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Mike, Thanks for reminding me of that. I have looked at it in the past and just uploaded again. However, in terms of viewing all the details of an individual (e.g. facts+notes + source+source detail etc etc) I find it nearly as pedantic as Ancestry.com. The detail is all there but as with Ancestry i...

Since the effective demise of Rootsweb WorldConnect trees (the replacement "WorldConnect Beta" is rather pathetic by comparison, let's hope it will eventually include all the Gedcom data and display options as well as the original) I have looked around for a replacement. There is of course Ancestry'...

Thanks Mike and everyone else on this topic. Can of worms, and as ever lots of work for those in the legal etc professions (can't blame them for doing their job). Reminds me of one of those Orwellian states where if the authorities (or rich individuals) wants to get you, there will be some law they ...

sorry to be late to this topic,

So, if I share "living" digital information via an email or say onedrive to selected person(s) via a non public link with/without a password. Is that OK.

I can imagine that if another person then made it public, they might be in trouble.

I went though an exercise finding what were the "safest common" symbols to use in filenames across platforms and came to this limited sad result, I also excluded some symbols that cause probems elsewhere. I found Mapping Cloud Storage as a Local Drive in File Explorer and comparing filenames a big p...

Jane: [] thanks for clearing up the "family" situation. I suspect that while a "how related" shows the male as the connection in a report, the diagram shows both male and female. I would imagine statistically it is safer to use the female, especially regarding DNA. To "prove" the male, one would nee...

I am also starting to look at recording DNA connections data. I may implement Jane's ideas but first a few queries and possible alternatives/ suggestions/ queries. [1] I've looked around at other family tree programs and can't seem to find any consensus on how to record DNA connections, there are od...

I do not see why they cannot offer it to the likes of Ancestry and findmypast to transcribe. Most of the data cannot be confidential, for instance the Marriage detail is the same as that provided via the parish registers (which are often the source). Is it a source of great income (that is obviously...

Sorry this response a bit late. I give everyone in my database a birth date (or at least a year). If I do not know, an estimate makes things so much more manageable, links the person to a "time period", makes excluding potential "living" easier. An estimate, is just that, it is not incorrect. In res...

bit of a late response as usual. It all depends on your definition of All Relatives. I think: Jane's version is "presumed blood" relatives Mike's version is a whole lot more with extended families of spouses (not sure how far it would go). I think my attached version has all "presumed blood" relativ...

Apologies, got that the wrong way round or at least badly worded: Should be something like: The advantage of reports created and perused 'within' FH is that they update in real time if you make changes. With the Publish for Web, CD or DVD, or reports saved outside of FH (e.g. pdf, rtf), there is no ...

As Mike says, depends what you want of course. Most of the reports will let you include whichever people you want and create a pdf, but this could be very large. If you do not wish to print, but peruse some output try: Publish > Create a website with Individual Summary Report (for Web, CD or DVD). (...

Bit late I'm afraid but: How about Publish > Create a website with Individual Summary Report (for Web, CD or DVD) . (Or your bespoke version or outline descendant for each individual for say 5 generations, or a doctored narrative). You could copy this to your USB stick and any browser will then be a...

Yes, I find the FMP transcription more useful (they are usually better at it than me!), but as with the census, the Ancestry search seems to get obscure name transcriptions better, whereas I can spend ages trying to find an FMP item, even when I know it is there! In consequence I often find in Ances...

if you get a flatbed scanner such as Canon 9000F mark 2 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Canon-CanoScan-9000F-Colour-Scanner/dp/B00BQ9Z00E/ or the Epsom V500 mentioned by Mike above (There are others like them and better): These are designed to scan transparencies + slides etc, and they have a built in back...

thanks mjashby. As regards FH and the problem above, I don't think that Bullzip PDF Printer is any better than the built in FH PDF printer, they both use the same procedure for a custom page size, (as do many/most? other PDF printers, inc Adobe), and both save the custom page changes. However it doe...

Mike, thanks for the Alt confirmation. Just experimented with the page setup. Your Family Historian PDF 'printer' advice works well, but as you suggest the quirk is that it also affects other printers 'within FH' while it is the default windows! The Family Historian PDF 'printer' is the only Windows...

When researching it is nice to produce a quick report of all of an individuals/family information. Fairly standard, produce a report with your desired info, one really good advantage is that they update in real time within FH, no need to keep regenerating them. The problem is this can take many keys...

not sure if this will help, but might be a starting point. Whenever I "lose/misplace" a file I search my system with ultrasearch (for files much much faster than windows file explorer) https://www.jam-software.de/ultrasearch/?language=EN also here for automatic updates: https://www.ugmfree.it/SyMenu...

Apart from AS and manual creation, I use plugin 'Create a 2-way Association' (from FHUG DavidNewton20140720) at 11338|2-way associations For display I used: - The Associations tab for the Property Box (as mentioned by Mike earlier) as in fhugdownloads:contents:property_box_tabs_associated_persons|> ...

I very much believe in creating a clone rather than syncing, so for me the important thing would be a good FH/Gedcom viewer. So for me your 'note' idea sounds good, however what might be more flexible (and already written) would be 'pushing?' the note to say Google keep (which can also record images...

carolynps - why just send your father's side of the tree, he might be related to "other" sides of the tree! Mike - GEDmatch https://www.gedmatch.com/login1.php , very interesting. It is a pity it is not more widely known with more peoples uploads, seems a bit techie, no bells and whistles, but just...

A very interesting topic, one I have grappled with for years in the walking/fell running arena. I used to be a big adherent to "OS map refs" but once you start looking outside the UK it is of no use and certainly not a universal solution to anything, however 'out in the field' with a paper map, in t...

OK If it's a query you want, the last entry on this post has a couple of queries, just download them, click on them to install in FH and see how they work:
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This is not my area but I know there is Auto Repair Links

This old post has some good pointers:
Plugin to check external file links (15393)
Don't forget the Help for the Auto Repair Links.