To add to all the confusion, I have noticed that on the odd occasion, the slider goes missing from the screen, and on these rare occasions, the mouse scroll wheel acts like the slider - go figure!

Bill,
This isn’t a new problem, I’ve experienced it many times over the past few months. For example I got it yesterday, but it’s back to normal today. I’m sure it is to do with congestion on their server

BillH, Just spotted your question about meaning of Array . Put simply, an Array is a computer term to describe a list of items. A single dimension Array could hold a simple list, like days of the week A 2 dimension Array could hold a Spreadsheet, where data is reference by Row and Column A 3 dimensi...

Me too!
But it doesn’t happen every time, it comes and goes. I think it might be something to do with how busy the Openstreet server is.(my guess)

Guys, I think we are confusing ourselves. The Cross Hairs are Always there, centred on the map, it is a permanent feature of the map and they never move! The real question is whether the location stays there when using the Slider versus the Scroll Wheel. I say location wanders when using the Scroll ...

Bob, That must have been a coincidence! I just tried it and map moves all over the place when I use scroll wheel! What I didn't realise however (because cross is so insignificant) is that the Cross is a permanent feature of the map. I thought it only appeared when searching for a location, just goes...

I’ve been caught out by that before! It only stays static if you zoom in/out using the slider bar, but not if you use the mouse scroll wheel!
What were you using?

After typing a location into the map search bar, and selecting one of the choices, the map centres the choice on the screen and indicates it with a Very Thin Cross which is barely visible. Is there anyway of making the symbol more prominent, so it is more easily seen, or is this more suited to the w...

Yes. When you work with Addresses, they are listed in alphabtical order, so it is easy to spot houses and potential neighbours in same street. (common street names may not be in same town, but can still be a useful clue).

If they were listed in house number order, not so helpful

The main advantages of separating Place and Address tables is: 1. geocoding is made much simpler. The mapping system uses geocoding to insert the Lattitude and Longitude of a place, so that it can be located accurately on the map. Whilst it may know where Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales is, I doubt i...

If you upload your tree to Ancestry ( for example), Ancestry will provide you with Hints , in much the same way as FH does. Not all these hints will be correct, especially from other peoples trees. My advice, as a newcomer, is to treat all these tree hints as suspect until you’ve verified them for y...

Found a gotcha on this site that users need to be aware of:- Kit Numbers are Case Sensitive ! I entered my Kit as a932104 and top of the results list was a near 100% match to me. It didn't make sense, until I spotted the kit number being compared (shown at top of results table) was NOT a932104, but ...

One tip to aid geo-coding you may not be aware of:
In the map window, you can ‘drag’ a name from the list and ‘drop’ it on the correct spot on the map for greater accuracy.

In the map window, click on a place from the left hand list, to put a marker on the map, then click the marker and a drop-down box will list all facts associated with the place. Sadly, addresses are not so easy, as same address (e.g. High Street) can be associated with many places. Places and Addres...

You don’t need to keep the one with links to it. Keep the one that is nearest to what you wish the final result to look like. In the above examples, you have included part of the address in the placename Bradenham Manor . In this example, I’d create a new one called Bradenham, Buckinghamshire, Engla...

As Miketate suggested, this is where source infomation is useful. As a ‘splitter’, I add the GRO ref as a source, with titles such as GRO B 1867 Q1 Stepney 1C 567 or GRO M 1892 Q1 Newington 1D 523 or GRO D 1925 Q3 Poplar 1c 312 For births, this is used as a source for year, and location of birth, an...

Findmypast has added a useful feature to their search engine, which I found extremely useful.

When searching for results in a particular locality, one can now specify a search radius.
e.g. searching for a baptism in Brewood, Staffordshire, one can now specify the search within 2-20 miles of Brewood.

Mike,
As you say in your second point, I am using the query to identify other things, not just Lastupdated!

I am fully aware you don’t need a query! :D However, I felt it would be handy if a query included an indication in the resultset of when each individual was last updated. It would help to direct my research to those I hadn’t visited for a long while. With updates to on-line databases, it pays to rev...

Is it possible to access the 'Updated' field for an Individual in a query?
It would so useful to see at a glance when individual was last changed.

DUH, didn't see Janes last post

Thanks, Glad it worked out ok.

Are you talking about his appearances in the focus window? He is shown as many times as he has marriages, but if he is shown more than he should, go to the All tab on his property box. You will see his marriages listed, with an indication of who the spouse was for each marriage. In this particular c...

There are many ways to skin this particular cat, and I offer some alternative methods for you to consider: 1.Reverse your thinking and assume evryone has no source, and as you check through them one at a time, add a flag to say they’ve been checked. You can create a query, and exclude those you’ve a...

Lorna, The whole point of the exercise was to prove/disprove a link to Sir Ralph and solve the dispute. . Unless you have his DNA, as Mike said, this exrcise will prove nothing. Yes, you can find more recent common ancestors, thiat is normal DNA research, but it will NOT help proving the link back t...

Having read the other post, original poster disputes the link to Sir Ralph, so it stands to reason he won’t have Sir Ralph in his tree, so any query would be useless. If he has put Sir Ralph in the tree, any other individuals relationship to Sir Ralph can quickly be checked using the ‘How Related’ m...