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by SunnyLady
04 Dec 2020 11:09
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Storing Documents
Replies: 9
Views: 4930

Re: Storing Documents

If you have copies (digital and printed out) please ask yourself if any of the original documents should be deposited at the local records office. They will be preserved and conserved - if you need to you can restrict access. I’ve lodged some things with mine and was welcomed with open arms (includi...
by SunnyLady
11 Aug 2019 18:28
Forum: Genealogy News
Topic: Who Do You Think You Are - Whitehalls
Replies: 11
Views: 8639

Re: Who Do You Think You Are - Whitehalls

I have a vague memory of the first series having an add on programme with Nick Barrett, not on BBC1, showing ordinary mortals how to do their family history...
by SunnyLady
26 Dec 2017 11:05
Forum: Genealogy News
Topic: Merry Christmas Everyone
Replies: 10
Views: 8701

Re: Merry Christmas Everyone

Here here!!!
by SunnyLady
17 Dec 2017 15:48
Forum: Genealogy News
Topic: Clearly it Christmas.....
Replies: 11
Views: 8747

Clearly it Christmas.....

The lights are on.. Thank you Jane
by SunnyLady
23 Nov 2017 21:36
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Source Types and templates in fh?
Replies: 11
Views: 9012

Re: Source Types and templates in fh?

Each document is a source, so I don't "lump".
by SunnyLady
23 Nov 2017 20:22
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Source Types and templates in fh?
Replies: 11
Views: 9012

Re: Source Types and templates in fh?

Elizabeth thingee is the first to say that things should be recorded in a way that you and others can find the source again if you need to. If you are not going to produce an academic/published tome, or perhaps doing it as a paid professional, then you don't need to follow her very precise method, a...
by SunnyLady
17 Aug 2017 16:08
Forum: Research
Topic: Certificate Reading help please
Replies: 12
Views: 10899

Re: Certificate Reading help please

Was there an epidemic? I wondered if this was part of a multiple or even mass burial and so done as soon as possible? (And I agree "Tenth"!)
by SunnyLady
09 May 2017 17:53
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Letters as sources
Replies: 11
Views: 8774

Re: Letters as sources

Me too as per Bill and Colin
by SunnyLady
25 Apr 2017 08:55
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Sources for the Drouin Collection
Replies: 29
Views: 18611

Re: Sources for the Drouin Collection

Has ESM died since 17march ... Date of the last post on her site? I am sure there is a way around what you want... but with the flexibility of FHn you can achieve her aim..."can others follow the trail'? I use long title for precise detail, and short title for quick ID which doesn't in my case ...
by SunnyLady
21 Apr 2017 12:35
Forum: Research
Topic: Divorced 1886
Replies: 12
Views: 9747

Re: Divorced 1886

Just this morning got the Divorced, Bigamist, Bereaved book... worth every (2nd hand) penny as answered my general question of rules about re marriage in Church of divorced person... the finer detail may only ever be known to the people who got married (the divorced wife who describes herself as a w...
by SunnyLady
16 Apr 2017 15:03
Forum: Research
Topic: Divorced 1886
Replies: 12
Views: 9747

Re: Divorced 1886

Thank you Mike... the last one is what I couldn't paste the link in for.
by SunnyLady
16 Apr 2017 13:24
Forum: Research
Topic: Divorced 1886
Replies: 12
Views: 9747

Re: Divorced 1886

Rebecca Probert has written on this... have a rootle on Amazon or local library. She I think is a law lecturer, but writes for the rest of us when comes to Family history (sorry tried to cut and paste a link but iPad won't play!). Her latest book was reviewed favourably on LostCousins a bit ago.
by SunnyLady
15 Apr 2017 09:18
Forum: Genealogy News
Topic: One Name Studies
Replies: 14
Views: 12494

Re: One Name Studies

Not used Clooz, but used the other two. I think FHn and Custodian serve slightly different purposes. For me Custodian (version 3) was brilliant for holding census information of an entire place, over time... and generally keeping track of a place/ house over time. What I did not find easy on that wa...
by SunnyLady
20 Mar 2017 17:24
Forum: Genealogy News
Topic: Where am I?
Replies: 16
Views: 13321

Re: Where am I?

