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Although I am content to let the 6 and 7cM matches go, I have found some that have proved useful. I have worked through and established 'paper' connections which I would never otherwise have found and some have been 'brick wall breakers'. The paper records establish that there is a connection BUT is...

I did a run through of just 6 to 8cM matches today. I searched for surname and area for the majority of my family names. In fact there were not too many results for less common names and I left a note of the result on each of them. I didn't bother with common names ... searching for Brown in Lancash...

Today, having collected a big Data set of PRs about one name (Rusby) I started working them up into mini trees to see how they fit together. Having reached a conclusion about a group of them in the early 1700s, with PR and grave inscription evidence I thought I'd see what conclusion others had come ...

People who were already part of the War effort tend not to appear on the 1939 Register. I know 15 sounds a bit young for that but it is just possible that he was maybe in training at the time.
Anne

For Lincolnshire have you tried Lincstothepast.com? It is the Lincolnshire Archives website and has made images available free for years. Granted it is very fiddly to use and FindmyPast has all the images anyway, but on subscription. On FindmyPast it is best to use the A to Z of record sets > Lincol...

Sorry for the delay! Mike, my settings are exactly as your image shows. I have never altered anything in there. Also, while I do have several projects, I have never renamed any of them. I didn't really know anything about snapshots (except through reading about how they can be used on this forum). I...

All done. I deleted 21 snapshots from one of my Projects and 42 from another! The other Projects did not have so many.
Anne

Thanks Lorna. I have no idea why they are there. I do have several Projects but have certainly used them all within the last year or so. I'll delete the old ones. Thanks
Anne

I have noticed that I have quite a long list of snapshots in my FH projects. For some strange reason there are a lot from 2016. Is it safe to delete those old ones? I would like to do so because, added together, they are quite large. I save my Projects to a free Dropbox account (and three other plac...

It doesn't include those years because they weren't digitsed in the Dove project. Think they got as far as 1957 and stopped. The later ones were always digitised, hence the gap. Unfortunately the date of birth is not given in those later ones on the GRO website, only the year.
Anne

rfj1001 wrote: ↑

20 Nov 2019 18:10

Everton, Lp’l (Liverpool)

Yes, that's what I saw as soon as I looked. Some things are best with a fresh eye!
Anne

Hmmm .. that'll be why the site gave me 'Whoops error 500' notices all afternoon just as I was on a roll with some research. Incredibly frustrating for those of us who have paid. I had to give up and do housework!!!
Anne

I have quite a number of instances of children or young people recorded both with their parents AND somewhere else eg, grandparent, aunt, cousin or as a servant. I also have a wonderful 1911 census where all the numerous children are recorded at the parents home even though some of the have already ...

Anne

Humph! Back to signing in again now. Bah!
Anne

Fingers crossed I haven't had to sign in for a couple of days now. Nothing changed at my end as far as I know.
Anne

Just in case you didn't realise .... this has been available for a few years. It is a great resource and I've used it a lot.
Anne

Strange that it doesn't happen with any of my other 'permanently signed in' websites then!
Anne

Thanks for the suggestions. This is something that has only just started and I've been using this iPad in the same way for a couple of years. I did wonder if it was something to do with the recent move?
Anne

For the last 2 weeks or so, I have had to sign in every time I come to FHUG. I never used to have to do this! I'm using an iPad and do tick the Remember me box each time.
Anne

I just made today a one page PDF following the instructions in Knowledge Base. It worked a treat even though I use a different PDF application (Primo PDF). I had never tried it before because I wrongly assumed it would be barely legible, which is not the case!
Anne

As I understand it, hints do not come from some Ancestry (or other site) algorithms but are produced by the number of subscribers who attach them to their trees. There are many, many times when I have gone and easily found the record I need but it has not been produced as a hint because no one else ...

They are apparently admitting that (not surprisingly!) they are snowed under, so I guess we'll have to be patient.
Anne

If most of your family are From Scotland, then you can't beat Scotland's People, which you pay for in a different way. Non of the other three sites you mention have the details because they were not allowed to. Getting hints is NOT the same as searching for the records yourself and could lead you se...

I should have also mentioned that when I started with FH from a different program I spent a few days working through the Sample Family tutorial. This showed me the basics and was well worth the short amount if time spent doing it.
Anne