Family Historian User Group

Peter, Very difficult to draw any conclusion without finding more info. It's likely that the child's 'real' surname as far as the Church was concerned was Smale/Small, having been born the son of an unmarried woman, but that he was known in the community as James Ballamy/Bellamy, perhaps suggesting ...

Helen, Yes you could well be correct. It's a bit difficult to see what's round the bend (if anything) at the side of the page, which also makes it difficult the get the last couple of words after the month, which might be December or November, but seeing it in the context of the surrounding entries ...

Try:

"James the son of Maria Smale [Small?] alias Ballamye being a bastard child was christened the 30th day of..."

Mervyn

The duration of the 'Splash' screen appears to be dependent on the startup process used, i.e. for me : 1) If I don't select a default startup database the duration is 1 sec. but I then have to select the project and start it. 2) If I select a default project to be started then the 'splash' remains u...

Adrian, You are probably right, but new purchasers will automatically download the 'new' release and, as Calico Pie, haven't provided a change log, it's impossible to know with any certainty what has/has not been changed since the original release. Also, if someone has a 'help' issue with a an unkno...

Peter, Thanks for that link. Calico Pie are obviously under pressure resolving issues and haven't got round to notifying the vast majority of users that this update has been posted either on their Website; or via the application itself which doesn't yet recognise that the update is available. Mervyn

I believe the original reason for High-street, Greenfield-road, Acacia-avenue etc was to present individual address lines as a 'single hyphenated word', thereby ensuring they remained on the same line of text throughout the time when the convention was not to allow conjoined typed/printed words to b...

Not that complex really :) Many (most) cities in the UK were originally divided up by Parish boundaries (or the expansion of building within separate parishes eventually resulted in large towns/cities being formed) and districts inherited the names of the original Parish, e.g. St Pancras, Middlesex ...

Or, if you want to avoid 'Custom' Facts you could use Possessions, which could cover Freehold/Copyhold/Leasehold 'title' which was a qualification for a voting entitlement (depending on value), even if the actual use of the premises was by some other party.

Mervyn

Yes, thanks Mike. There's still a lot of 'new' in V7 that going to take a lot of time to get round to appreciating more fully, as you've already noted many times. At times it appears like a completely new system grafted on to a familiar core interface. Not necessarily a bad thing, but sometimes dist...

Hate to be so simplistic but, out of curiosity, why not use the standard 'btw 1950 and 1953' which isn't a date phrase so produces 'was born between 1950 and 1953'

Mervyn

Users on this Forum should be very careful about making comments/sharing opinions on the RootsMagic 8 Beta software. Testing is ongoing and is still covered by a Confidentiality Agreement which applies to anyone who has gained access to the Beta releases; and we should fully respect that in the same...

I'm sure you'll get many options suggested but I tend to use a combination of the graphic image below for 'immediate impact combined with a similar 'flag/icon' and notes describing what is in doubt/needs more evidence. I'm yet to look at the new 'Research Notes' features if FH Version 7.

If I remember correctly, one of the original concepts of the Graphical Windows interface was to deliberately provide many ways to do the same thing to provide user choice; and also address at least some of the "accessibility issues" for those with physical impairments; and Windows software developer...

There's a small utility program here - https://github.com/imDema/FreeMove - which has been designed to help with moving existing user data folders to a new location and auto-creating folder links to avoid problems with software which expects (and continues to expect) files to be stored in specific l...

Of course, if Calico Pie had a 'Public Bugtracker' within the Registration Site then registered users would have a chance of knowing when a problem has already been reported/acknowledged; and would be able to add pertinent information to existing reports, rather than duplicating them. It would also ...

But Mike, that means she's from the West Riding, so she's still a fine Yorkshire Lass, even when in exile

Have a Great Christmas (or just the best you can in these strange times).

Mervyn

Ah! the delights of Yorkshire history and geography and the 'non-existent' geographic areas of North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire; and of course the late and unlamented 'Humberside', all of which are/were politically created administrative areas which have very little to do with geogra...

Evelyn, I don't think you have any need at all to feel "very stupid". I'm still trying to find my way around all the changes in FH7, which seem to be represent the most complex version to version change so far, having used the software continuously since the first public release (Version 2). It's al...

Quick initial Test of Ancestral Sources 7 installation on Linux Mint 20 Virtual Machine. Seems to be working O.K., but haven't fully tested data entry process. Received some warnings about possible incompatibilities etc. when installing MS NET Framework 4.8, which didn't appear with Crossover, but j...

Mike, Yes, I will work with Colin S. (Valkrider) to assist with the inclusion of tested/verified procedures and issues for non-Windows Users. Still trying to catch up on "what's changed" in 7 to ensure it's not just me whose causing any glitches. Will drop Colin another e-mail to see what his priori...

@philk Which Linux distribution and which version of Wine are you using? Might not be able to replicate precisely but willing to try to get as near as possible. My basic procedure would be: - create a separate 32-bit prefix 'FH7' if you intend to (eventually) install both Family Historian and Ancest...

Sorry, but what is the point of this 'discussion'? The price is the price the seller decides. It is simply "an invitation to treat" and the prospective purchaser is not compelled to pay the price asked, as they can walk away and buy/use something else if they don't feel it's worthwhile/affordable. T...

I get the same result, plus the 'Check Installed Plugins Against the Store' Plugin reports errors on every plugin, i.e. states each plugin needs updating, then errors out if you choose 'Yes'. Edit: Tested the 'Recapture' and it did 'unlock' access to the site, but it reported the same access error w...

O.K. You've ruled out two possibilities :D The only other 'third party' possibilities I can immediately think of are: - some form of Mouse Control software setting, e.g. if you have a Logitech Mouse and Software, but then you would probably see the same behaviour in other software; - (more likely) t...