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Still puzzled why it would be set anyway? Bit like Neighbours on Census records? You scan the image and you see names that "ring a bell" but you can't see the connection, so you set them as Witnesses (name only) to resolve later? Another example of whether you are using FH as a melting pot for all ...

Welcome to FHUG! I think a lot depends on what you are using FH for ? - which may sound like a silly question! 1. Some people use FH as the immediate repository prior to publication . I.e. they want to be able to just click the menu option and "produce" a book/CD/website etc.. If that is the case I ...

Apologies for being morbid (can't think why I am being!), but how many of us have left instructions for our digital assets in our wills? (You know, just in case...) Some hosts are tricky about "handing over the keys" even when presented with probate details. Some people have suggested that you leave...

Evelyn I abandoned Microsoft Office a few years ago and have since used bits of LibreOffice - which is Free Open Source Software . The Calc equivalent of Excel is fine - I have not run into compatibility problems (and I would define myself as a "power user" having developed apps at work). Write - th...

Evelyn Have you been lead astray by record flags (added to a record through "Edit Record Flags" and visible on the "All" tab) and icons (which can include national flags) that show up in diagrams? Icons can be set by a number of ways (e.g. using conditions - expressions or flags), one of which confu...

Gowermick How's Windows 3 and Family Historian V1 coming along for you? Surely the world advances and software along with it probably the reason you are using FH6.2.7 and Windows 10 and not a quill and parchment. What would you do if FH went down the ribbon route (which works very well if you give ...

... The important point is not to use a generic Place such as at sea . Each Place must be unique to allow it to be plotted in the Map Window . Within this it might be possible to be more useful in respect of "place" Either: Place: Wreck @ Lat Long Address: Ship Name Or Place: 5 days out from Rio bo...

Adrian, it's clunky but just about works -- two events and one status show what happened. Much harder to deal with a void marriage -- there's a Marriage Event, and the Status should be 'Never Married' but there isn't a 'Void Marriage' event; the marriage event has to be bestrewn with notes explaini...

I have a more curious problem: I have just discovered a couple who were married twice, in different parts of the country, with an interval of about three years between the two marriages. ... Meanwhile I have amended my diagram text scheme to show multiple instances of marriage in the same family re...

What would you like to see changed? Having worked with FH since version 2, I've always appreciated its clean modern appearance and personally hope that isn't changed. In terms of "appearance", I would want little changed. I'm not adverse to justified change, but I have never appreciated the "Window...

Most of us are splitters when it comes to Marriage Certificates (as in this post), so swapping media from the citation to the source is a safe thing to do. If however you are a lumper for sources such as Census records (where your source is something like "1881 England and Wales Census"), moving you...

... I have uploaded my tree from Ancestry but none of the pictures of the census etc was uploaded with it. So what I have been doing is going to the Society of Genealogists and send the pictures of the census etc to my home email and then uploading them to my project using Ancestral sources and now...

... Have you gone too far down the 'lumper' GRO Index source route to backtrack? How easy would it be (for someone who can do LUA) to write a plug-in that would take a lumped source and convert it into multiple split sources (title based on lumped source title + individual "where within source") an...

How do other people organise their census images? And do other people download every census image, as prompted by Ancestral Sources? I am concerned about potential disc space. The census images are currently 615 MB. I drop all my downloaded census images (from FMP, Ancestry etc) into the media subd...

... NB - re the possibility of having both a domestic and a business vote - "a second vote could only be cast if the qualifying business premises was in a separate constituency to the residence premises" ... I think from a swift read this was a function of the Representation of the People Act 1918 ...

Try House of Commons Library Research Paper, number 13/14 of 1 March 2013 The History of the Parliamentary Franchise

I also get this with Wine/Linux; you have to be careful to ensure that any date warning window is handled before you click away. If you don't, Linux/Wine eventually asks if you want to end the process or continue to wait. Waiting has never resolved the matter; Ending the process closes FH. If you ha...

... My goal is to have that nice book printed on appropriate paper in order to hand on to my children, grandchildren. Yes something tangible as I wonder whether they would bother to go online. The family Bible in my home goes back to 1835 and that's something for all to see to and indeed a treasure...

Hopefully, they have read the Home page advice before they visit other pages and find that Index link. Whether they read that advice (and remember it) rather depends on why they have come to the KB. If they have come thinking "I need to read up on this program before I ask "newbie" questions", they...

If I just transfer everything from my old computer to the new one via the external hard disc will that solve the problem ? I don't think it applies here, but given discussions elsewhere, are we certain that disk cloning ("everything"?) is not another solution? I think I successfully did that many m...

I understood that plural voting was intended to cover the situation where a man (usually a man) pays two lots of rates and therefore got two votes. I believe some minor parties still talk about votes for businesses - just as they get votes in Business Improvement Districts. So: R Residence qualifica...

Apparently Plural Voting continued quite a while! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_voting#United_Kingdom says that it was finally abolished for local authorities by the Representation of the People Act 1969 I seem to remember finding that my Great Grandfather in turn of the century (19/20th) Hud...

When was the franchise reformed so that businessmen did not have a business vote in addition to their residential vote? I would have thought it was before 1939/1940.

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In many cases you do want to assume that everyone coming to the KB has a level of ignorance - the key is how you do it! We might assume that someone saying "I've lost my data" is ignorant of the various alternative scenarios, but we need not offend everyone by saying "really , are you sure that you ...

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