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- 02 Nov 2024 20:25
- Forum: Plugin Technical Support & Development
- Topic: GRO BMD Index Citations
- Replies: 83
- Views: 7321
Re: GRO BMD Index Citations
Select both spouse boxes then use View > Properties... or right-click Properties... or Alt+Enter. I find that simply selecting both boxes is enough to switch the Property box to the Family record. No need to use any of the extra steps suggested by Mike. With regard to the first question, I use diag...
- 29 Oct 2024 14:38
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Great or Grand?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 579
Re: Great or Grand?
Thanks Mervyn. Ancestry are of course taking a US-centric view, but from what Bill said earlier ( “a Great-Aunt would be my Grandfather's or Grandmother's sister” ) many people in the US use the same system as the UK. So, perhaps we might have to accept that there is no universally correct answer, j...
- 29 Oct 2024 10:10
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Great or Grand?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 579
Re: Great or Grand?
We all seem to be in broad agreement, apart from Ancestry! The passage Bob quoted from Ancestry says that According to genealogists, great-aunt is then supposed to be used for relatives who are three generations older than you or more. So, your great-grandmother or great-grandfather’s sister is your...
- 29 Oct 2024 01:13
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Great or Grand?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 579
Re: Great or Grand?
I have not found a good logical reason why my grand-parents' siblings should not be referred to as my grand-aunts or uncles. Can anyone help us understand this a little better? There is no logical reason why a grand-parents’ siblings should not be referred to as grand-aunts or grand-uncles. It’s ju...
- 28 Oct 2024 22:32
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Changing Media File Names
- Replies: 3
- Views: 189
Re: Changing Media File Names
At present if you have one or several external or network drives attached Family Historian will search them all so do exactly as John suggested and MOVE the folder rather than copy otherwise FH will still find the original file paths. Roger’s problem is that FH is NOT finding the original file path...
- 25 Oct 2024 21:14
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Renaming a Media Sub-Folder
- Replies: 8
- Views: 261
Re: Renaming a Media Sub-Folder
... my files are all sub-folders within the Media folder of the project file, thus they are not external files and don't show up under Tools > External File links They will show up, whether they are inside or outside the project. 'External' just means outside the Gedcom file. Here is an example fro...
- 25 Oct 2024 18:51
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Renaming a Media Sub-Folder
- Replies: 8
- Views: 261
Re: Renaming a Media Sub-Folder
Yes, using Tools > External file Links > Auto Repair Links will repair all the links automatically (provided the file names themselves have not changed). You don't need to do one at a time. Another method is to use Tools > External File Links and locate the old name of the sub-folder in the list, th...
- 22 Oct 2024 10:20
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Issue closing FH
- Replies: 6
- Views: 394
Re: Issue closing FH
Note that you will only see the last screen if you have chosen a location which is differerent from the existing default (as set in Tools > Preferences > Backups).
- 19 Oct 2024 10:47
- Forum: Research
- Topic: Recording Convict records
- Replies: 6
- Views: 358
Re: Recording Convict records
Another approach, useful if you want a narrative report to flow easily, is to use notes to summarise some of the subsidiary details instead of creating numerous separate facts. I do use a custom ‘Criminal Conviction’ fact to record the initial offence and the judgement, and another ‘Transportation’ ...
- 14 Oct 2024 18:49
- Forum: Research
- Topic: Registration Districts?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 881
Re: Registration Districts?
This is a bit off-topic but for England and Wales marriages which took place in an Anglican church there is a technique for working out which church it was, based on the information in the index. This enables precise recording of the location, not just the RD, without the need to order a certificate...
- 14 Oct 2024 10:27
- Forum: Research
- Topic: Registration Districts?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 881
Re: Registration Districts?
Further to John's point, even if you do know the sub-district, finding out the exact location of the office (which has probably moved a few times over the years) is difficult, therefore it probably can't be 'pinpoint geocoded'. Anyway, that approach means creating a separate registration fact for th...
- 09 Oct 2024 10:51
- Forum: Ancestral Sources
- Topic: New Version
- Replies: 6
- Views: 353
Re: New Version
John, that message is about Mike's Ancestral Sources Data Entry plugin which can be used to launch the Ancestral sources program itself. The plugin is not the AS program. There was recently a discussion about the fact that many people seem to confuse the two. See 23333|A new Ancestral Sources launch...
- 02 Oct 2024 12:13
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: How to record two possible baptisms
- Replies: 17
- Views: 725
Re: How to record two possible baptisms
LAY BAPTISM ...yet that if it were administered by a laic a heretic a schismatic or even by a pagan it was a valid baptism . Wow, I like the idea of a valid baptism being performed by a pagan! Adrian: Yes, matters of status often influenced what was done. But I imagine the Book of Common Prayer wou...
- 02 Oct 2024 11:03
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: How to record two possible baptisms
- Replies: 17
- Views: 725
Re: How to record two possible baptisms
Thanks Helen, I stand corrected. I was basing my answer on many previous Google searches, which among others throw up this quote from the Church of England, Book of Common Prayer: Private Baptism of Infants The Ministration of Private Baptism of Children in houses The Minister of every parish shall ...
