I use it to add Census facts for multiple individuals in the same family, but do not include the occupation because of the way it creates a separate occupation. Instead, I then expand the note section for each individuals census fact to say who they were with and what their occuaption was, and anything else from the census I wish to include. I also tend to use the Census (family) fact for couples, often amending the entries once I've added through Ancestral Sources, because otherwise you get rather a lot of repetition. Now using Census (family) facts is apparently a bit of a "no no" because it isn't gedcom complaint, although it is a standard Family Historian fact, but as I'm not planning on moving my data to any other software at any time soon, I prefer to have better worded reports than gedcom-complaint data.
Attached is an example of one of a census fact with a customised note to include occupation. The full sentence reads
"On 30 March 1851, the night of the census, Mary was resident at 3 Manchester Place, Chelsea, with her children Catherine, Emma, Martha and John. Her profession is described as a laundress". The reason the census reads this way is because I've customised the census template as
"{date}, the night of the Census, {individual} was resident at {_place}, {note}". For that matter, I've customised a lot of Family Historian sentence templates to read how I want them to read and try and remove some of the repetition that Bee refers to.
It really is down to how you wish to use the software and how you want to present it. There is no right and wrong, even though I may disagree with how the "majority" think things should be done. I don't like the way they display in Narrative Reports, but, as is the beauty of Family Historian, you can customs Fact sentence templates to display how you want and don't always have to use the default.
As Ray says, definitely worth keeping some backups of your gedcom, although the advice I've given on where to add baptisms, etc, isn't going to affect the gedcom, it is just one way of doing it.
