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- 16 Nov 2021 09:25
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: How to create a custom fact for Electoral roll from Residence
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5888
Re: How to create a custom fact for Electoral roll from Residence
Thank you Adrian, that probably explains why Ancestry says that there are no images available for that data set. However by that reasoning the date range I showed for the individual, "Residence Date 2003-2004", implies that the person was at that address from 2003 to 2004, but I didn't thi...
- 15 Nov 2021 17:08
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: How to create a custom fact for Electoral roll from Residence
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5888
Re: How to create a custom fact for Electoral roll from Residence
Thanks for your help Mike, as always.
- 15 Nov 2021 14:17
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: How to create a custom fact for Electoral roll from Residence
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5888
Re: How to create a custom fact for Electoral roll from Residence
Ah! I just happened to have "UK, Electoral Registers, 2003-2010" as the source from Ancestry that I was wanting to enter. The only choice in the Year field is 1945-, and then a Residence Date 2003-2004, which the Date field doesn't allow. I note that Census entries set the Title to Census ...
- 15 Nov 2021 12:48
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: How to create a custom fact for Electoral roll from Residence
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5888
Re: How to create a custom fact for Electoral roll from Residence
Had a look at AS, while there's an Electoral Register option in Census mode the rest of the template is still only relevant to census information: eg. census dates, 1939 Register date, Ref Id populated with RG references, etc. Maybe I'm missing something.
- 13 Nov 2021 17:29
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: How to create a custom fact for Electoral roll from Residence
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5888
Re: How to create a custom fact for Electoral roll from Residence
So when using the residence fact, what template would you use for the source citation? I've just downloaded a small tree from Ancestry, just as a test, and it's plastered lots of source citations into the FH Project, with references to Ancestry.com all over the place (I understand why, but I don't w...
- 06 Jul 2019 10:38
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Military service records
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3527
Re: Military service records
If I have reasonable quality images of a war record (ie. one image per page/form), I quite often put them into a Word document, one per page, plus a title page describing the record (and source details, date etc ** ). Then I save that Word document as a PDF file, and then add that PDF file to the so...
- 02 Jul 2019 12:28
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Media folder
- Replies: 26
- Views: 15212
Re: Media folder
On the other hand too many nested folders can exceed the Windows path length limit of 260 characters. With the Anniversary Update (version 1607) of Windows 10 you can abandon the 260 character path length, with two considerations: 1. A Windows registry entry needs to be edited*** 2. Older 32 bit ap...
- 21 Jun 2019 10:02
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: rotating pictures
- Replies: 34
- Views: 24746
Re: rotating pictures
I've never quite got to the bottom of this, but if you are a Windows user, and use Windows Explorer to show thumbnails of images, beware that if you rotate an image (in whatever way) then that thumbnail may not automatically get refreshed immediately (or not at all), so you end up thinking that the ...
- 21 Jun 2019 08:40
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: rotating pictures
- Replies: 34
- Views: 24746
Re: rotating pictures
Have a look at this website for Autorotate. It packages up those utilities that fugu68 mentions into something very easy and quick to use. I've been using it for years. https://savolai.net/software/jpeg-autorotate/
- 02 Apr 2019 09:23
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Organisation of media folders
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5629
Re: Organisation of media folders
But be aware the Windows has a maximum path length of 260 characters eg: C:\Users\Paula\Documents\Family Historian Projects\John R. Piper Family Project\John R. Piper Family Project.fh_data\Media\ is a path length of 123 characters, and this is without a file name. If you end up with path lengths of...
- 02 Mar 2019 16:27
- Forum: Plugin Technical Support & Development
- Topic: Map Life Facts and Google Cloud Invoice
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2143
Re: Map Life Facts and Google Cloud Invoice
Maybe because they are paving the way towards no free allowance (me...a cynic...never)
- 15 Feb 2019 11:59
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Question on registration info in Help > About
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6802
Re: Question on registration info in Help > About
I've just registered to get the email bulletins, but there was no check that I have a licensed product, unless it was implicit in the email address for the sending of the bulletins, but if so I would have expected to see a warning about using the same email address.
- 08 Feb 2019 09:56
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Picture Captions For Group Photos
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8169
Re: Picture Captions For Group Photos
Or use a photo editing program and add a caption to the image itself. At least then if you use that image anywhere else (outside of FH) you have caption explaining what it's about.
