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by E Wilcock
02 Aug 2023 12:52
Forum: Installing, Migrating & Upgrading
Topic: The general nightmare
Replies: 2
Views: 974

Re: The general nightmare

In all fairness, I should post that Calico Pie responded at once to my email and, thanks to their help, fh is now uninstalled from the old lap top and installed on the new one.
by E Wilcock
02 Aug 2023 12:07
Forum: Installing, Migrating & Upgrading
Topic: The general nightmare
Replies: 2
Views: 974

The general nightmare

I realise Calico Pie dont want to lose revenue, but I am going out of my mind with repeated failures to to download fh to our new lap top. (an hour of struggling and re-entering passwords)
I have emailed them asking for help but it really shouldnt be this hard.
by E Wilcock
18 Jun 2023 13:57
Forum: General Usage
Topic: West Surrey Users
Replies: 5
Views: 900

Re: West Surrey Users

We live about an hour's drive from Woking. Are you using a Windows PC? If so, I could probably help you. Possibly this could be done over the phone. First I would tell you that you need to copy all your fh folders so you are not working with your main files, but using copies. I am myself not a great...
by E Wilcock
02 Aug 2022 13:21
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Re connecting Media Images
Replies: 2
Views: 803

Re: Re connecting Media Images

Helen, thank you. I keep multiple Projects but will take this one tree at a time. Looking at my paternal Gollin tree, the links seem fine But the pics of each person are not always showing on the focus window. Some are and some are not. If I open the fh sample project, the pics are there on the focu...
by E Wilcock
01 Aug 2022 17:50
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Re connecting Media Images
Replies: 2
Views: 803

Re connecting Media Images

Although I have used fh for years for research databases, I am only now starting to use it for my own family trees previously in TMG. I am having trouble showing the pictures. My fh pictures were linked in fh Version 6 to the pics on my C drive. Since then I have upgraded to fh 7 and in Feb 2020 to ...
by E Wilcock
16 Apr 2022 17:14
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Source/Citaton wndows in fh 7
Replies: 3
Views: 772

Re: Source/Citaton wndows in fh 7

I see. Thank you. Mike. Do you have any suggestions or preferences for positioning it or sizing it? I have the source pane tiled horizontally but if I add a source citation to a fact that opens a further pane called Citation Window and it remains floating there even when it is empty. I have a large-...
by E Wilcock
16 Apr 2022 15:06
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Source/Citaton wndows in fh 7
Replies: 3
Views: 772

Source/Citaton wndows in fh 7

Mike, Many grovelling apologies but please would you repeat the help you gave me over the empty citation window remaining open in fh7 and concealing some data? I cannot seem to find your original post and I am not sure whether I have used the option to run fh 7 like fh 6 (I now cant find that option...
by E Wilcock
05 Mar 2022 14:11
Forum: Research
Topic: birth in India
Replies: 15
Views: 11776

Re: birth in India

My husband's grand mother was born in Poona India. Her father was in the army and forces records may be different. But I seem to remember going to the India Office library (housed in the British Library) where there was a card index. Those were pre digital days. We now have her birth certificate and...
by E Wilcock
24 Feb 2022 12:00
Forum: General Usage
Topic: 'Automatic Source Citation' problems
Replies: 14
Views: 2254

Re: 'Automatic Source Citation' problems

I tried this and you are right. The automatic source is not entered. in 7 0 9

However there is another shortcoming. I dont think one can automatically add two sources to a new event?
One has to add an event, add 2 sources to that and then copy and paste that event complete with the two sources.
by E Wilcock
31 Jan 2022 19:41
Forum: General Usage
Topic: A census query question
Replies: 4
Views: 1417

Re: A census query question

Thank you very much Mike. I do quite a lot of totalling up by hand, so I can count them yes.
What is more, by adding a column I can sort them in different ways.
I will do this tomorrow when I am thinking clearly.
by E Wilcock
31 Jan 2022 09:34
Forum: General Usage
Topic: A census query question
Replies: 4
Views: 1417

Re: A census query question

Do you use only standard Individual Census Events with the appropriate Date to record all census households? Yes. The census Event entry plus source is copied and pasted to everyone in the household. Do you include both the Place and full Address in those Census Events? I put the full street addres...
by E Wilcock
30 Jan 2022 16:28
Forum: General Usage
Topic: A census query question
Replies: 4
Views: 1417

A census query question

I apologise for yet another Query question. But I cant work this out.

Is there a simple Query to find people listed on a census as the sole occupant of a household?

