... 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 ind...

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, 1...

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...

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 a...

... 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 -...

It is NOT usual practice to add the married name of women via the more (+) button as an Alternate Name . ... To be honest, I rather wish I'd done exactly that. As it is, if I get a woman who married 2 or more times, I always enter at least the first married name as an alternate name. At first, I di...

I think I'm closest to Mike. Off the top of my head, names and births are the two single events / attributes / facts that are most likely to get multiple sources. For births, I do cite them all against the birth simply because values often shift through the years and having access to all the possibl...

... I discovered FMP had changed the titles of some of their recordsets, so my old sources were now incorrect. ;) That happens - quite often with FMP says my untrustworthy intuition. It also happens with Ancestry - e.g. the English & Welsh Probate Calendar changed its name slightly. And Scotlan...

Yes, I also record the census as an individual event. But for many years I haven't put any detail in the notes for the census-event (no notes is very unusual for me) and I don't print census events out in reports. The census form is squeezed for all the other data that I can, so occupation, birth, m...

In no particular order, off the top of my head, I would suggest; - maximise use of copying the text from the source (or screen shotting); - ensure the source record describes not just the answer but also the question; - try to identify the cited / original source of the internet source. I would also...

A quick Google leads to https://nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/the-land-tax-1692-1963.pdf Apparently there was a quota system that, fundamentally, didn't change through history, which might sound promising for working forward or back. However, there's also this warning: The relationship between L...

I use Dropbox for my data stored in the cloud - which is virtually everything. I'm paying for 1TB of it. I should add that currently I only work on my FH files from one machine - the only machines actively synching to Dropbox are my laptop and my Android phone. I did use Microsoft OneDrive because i...

Mike writes that Ancestry automatically privatises living people. That may be true for the normal trees on their site. But is that true for the trees of direct ancestors (and only ancestors) uploaded in conjunction with DNA matching? My own experience is that it does not.Otherwise how would I have ...

Something of a clutching at straws suggestion - (steam locos I'm fine on, steam ships are a different kettle of fish..) Could it possibly have been a Crew List (as per BT99 from Kew) that you were looking at? The only such example that I have has a number of calling points listed but they may have b...

DonF wrote:... I'd never suggest there is only one 'right way'.

Indeed.