Family Historian User Group

When I get an e-mail notification about a post I’m following, I click the link, and get taken to normal login page, where my username and password have been filled in by my browser (Safari on iPad). When I then click login, I get an error message saying form is incorrect and I am returned to login s...

Following Mike Tates hint about findmypast, I too had a look, and FMP also has a link to the billiongraves website. The billiongraves website has an entry for his burial, the link is :- https://billiongraves.com/grave/H-J-Hill/14520037

It would help if you supplied some more details, like names, dates and locations where known

For the techies amongst us, the root cause of the problem is that Microsoft has two different 'software installation architectures' for Office which are not compatible with each other. Standalone products like Access 2010 use the old one; MS Office H&S 2019 uses the new one. I ran into a similar co...

Thank you for telling me about mysql - I didnt now about that and will look at it before buying the latest MS Access. Mysql works quite happily with Libreoffice, which I use as its front end. So my queries, forms and reports are created in Libreoffice, and access the underlying data held in a Mysql...

A solution is to install opensource (i.e free) software like LibreOffice or OpenOffice. They are both compatible with MS Office, and can readily open their files. Their modules include Database, Word Processor and Spreadsheet and other components, which are as good or better than MS Office. If you a...

You could try finding their GRO birth record. If done via GRO.GOV site, their mothers maiden name will be shown, and settle the argument of who their mother was.

More recently, in legal documents, it was quite common to affix a seal and sign a legal document. These aren’t the usual seals made from red wax and stamped with a fancy seal, but a simple sticky label affixed to the document, and are round in shape an coloured red. I believe there was something pri...

In response to Davidf, you seem to imply this is a recent phenomenon. But I think you’ll find Henry VIII did quite a bit of voiding and annulling. So it is not a case of Gedcom not keeping pace, but failing to cater for it in the first place!

Gowermick How's Windows 3 and Family Historian V1 coming along for you? Surely the world advances and software along with it probably the reason you are using FH6.2.7 and Windows 10 and not a quill and parchment. What would you do if FH went down the ribbon route (which works very well if you give ...

I truly hope CP believes the mantra ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’, which is something Microsoft have never heard of. MS office used to have a clean simple menu system, until MS decided they knew better, and tried to anticipate what the user was trying to do! Sadly, they weren’t as clever as they...

Mike,
Yes it does open exported file in FH, but in a query window, not as a project - my mistake. I just saw the GEDCOM appear on the screen, and didn't realise it wasn't a project.

MikeTate I used your plugin to export an Ancestry gedcom, and following the advice given, did not choose to look at exported file in FH, but chose 'Close memo' instead - BUT it still opened the exported Gedcom file in FH. Is this supposed to happen? and does this action corrupt file as you have warn...

One thing I have noticed with the new site is that after I select my login details from my iPad keyboard, I am immediately logged in, without need of a confirming enter key. This is a welcome but different behaviour from all my other forum sites, where after selecting correct login details, these ar...

Ron, Are you aware that you can actually drag and drop any place name directly on to the map, and it will geocode for you? When geocoding goes drastically wrong and places marker in another country, rather than drag and drop the marker to the correct place, I just drag and drop the place name from t...

That programme suffers the same. They see children missing from home on a census, living with grandparents, and assume they have taken over caring for the children. They can't see that as it is a snapshot for one night, the children may be just visiting their nanny and granddad!

Ann, They never let the truth stand in the way of a good story. They regard us as gullible numpty’s most of the time :D It does pay to read any documents you can see though, that is how I found out one of Len Goodman’s ancestors was sister to one of my direct ancestors. I spotted a familiar name and...

Haha, my thoughts were the same when I saw the programme. Rhyming slang does have its uses

I found the same with my grandfather. What you may want to do next, is track the ships we was discharged from. Also, try checking for a medal index card for him. I found from my grandfather's card, that he served on HMS Ben-My-Chree during WW1. Investigating further, I discovered it was an ex Isle o...

Just checked the seaman discharge number on findmypast ‘Brtain, Merchant Seaman 1818-1941’ recordset, and number 919813 comes back with 4 entries for Robert Major/Magor/Mayo, so the number is indeed his discharge number.

The third entry image, even mentions ‘Laconia’, dated 30 June 193?.

Are you serious that FH does not use a relational dB? It really uses a flat file? That is scary! So performance degraded with size exponentially? How does the software do with large trees? As someone with 18 K ancestors in my tree, I can only say that it handles the data extremely well. Starting FH...

Sky!
What’s that? Haha

Freeview and Freesat suit me fine, I certainly won’t waste my money paying for it anytime soon!
Sorry, a bit off topic, but I couldn’t resist

tatewise wrote:Alternatively, you could treat your relatives to a copy of FH and send them your whole Project

Not a bad idea Mike, might get them interested in Genealogy too!

Well that answers my question Helen. Looks like I will make sure I get a wide screen monitor when I get a new PC. Remember, you’ll pay a lot more for a dedicated PC “Monitor” than you would for a similar size Digital TV which works just as well. Also you can’t use a monitor to watch TV (without a T...

Victor, that is my problem. When I do the same thing, I often find I have no topics that I haven’t read, which is contrary to what e-mail is telling me!