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Never used the flags so have no idea how useful they are. In anycase I have better use of my time than bother with flags

Victor

I will have to remember to do this next time I use it. Itis rare for anybody to know who the best man is and I never understood why that was a default.

If I recall correctly the burial details have a witness drop down menu. How many people know the witness names?

Victor

My grtandfather was illegitamatew and baptised under his mother's maiden name of Briggs in 1962. His mother married Charles Markham in 1865 and he used the Markham surname ever since. I had a DNA test to see if Charles could be his father. It turned out he isn't and his father is of Polish origin. S...

When I save a census I put it in the form of RG11-2345_Fo-67_Page-89 Name year of birth
2345 being the piece number.
All my census images are saved in separate folders for each year census.

Victor

Microsoft has changed the name of Office 365 to Microsoft 365 I have no idea if this affects you. In the past I have been getting the wrong verson of Word but then save it in the right version. I am tryin g to recall what happened but think when I open the wrong version I get a message about this. S...

For anyone interested I have My Office 345. Now renamed Microsoft 345. This includes Word, Excel, Power Point etc and 1.5TB One Drive storage. For all this I pay £59.99 a year.

Victor

You can try doing a right click and see what the menu shows. If the list includes taking a screen shot use the curor to cover the area of the shot you want then prompt copy and open it on a photo software. I do this all the time including FreeBMD details on ancestry and post the image as a media fil...

An example of what I use
1891 RG12-0931_Fo-027_Page-05

Fo is the Folio number
I do it this way for all the census years

Victor

The reason I put (Baker) is simply because she married a Smith and this would separate the two children assuming they both have different fathers. When more details are available then changes can be made

Leaving the surname blank won't help much as there could be many other blank surnames. Whether Sue had been married or not but the surname with brackets (Baker) that way you will find her if you find she had been married and know her maiden name or if Mary was found to be illegimate just remove the ...

I would describe the children as half siblings. Mary Baker could be the illegimate child of Sue. If that be the case then Sue's maiden name will be Baker. A birth certificate for Mary or her baprism details will see is Sue had been married before or if she is illegitimate

I prefer the displays to be shown vertically because when I do a narrative report and print it the images will cover a page and will be readable. If these are printed horizontally they are squeezed to fit the width of the page. If I want to view the image on my computer I just open them on my softwa...

I too am an admin on rootsweb and recived the message about it ending. To be honest I had completely forgotten about my rootsweb group. That was simply because no messages were posted to it for years. I don't think anyone who was on it wouldn't miss it

In Ancestry Births go up to 2007 and marriages to 2005

Victor

Any children you have will be directly related toyour husbands ancestors. Do you want to deny them from knowing who they are?

If you thypr an address on the search browser youmay find t will come up at the address you are looking for. Just bear in mind many old addresses have disappeared over the years

I get notifications by email like everyone else but I never press the link. I goto my browser where I have a FHUG tab and open that tab. it lists all the notifications I have to read. I then start reading them

Victor

Once you have done a Project back up and if you had some previous back ups do delete the old ones you don't need as they take up space on your hard drive.

Victor

My great grandmother had an illegitimate child (my grandfather) he was baptised with his mother's maiden name. On my tree I left his father's name out. That is is mother is the only name listed and the normal spuses name is blank. His mother later married Charles Markham and they had children. This ...

If you ever back up FH Projects on your PC do delete the old versions otherwise your hard drive will soon be full.
Backing up does not automatically replace the previous back ups

Victor

Forget what I said about FH files. I only mention that under that as particular subject. FH is just one folder. I have a whole list of other bolders under different subjects and these are divided into sub folders, similar to what i have done in my FH folder. By doing this I know where things are and...

Maybe I misunderstood the topic. One asked how they organise files and I was simply stating how I organie files and made special pointes when it came to FH Project. When it comes to surnames I have one file for each surname so I know where the details are. Thatis details of the person I have added t...

This is what I have done for my family files. Under Family Historian Projects folder I have a sub folder called Family Information Under this sub folder I have separate folders with the surnames of those on my family tree, not only their surnames but also certificates with sub folders for Births, Ba...

As far as the UK is concerned always add the county. There are similar named places in different counties. Any places in Yorkshire one needs to add whether it is East, West of North Yorkshire, As an example there is Scalby in North Yorkshire (it is north of Scarborough) there is also Scalby in East ...

I note the name in the box linked to the yellow box is Poulsen. You can put the name //(Poulsen) as the wife That will appear in the yellow box until you find the name. I do this all the time

Victor