Evelyn Wilcock
by E Wilcock
08 Jan 2022 16:22
Forum: Research
Topic: Viewing 1921 Census Address
Replies: 8
Views: 2420

Re: Viewing 1921 Census Address

Thank you for your guidance. I have now got the cover and address image without paying an additional fee.
by E Wilcock
08 Jan 2022 13:54
Forum: General Usage
Topic: auto source
Replies: 5
Views: 1453

Re: auto source

I use the automatic source facility. When active it adds the selected source to every new fact entry. This is very useful if one is making mass entries from e.g. a census or a prison list. The automatic source facility does not enter an event or attribute. To copy an event, together with its source ...
by E Wilcock
07 Jan 2022 20:18
Forum: Research
Topic: Viewing 1921 Census Address
Replies: 8
Views: 2420

Re: Viewing 1921 Census Address

Thank you very much. I wil give this a go tomorrow.
by E Wilcock
07 Jan 2022 18:08
Forum: Research
Topic: Viewing 1921 Census Address
Replies: 8
Views: 2420

Viewing 1921 Census Address

I would like some advice on using the 1921 census please. I have paid to see the household images of 3 of our grand parents' households. The address at the time of the census is not given on that main list image. It is on the previous page image. Does this mean one has to pay twice for every 1921 en...
by E Wilcock
06 Jan 2022 17:45
Forum: General Usage
Topic: FH for Local History?
Replies: 6
Views: 1485

Re: FH for Local History?

You can use fh for any type of group study. I have used it to look at an artillery brigade from Rugby and Coventry in WW1 and am about to start looking at those same families on the 1921 census. I previously listed my FWW people in MS Access, (when foot-noting a war memoir) but I prefer to use genea...
by E Wilcock
03 Jan 2022 21:03
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Multiple Records Windows or Query Windows
Replies: 16
Views: 4831

Re: Multiple Records Windows or Query Windows

Not the time of day but I have only just seen this and would be interested. I use queries to look at things like emigration and deportation in WW2. So my method has been to use a query to find the people deported on a certain day or to a certain place (or both) and then put them in a named list. I c...
by E Wilcock
11 Dec 2021 20:38
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Exclude a line
Replies: 3
Views: 1229

Re: Exclude a line

You can flag a person as Private.
Or as Living.
The help file explains the effect.
Within events and notes I thought two square brackets at either end of the name or text served for privacy. Jane uses them in her GedMatch DNA system.
by E Wilcock
30 Nov 2021 12:56
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Query for all Relatives?
Replies: 2
Views: 1055

Re: Query for all Relatives?

Thank you Mike.
I am just posting to say it is not worth anyone writing a plug in thank you.
I can sort the information I need by just using queries. Because the number of people who interest me is a very small sub section of a long list and I can use other attributes to get the group I want.
by E Wilcock
30 Nov 2021 11:41
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Query for all Relatives?
Replies: 2
Views: 1055

Query for all Relatives?

I am still looking at deportation and emigration lists. I would like to have a Query for people who were deported with no family or relatives in that deportation. Is there any way of having an all relatives query. To exclude all relatives? Or do I need separate lines to exclude each relative by name...
by E Wilcock
30 Nov 2021 10:03
Forum: General Usage
Topic: All Source / Media documents
Replies: 5
Views: 1339

Re: All Source / Media documents

To clarify. This FHUG is a user run forum with volunteer helpers. Technical questions and ommissions should be taken up and discussed with the authors of the software Calico Pie. I seem to remember that when I wanted to send information about a group of people who took part in a political protest to...
by E Wilcock
27 Nov 2021 18:07
Forum: General Usage
Topic: DNA Matching reports -- Clustering Spreadsheet and Generational Alignment Worksheet
Replies: 4
Views: 1286

Re: DNA Matching reports -- Clustering Spreadsheet and Generational Alignment Worksheet

Helen, It might be useful to adapt this for your average and amateur fh user. I dont understand what you are doing nor what you are advising. The names of these programs and the cost are not known to me. My own gedmatch (ancestry) entry into fh is done using Jane's suggestions but my entry of data i...
by E Wilcock
07 Nov 2021 09:33
Forum: General Usage
Topic: View my family historian data online
Replies: 14
Views: 3028

Re: View my family historian data online

I use Gedstar Pro to put my trees on an Android phone. One used to pay for this software, but when the author retired and no longer offered support, he made it free. One puts Gedstar Pro on ones computer. One can use drop box to transfer the Gedstar trees or tree to ones phone. But once transfered t...
by E Wilcock
31 Oct 2021 19:06
Forum: General Usage
Topic: dies after 1911 cant find not on 1939 Census
Replies: 33
Views: 7310

Re: dies after 1911 cant find not on 1939 Census

The 1939 register is not at the National Archive. It was retained in order to register people in the National Health Service. And any queries about the images ( for instance where vital name information has been cropped off at the margin) have to be forwarded to that agency and are not dealt with in...