Family Historian User Group

OK this is now bugging me, so I went to the CoE Website : There is no difference between a christening service and a baptism service. Some churches will use the word ‘baptism’ and some the word ‘christening’. The moment when your child has water poured or wiped on their head is the actual baptism an...

Without wishing to stir up any pointless circling of definitionless arguments, I'd just add that the Book of Common Prayer, which defined the services for the Church of England for centuries, has three similar service called, from memory, something like the Order of Publick Baptism of Infants, the ...

I think Jane highlights two distinct aspects of what you put into FH. First, what you want to display in reports or diagrams - which is very dependent on Facts and what you enter in the left-hand side of the Individual's property box. Here you have play by FH's rules, or at least work in sympathy wi...

We used to believe that the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Roll of Honour website was sacrosanct, but they changed their underlying technology (and massively improved search access etc - possibly as a consequence) and the old URLs went with the old technology. As an aside I do wish that sites th...

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Are you running a query on Individuals or Facts?

I think you need to select "Facts" in the General Tab
Then in the Rows Tab "Excluded Unless =FactLabel(%FACT%) matches "Occupation"

That works for me

... Anyway, such a feature only gets used infrequently, so does not significantly improve efficiency. Well such a feature does not get used at all, because it is not there! It may only be infrequently used for you , but others with different workflows (particularly those that involve family reconst...

BTW: Opening a GEDCOM file that is embedded within a valid Project structure will always open the Project and NOT the GEDCOM on its own. Go and try it. So it does! That blows my theory as to how I screwed up a project a few years ago when I first started using projects! The OP's issue seem to be un...

Mike ... I would rather that Calico Pie spent their time & effort on more useful features. Thanks for the info about RM and how they handle drag and drop. I suppose it all boils down to how one organises their research. I work on a 15" lap-top (albeit with a relatively good resolution 1920x1080) whi...

Mike,

Has the OP originally created a project (complete with file structure) but then reopened the GEDcom file by clicking on the file icon (rather than on the fh_proj icon)? If so will updates have potentially got things tangled?

Are they using the "project window" (the safer way to start FH)?

Roots Magic can do drag and drop according to their website (https://www.rootsmagic.com/RootsMagic/Features.aspx). So there must be a way to do some of this functionality. The conceptual design is probably relatively simple but the actual system design would be complex. In most cases I would image t...

Helen, I would say actually making the move is no more difficult than upgrading from say Windows XP to Windows 7 (unless of course you up grade by doing a simultaneous hardware upgrade - buying a new machine). The time involved is because of the degree of choice! There is always a balance between sa...

I am repeatedly advised to upgrade to Windows 10. Please accept that my lovely Sony all in one desktop is not compatible. Bits and pieces may stop working if it is upgraded. I may well continue to use it as I have virus protection and we dont do tax or banking on line. Thought of trying Linux? Linu...

Copyright -- obviously you own the copyright in any original material you've produced, and facts can't be copyrighted, but have you included an material written by others in your research (even a transcription of a source?) Do you have a photo of your parents' wedding day? Who owns the copyright in...

They (FMP) used (a few years ago) also write to subscribers telling them that their subscriptions were being extended by the same number of days - which I thought was a nice touch.

Seem to have stopped doing so?

I appreciate the point of recording the information as you say. But as an example, if a child is staying with his grandparents at one address and his parents at another if you record the information as you suggest the child would not be linked to his parents would they? Do we need to check that the...

The password manager solution is not enough if you have a downloaded installation file instead of a CD. I suggest an archive as per the how_to:family_historian_installation_details#installation_archive|> Installation Archive advice. That archive folder should form part of your standard backup regim...

Jane's intervention ("going above and beyond what FHUG does") should offer a solution to your immediate problem. (Most of us I suspect have suffered similar problems because you can never remember what happened years ago when you installed the software!) I address this problem through a feature of m...

I think I am "stretching" towards thinking: Residence is an habitual "fact" - I am a UK resident, I could call my home "my residence", (a bit "grand" for a modest dwelling) Death notices often say "he died 'at his residence'" This is a key bit of information for family historians and distinct from a...

FYI: GEDCOM Standard 5.5 definition says: RESI {RESIDENCE}:= The act of dwelling at an address for a period of time. GEDCOM Draft 5.5.1 definition says: RESI {RESIDENCE}:= An address or place of residence that a family or individual resided. So it is down to interpretation as to how long establishe...

The other thing to remember is that there is an assumption behind, "away from home". Do we actually know he/she was "away from home" and that they were not actually "at home" for some reason - fostered or informally adopted out, major family breakdown, child actually living with their genetic father...

... You may think the family is unrelated to the child, but it may turn out later that there is some relationship, otherwise why is he residing there? It is often worth recording details of the household where "strays" are found at a census. My GGF was a stray in an 1800's census, but it made sense...

Is there an established view of how names like: Simon de Vere Michael du Bois Ursula von der Leyen William of Normandy Henry of Wales Herbert von Karajan Jacqueline du Pré Manuel de Falla Leonardo DiCaprio Leonardo di ser Perio da Vinci Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan Should be entered? I woul...

... but the student contact was too much like Facebook comments as the student discussion was not directed. There were some quite scathing personal comments ... This is a problem that I have seen with some FutureLearn courses (and more limited experience with other similar providers). On some cours...

I have tended to find the ISOGG wiki "heavy going"

That rather points the finger at the likes of Leicester University? (Who do do some FutureLearn Courses)

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29 Oct 2019 15:58

... or a more detailed look at DNA.

Anyone know anyone in the likes of ISOGG? It's not just Universities who produce courses for Future Learn (and similar). Perhaps they might find the platform a useful education tool?