- 02 Oct 2024 10:51
- Forum: Genealogy News
- Topic: FMP starting to add mother's maiden name to pre 1911 births
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4240
Re: FMP starting to add mother's maiden name to pre 1911 births
Remember also that mother's maiden name is only relevant from 1837 onwards Has no bearing on record in the 300 years before that You are referring specifically to England and Wales (which admittedly this thread was about when it started 6 years ago. It has drifted off topic). Just to be clear, thos...
- 02 Oct 2024 10:35
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: How to record two possible baptisms
- Replies: 17
- Views: 725
Re: How to record two possible baptisms
My nephew was baptised privately in the 1960s...It was just the family in our local Methodist church, I’m not familiar with the terminology in the Methodist Church, but the distinction between a private and public baptism in the Church of England, as recorded in parish registers, is not a question ...
- 01 Oct 2024 17:58
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Roll back changes
- Replies: 2
- Views: 169
Re: Roll back changes
Use File > Backup/Restore > Revert to Snapshot... You should then be presented with a list of snapshots for the current project. Select the one with yesterday's date and click the 'Revert to Snapshot' button. You can ignore the warning about taking a backup first, because the current state of the ge...
- 01 Oct 2024 15:34
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Consolidating multiple occupation facts?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 236
Re: Consolidating multiple occupation facts?
Hello, welcome to FHUG. Yes, in cases like this where there is overwhelming evidence that a person had one trade and stuck to it throughout their working life I do consolidate the occupation facts. If you are likely to use narrative reports this is certainly a good idea because a single paragraph su...
- 01 Oct 2024 11:47
- Forum: Closed Wish List Requests
- Topic: [Wish List 644] Allow Report sentences to recognise Individuals who are Living.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 605
Re: Allow Report sentences to recognise Individuals who are Living.
There is already a wish list request for narrative reports to adjust in a case where a couple had only one child: https://www.fhug.org.uk/wishlist/wldisplay.php?searchstring=narrative%20senetences&wcwcref=-1&byusrvote=include¤tpage=1&orderby=wlwlcrtdate&orderseq=DESC&wl...
- 30 Sep 2024 10:33
- Forum: Closed Wish List Requests
- Topic: [Wish List 644] Allow Report sentences to recognise Individuals who are Living.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 605
Re: Allow Report sentences to recognise Individuals who are Living.
I have now realised that there is a problem with the “… was/were born to…” format. It would be completely wrong in cases of adoption, where Fred Blogs and Mary Smith are the adopting parents. Admittedly even the “had the following children“ format is slightly misleading but is sufficiently ambiguous...
- 29 Sep 2024 22:00
- Forum: Closed Wish List Requests
- Topic: [Wish List 644] Allow Report sentences to recognise Individuals who are Living.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 605
Re: Allow Report sentences to recognise Individuals who are Living.
That still doesn’t work if one of the parents is alive and the other is not. Nor does it work if one of the children has died. “The following children were born to Fred Blogs and Mary Smith” is the best I can come up with, as it has no implications about whether all or any of them are still living. ...
- 29 Sep 2024 18:47
- Forum: Closed Wish List Requests
- Topic: [Wish List 644] Allow Report sentences to recognise Individuals who are Living.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 605
Re: Allow Report sentences to recognise Individuals who are Living.
When child facts do exist then the report wording is "He and Mary Smith had the following children:" which can be wrong on two counts. 1) If the parents are alive it should say "have" not "had". 2) If there is only one child it should say "child" not "ch...
- 29 Sep 2024 13:51
- Forum: Closed Wish List Requests
- Topic: [Wish List 644] Allow Report sentences to recognise Individuals who are Living.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 605
Re: Allow Report sentences to recognise Individuals who are Living.
This seems a reasonable request but I don’t know how easy it would be to implement, or whether CP would feel it worth their while as there are ways round the problem. As far as I know (I stand to be corrected) the format "Joe Bloggs was the son of Fred Bloggs and Mary Smith" only arises if...
- 27 Sep 2024 13:29
- Forum: Reports, Books & Websites
- Topic: How to suggest a new feature or improvement?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 281
Re: How to suggest a new feature or improvement?
This group (FHUG) has its own Wish List, where requests for enhancements or new features can be made. Calico Pie (the developers of FH) take it into account but their decisions about what to do depend on the ease of coding, how much demand there is for a feature, etc. The procedure to get something ...
- 24 Sep 2024 11:47
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: How to display name prefixes & suffixes in focus window and charts
- Replies: 3
- Views: 320
Re: How to display name prefixes & suffixes in focus window and charts
To expand on John's reply, the prefix and suffix cannot be displayed in the Focus window but they can be displayed in the caption at the top of the individual’s Property Box. To do this, use Tools > Preferences > Property Box > Captions. Change the Individual: value to use %INDI.NAME[1]:ADORNED_FULL...