I agree ... to me the letters do read "shielding". But I thought it might be a corrupted version of "sheiling" which is a summer hut in Scotland and northern England... used by farmers. But it's also been used as a house name...
by SunnyLady
03 Feb 2017 12:52
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Select Repository... window - any way to simulate clicking on OK using keyboard?
Replies: 9
Views: 6787

Re: Select Repository... window - any way to simulate clicking on OK using keyboard?

Untried suggestion as not on windows 10 ... but perhaps use tab with the shift button held down ... think that how you put a tabbed space (rather than move to next cell) in a table in Word
by SunnyLady
29 Jan 2017 14:13
Forum: Research
Topic: Copyright
Replies: 9
Views: 7968

Re: Copyright

A "yes" here too...please. I just regard everything done by other people as in copyright, unless its REALLY clear it's not, or it's clear it has passed out of copyright (which is often difficult to establish), but err on the "if in doubt, leave it out" principle. I transcribe ess...
by SunnyLady
16 Jan 2017 14:15
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Citations - is there a correct way?
Replies: 13
Views: 10877

Re: Citations - is there a correct way?

Have a look at the work of Elizabeth Shown Mills (https://www.evidenceexplained.com/) ... mind boggling in detail in one sense but she was commended by the Strathclyde Genealogy team when I did their course. There is a huge amount in her books and on web site. it's American so there are some funnies...
by SunnyLady
29 Aug 2016 08:39
Forum: Web Site Usage
Topic: Upgrade to the forums
Replies: 49
Views: 33119

Re: Upgrade to the forums here

Jane

Brilliant ... On unread posts page I no longer need to go anywhere to mark all items read... Thankyou

SL
by SunnyLady
22 Jun 2015 19:41
Forum: General Usage
Topic: ZoomPast
Replies: 23
Views: 18767

Re: ZoomPast

Mike Not my grandchildren (!) but a friend to whom I had drawn attention to the programme as it seemed to meet her needs on a trip (ipad easier to haul around!) with "littlies"... I believe she has gone the PC route pro tem, but having iPad access (or presumably other mobile type tablets e...
by SunnyLady
20 Jun 2015 14:37
Forum: General Usage
Topic: ZoomPast
Replies: 23
Views: 18767

Re: ZoomPast

A friend wanted to put this on her iPad to travel to show grandchildren, having looked at the program on PC. She does not travel with her PC. She tells me no "mobile" version is available. Is this one of the developments to come?
by SunnyLady
20 May 2015 13:03
Forum: Importing
Topic: Ancestry GEDCOM no pictures at all
Replies: 6
Views: 6622

Re: Ancestry GEDCOM no pictures at all

Hi Karen I loved the Strath course (back in 2010/1 in Bruce Durie's last year) other than, as previous user of FHn (and delighted to be back using it tho not [yet] upgraded to 5 or 6), having to use FTM. I found/find FTM much less intuitive ... And assuming that you have been given same guidance abo...
by SunnyLady
27 Jan 2015 15:21
Forum: Genealogy News
Topic: Problems getting information from relatives!
Replies: 8
Views: 7730

Re: Problems getting information from relatives!

People are often happy to receive, but not to send, family information. I have shared info in the past in the hopes of an exchange and it's gone into a black hole with no further/amending info sent to me. Also have shared something saying this info "for your private use, for background, and not...
by SunnyLady
31 Dec 2014 15:29
Forum: Web Site Usage
Topic: "Unread Posts" search request
Replies: 1
Views: 3219

"Unread Posts" search request

Jane I use this a lot... (Actually my bookmark takes me to it directly!). Would it be possible to have a "mark all posts read" button on the results page? At present I go back to Board index and click on that button on right hand side... Not a major problem but a nicety to have it on resul...
by SunnyLady
28 Sep 2014 11:00
Forum: Research
Topic: Citing Non Conformist Image Records
Replies: 4
Views: 4605

Re: Citing Non Conformist Image Records

My nearest analogy is books or long articles... I have a source record with the full ( or as much or as little as I want) transcript of the text.. this does not get cited to an individual/family but is there to refer to under eg "book consulted [name]" in the short title column for the ful...
by SunnyLady
05 Jul 2014 16:59
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Changing repositories
Replies: 14
Views: 9404

Re: Changing repositories

I agree that the language is not helpful. Its also noticeable in some of the example sheets, which Mills gives in her book and on the web site, that she does not use the word "repository". For me the issue is as much about who is going to see what I record, and can the trail be followed, a...