It always pays to have a look at the Record Office Catalogue. However, inevitably Ancestry and / or FindMyPast close up spaces or miss leading zeroes in their references resulting in much frustration if you try to use the document reference. And that's before you try to find the parish registers in ...

Thanks for your work in doing the transfer. (Look at it this way - at least you didn't have to wait until Christmas Day to transfer, which is what we had to do with BR because that was the only day we weren't running trains!!)

... It might have started off showing a little more of the process, but I suspect that audience research disabused them rapidly of the notion that that was a long-term recipe for success. ... It did - 5 minutes at the end of Adrian Chiles doing his everyman schtick and looking even more bored than ...

I think this is one occasion where there is a strong argument for the Primary Name to be the adopted name and the first Alternate Name to be the birth name. I'm assuming that there are only one or two events / attributes before the adoption - if so, then the great majority of events and attributes w...

Guessing rather than anything else - could OSPO etc mean "OverSeas Post Office HMS Laconia"? I just get reminded of Family Favourites on the radio on Sundays and the addresses quoting BFPO for British Forces Post Office....

I don't see how to date that sort of a relationship - though I've not looked very long. What I did find that I could do was to go to Fact Types and create a Custom Event for a Family. I'd already got one set up for living together - though not intentionally that sort of "living together"! I could th...

Having 3 formats of EE Customisation (footnote, 2nd footnote and bibliography) isn't a challenge to Normalisation because each item is held just once for that source - e.g. "publication place" is held once but printed in each of the 3 when the need comes to generate those formats for each report bei...

a proper citation and custom citation that is EE compliant To be honest if someone is prioritising EE formats, then FH is not the place to be. There are 3 major issues that I think (from fallible memory) exist: EE formats cover "footnotes", "2nd and subsequent footnotes" and bibliographies. No matt...

One thing that I always advocate for the Media folder is splitting it into at least two sub-folders, which in my case I've named "Sources1 NotIinFH" and "Sources2 InFH". When I initially capture images / transcripts from Ancestry or FMP or FamilySearch etc, they go into "Sources1 NotIinFH" because I...

Where did they get the form?!

... I confess the 'explanation' on that TNA page leaves me totally bewildered. Indeed... ;) I have also scratched my head about what a Piece is - I used to think it was the physical thing that you ordered. Well, it is. Usually. Sort of. I thought. Then one day I ordered a Piece that was a military ...

... Wierdly, the downloaded image filename from FMP is in form TNA_R39_0023_0023C_003 , but can't understand why FMP feels it necessary to repeat the 0023 ... I have a very vague feeling that FMP originally showed both the 0023 and the 0023C in its reference. Or maybe I'm just thinking of the image...

Thanks Helen - I had various LostCousins posts for the 1939 bookmarked but not that. However, even with Peter C's help, I still can't make out the 010/7 bit - or rather, the 010 bit. Yes, the 7 is the line number on the page. But looking at the film-strip on Ancestry (didn't realise that was a bit m...

OK - I give up in embarrassment :? - For my grandparents, FindMyPast have: Ref: RG101/4003A/010/7 Letter Code: LEOM Can anyone actually tell me what each of those items actually means ? Physically? If I've written this down before, I've lost it! Yes, RG101 is the TNA Reference for Kew's digital (onl...

BillH wrote:... enumerated three times in the 1850 census. ...

Three?! Wow!
Is this a record, we ask?

... what about people travelling on overnight sleeper trains or more recently, overnight flights? You'd need to look at the actual instructions but as I remember it, there are instructions that are supposed to cover that sort of scenario, so that in the UK census, everyone should appear only once. ...

If the children lived in a family with their step-parent, then I will enter them as step-children to their step-parent in the later family. As you say, this then can result in multiple appearances that are essentially, a bit of a mess in a diagram. So if I'm going to be working with a diagram for a...

There are a couple of things that can be done. Firstly, if I explain FH's facilities, maybe we can come back to your specific issues in a minute or two. 1. The first name that you enter into FH for someone is the Primary Name. 2. If you then click the "more (+)" link by the name on the individual's ...

Re the Short Title - my usage is similar to Lorna's. The latest source-record I have put in, e.g., has Long Title = household of Johan & Thora Zahle Lassen, Christiansgade, Aarhus Kobstad (Borough), Denmark, 1901 Census, Husliste No. 2007b Short Title = Census Entry: Lassen, Johan & Thora, 1901, Aar...

Okay Adrian, where would you put the date you entered the information in FH if not the entry date? ... Basically - I don't! My only real concern with perhaps wanting to know the date I'd entered something is a desire to detect circular reasoning. Or review what happens if some earlier reasoning was...

... 4) The date & time a Source record is entered into FH is recorded in its Updated field, and if you don't need to change that Source record again, that will be the Date of entry. ... That's a point. I have always looked at it from the point of view of the person so I had missed that, if I go bey...

Where would you put the date you found the information if not in the entry date? That's a good question. Personally, I've never written that down - oh I have notebooks that record when I went to Kew and what I found there, but don't ask me to find them again! So far I've never felt the need to reco...

Why has no one taken screen shots of a birth certificate, the filled in repository and the source after it is entered in to FH and this would stop all of my and no doubt many others questions about what goes where ... It sounds attractive but I have to say that life isn't always that simple. To tak...

Writing from memory and in order across a conventional chart - - Bruce, Bates, Taylor, Salter (at the 2nd attempt on the brain cells!), - Griffiths, Purcell, Cooper, Cadman (I think...). Checking... Yes, it was Cadman. Where the brain cells were wrong was my emotional reaction: "We don't have any ph...

... Should we be grateful that records such as these are made available or should it be used as an indication to consider carefully what you reveal when filling out 'confidential' forms? ... Despite the "or" that you put in, I think the answer is "yes" and "yes". Yes - we should always "consider ca...