- 30 Nov 2018 14:55
- Forum: Genealogy News
- Topic: The virtues of FH
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6000
Re: The virtues of FH
Other than that, I agree with Mike (Tate) that the eye-catching things are the ones to concentrate on. My favourite would be diagrams, showing how easy it is to change the diagram root and hide or expand branches. Most people will be familiar with the idea of a family tree in diagram form so they w...
- 16 Nov 2018 09:05
- Forum: Web Site Usage
- Topic: posts show as unread even after viewing them
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8875
Re: posts show as unread even after viewing them
Wonder if we could have a "Mark topic read" function at the top of individual topics (similar to the Topics list screens). Usually one can decide if you want to read all of a topics posts after having read the top one (or few).
- 14 Nov 2018 11:29
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: PDF files in Media
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4119
Re: PDF files in Media
If I double click on that pdf icon, FH opens the file (outside of FH) with my default pdf program, in my case Adobe Acrobat Reader. Alternatively you could use a graphics editor to convert that pdf file to an image (eg .jpg) that will open within FH. Not so easy if it's a multi page document of cour...
- 06 Nov 2018 09:48
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Size Limitation on FH PDF Files?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6483
Re: Size Limitation on FH PDF Files?
I am trying to print an ALL RELATIVES diagram to an FH pdf file. The diagram is set up for a custom paper size of 128.5" x 128.5". When I configure the Print Setup to a resolution of 360 dpi, the diagram will print to an FH pdf file. The only problem that I have with the resulting file is...
- 30 Oct 2018 14:49
- Forum: Research
- Topic: London - districts, parishes,wards etc
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10234
Re: London - districts, parishes,wards etc
Cary's map of London (1804) from McMaster University Library is brilliant. So clear when zoomed, with no watermarks. Can snip the bit you want quite easily. I use it a lot for exploring around Hackney area. http://digitalarchive.mcmaster.ca/islandora/object/macrepo%3A80901 Nickie Great find, excell...
- 26 Oct 2018 10:17
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: migration from v3 to v6: folder structure in projects
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5220
Re: migration from v3 to v6: folder structure in projects
This is the folder structure I have on my D: drive (programs are on C:, data is all on D:) - Folder Structure.JPG Miller-Burslem is my main project, so the folder with that name is where all my files are. The folder " 0 Research " (and sub folders) is where I keep all my research notes, po...
- 22 Oct 2018 09:27
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Running on two PCs
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8579
Re: Running on two PCs
I just googled dropbox packrat and it looks like DropBox discontinued it in August 2014, and replaced it with Extended Version History, which keeps files for a year, although I can't work out from the DropBox website if this is available to new customers.
- 19 Oct 2018 16:02
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Running on two PCs
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8579
Re: Running on two PCs
I'm not sure that you can configure a memory stick to have the same drive letter on two PCs. The allocation of the drive letter is done by the PC and will depend on what else is plugged in to the usb ports and what the PC remembers about what has been plugged in in the past. I've fallen foul of this...
- 08 Oct 2018 17:57
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Best way to move between desktop and laptop
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5558
Re: Best way to move between desktop and laptop
I would NEVER trust having my master FH project in any cloud, fine as a copy for syncing or backup, but that's all. My master copy is on my main PC and I have 5 other copies in different places (including in the cloud) which are updated daily from the master one. I even keep 3 months worth of archiv...
- 08 Oct 2018 17:49
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Census, 1939 Register, Electoral Roll
- Replies: 30
- Views: 17260
Re: Census, 1939 Register, Electoral Roll
Quote from Ancestry web page: " Redactions Images have been redacted to protect the privacy of those still alive and we will be annually adding records for those with birth dates older than 100 years or if a record of the death has been reported to The National Archives. Images will also be upd...
- 05 Oct 2018 08:16
- Forum: Genealogy News
- Topic: New Windows 10 Clipboard History
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4726
Re: New Windows 10 Clipboard History
Do you mean the 1809 version that has started being rolled out this month, (also being called the October 2018 update)?
- 15 Sep 2018 16:41
- Forum: Research
- Topic: Electoral Roll - Dates Taken
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3553
Re: Electoral Roll - Dates Taken
Excellent! Thank you Arthur.