Family Historian User Group

Burial records give the date of burial rather than the death date, though they were usually only a few days apart before refrigeration. However people are not always buried where they died or lived. One family in our local churchyard proudly recorded on each headstone 'from xxxxxx', and some of them...

Hi, Yes it is the thumbcache that is excluded. Thanks for the explanation re zip files, my media files must be at least 95% .jpg or .png so that makes sense to me. I had another go at uploading to Google drive, at first the time was going to be correct according to the speed and at first the time re...

Hi I have been having trouble saving my backup zip folders to my google cloud - it seems to just hang, and to my 32gb usb stick - it tells me there is no room even though there is lots when I check. Whilst investigating I have noticed that the backup zip files seem to be the same size as the data th...

Thank you very much all of you, I should have thought to look at the probate index, but I hadn't realised that London Gazette is available - another thing to add to my favourites list. Thinking back to my father's apparent lack of knowledge of the change of partner, in May 1945 he had just arrived h...

Can anyone tell me what letters and numbers on the attached snippet mean re Mary M Billyeald? I know she married A Waddington in 1941 and her name on her death certificate in 1949 was Mary Frampton, and she was described (in the column 'rank or profession' as 'formerly the wife of A, Waddingham from...

Many thanks for all your speedy responses. The family lived in the middle of Nottingham, on Angel Row, he was a jeweller and, according to Google, it is a 3 minute walk to Nottingham City Council, which I assume would be where he went. So perhaps it was something he could actually do whilst the doct...

I have just come across a relative who was born and died on the same day, in February 1877. He only lived for 5 minutes, cause of death 'Exhaustion'. His birth and death were registered on that same day by his father and I just wondered if the father had had to make that terrible immediate trip to t...

Ann, ' Hi it can depend if the householder was literate. If not, the enumerator would be asking the question and it all depended on how he asked. He might not have asked if the servant was a relative or phrased it in that way. Even if the householder filled in the form it would be a matter of how he...

Another instance of this is people designated as 'servants'. I have found several cases where the servant has the same surname as the wife's maiden name and later turns out to be her sister. Her relationship to the head of the household (the husband) is really sister in law so it must be significant...

OK, thanks.

I generally like to have a chart open in FH when entering data into AS, as it allows me to see the results, after I have saved, in the layout I prefer. However when I save AS data and it updates FH, my selected chart closes and the Focus window opens, so I have to go into Views/Saved Charts to resel...

My father also started the family research and I became hooked when he passed it over to me, though not until I had retired. So far none of my relatives are interested but then they haven't retired yet. At the moment - I have printed off the various branches of the family tree (brief details) and pu...

I agree that it looks like Xmas, though not sure I would have if Mike had not put the idea into my head.

Hi Bill
I joined the FindaGrave user group and asked the question there, they told me I need to make a separate entry for each person in the grave. Time will tell whether their user group is as good as this one.
Just waiting for the weather to improve to make a proper start.

Yes we could put them on a second site, or perhaps put them into a spreadsheet to keep in our Friends group data (the Friends group is a sub-section of the parish council so if the group folds we could put the data on there). Actually this would be quite easy since I could just copy and post the epi...

I am sorry I haven't replied to you before, I forgot all about it over Christmas/New Year and since then have been concentrating on tidying up some of my data on FH. However I have now got back to it by entering some test data onto Findagrave and Billiongraves. Findagrave is definitely easier, it al...

Thanks for your comments. I knew that FindaGrave was purchased some years ago by Ancestry who swore at that time to keep it free for use, in accordance with the wishes of its creator, but of course that might not last for ever. I hadn't realised that FindaGrave is accessible via Family Search. I mig...

Thanks to both of you for your comments. I have had a look at site Gravestonephotos but I think Find a Grave looks more suited to our purpose as I would like to record the actual inscription rather than just the details of the names dates etc. I will have a play around more but I think you have conf...

Hi I belong to a group of Friends of the local (redundant) church and (closed) graveyard and we would like to put the memorial inscriptions online, so that they are free to view. There are about 350 graves so not too onerous a task. We are trying to decide whether it would be better to put them on a...

OK, thanks.

When FMP opens after I have selected someone and the pre-filled fields have included name and date to search from, the default location always shows as World, which I then have to change to England. Is it possible for the default to be set to, say, England? (If I go into FMP directly from the intern...

I went on a course about reading old documents and, as well as the tip before about the scribble at the end of rows to make them all the same length, he recommended the following: Number each row on the text to be interpreted. Number each row on your interpretation, and keep them the same, so if you...

Thanks Lorna for the tip re the diagram - have been saving them but never noticed I could tweak them like that - what a wally I am!

Thanks to Mike for Quick Family Facts final version.

Hi Mike Yes, I think it would be useful, thanks. :D Lorna - Yes I use diagrams all the time too, they can be selected/ changed in multiple ways re size, shape, content etc. However all that takes time, and this QFF report allows a speedy and clear presentation of the main facts. See the 2 attachment...

Looks excellent Mike, as always. ...... I don't suppose there is any way to be able to click on the data in the property box without first closing the Quick Facts window? Having run one as a test I am now wondering exactly what my source was for some of the data and it would be good to be able to fi...