Family Historian User Group

UPDATE
Freebmd support has acknowleged the problem, and are following it up with their advert suppliers

I have the facebook container for firefox, but will take look at the privay badger, thanks Colin

Putting the Ads ‘flashing’ aside, what I find even more sinister is the amount of information these sites have gathered about us, to personally tailor the ads, after tracking our every move on the internet!

I do this with my brickwalls. I attach a picture of a brickwall via the media tab, and make sure it is moved to the top position, so it is shown by default. When I see the individual in the focus window or in a diagram, the picture is shown. It gives a good visual reminder that the individual is a c...

Firefox AdBlocker add-on installed - did the trick

It would seem you all use ad blockers, so don’t get the adverts. It is not the adverts per se, that I’m complaining about, but the way the are updated, causing the text to jump up and down. I sent an e-mail to support@freebmd.org.uk, if that’s the correct address. Hopefully they’ll sort out the codi...

Anyone getting fed-up with the constant flashing caused by ads on this site? (Three per page seems a bit over the top!) Whilst ads pay for the site, for which I'm thankful, FreeBMD has got it completely wrong! :twisted: Whilst most sites reserve a discrete space/box for the advert to appear, FreeBMD...

Miketate,
I think he means Mum & Dad

I think you’re worrying about the wrong gender! There is no upper age limit for a man to father a child, (wasn’t Charlie Chaplin 73 when he fathered his youngest child?), but biology tells us most women become infertile by 40-50 years of age, with a few exceptional women having a natural birth in th...

The only way I found was to merge it with another place, ensuring you make sure the other place is highlighted and becomes the result of the merge!
Sadly you can only do this one at a time, because FH objects if you select more than two places to merge!

Whilst I fully endorse your comments about FH as far as genealogy goes, there is another program called Genopro, which you may find better suited for tracking medical history, as it is aimed more to tracking patterns than a pure genealogy program. Well worth a look

I tend to work slightly differently to jbtapscott, and don’t have any problems staying logged in to FMP for a couple of days at least, although I do tend to logout after each session. When I start a genealogy session, I start FH, then login to FMP at the same time in my browser. Then when I click on...

Further to Brent's answer, if you think about it, Ancestry got their Images from WYAS, where did WYAS get them from? This could be a never ending cycle, ending up with the Parish Church, and that is what I usually quote, with a note to say image came from Ancestry. or FMP or FamilySearch etc. Once I...

Personally I don’t bother. A lot of parish register entries on Ancestry for Yorkshire clearly come from the West Yorkshire Archive Service (WYAS), but I just note image came from Ancestry.

David, I utilise addresses separately from places, but ensure the street name precedes the house number . e.g. “High Street, 56”, or “Long Lane, 12”. Then, as I enter an address, the autocomplete mechanism in FH reminds me if the street name and number has been used before, so I can investigate furt...

A good tip when using brackets, is to check that they pair up. So if you have 3 opening brackets, you should have 3 matching closing brackets. This can be easy to miss when using complicated expressions, or cutting and pasting, but is really easy to check. So the answer to your question is yes, ther...

so I can receive new match hints (a noticeable gap in FH's features compared with RM and FTM). What’s wrong with hints from FH? That works well with FMP, and doesn’t require you have a tree there. It would provide hints to Ancestry too, if Ancestry didn’t charge so much for access ( so I understand)

Notwithstanding lack of info on FH7, what is wrong with recommending FH6? Buying FH6 now, you still get an upgrade to FH7 when it does appear, but in meantime you have use of FH6, which in my opinion, is still better than FTM. After migrating from FTM to FH6, coudn’t pay me enough to go back to FTM :D

Pedant that I am, one could argue that first ‘marriage’ wasn’t a marriage at all, as it was null and void, being as groom was already married

I recently upgraded Windows to the latest release (Windows 10 Home, Version 2004, OS Build 19041.460) Just checked my Windows Version and it is slightly different from above. Mine is Windows 10 Home, Version 2004, OS Build 19041. 450 , or is yours a typo? (With experience pack 120.2212.310 - whatev...

Miketate, I’m not on my PC, that’s why I didn’t know my windows version

What Mike forgot to mention, is that FH has an undo feature, so even if you delete something in error, you can immediately click Edit/undo and the action can be reversed. NB This action only applies within a session. FH forgets your action history when you close FH, so remember to undo any mistake a...

I don’t know what my current Windows version is ( I updated a few days ago), but I did experience a sudden shutdown of firefox, FH and file explorer the other day, but assumed I had mistakenly pressed a wrong key combination. I’ll keep an eye open and see if it re-occurs, and report if it happens ag...

=CombineText( " AN ",AhnentafelNumber( FileRoot(), %INDI%, 1 ) ) =CombineText( " AN ",AhnentafelNumber( Record(6, "I"), %INDI%, 1 ) ) John, Miketate has inadvertantly confused you. What he was trying to say was, that if you were the root, you’d could use the first expression. The problem with that ...

John, I too, use the Ahnetafel Number (AN) in my tree, and wanted it displayed. My solution was done in 2 steps. 1. Assign the AN to a custom ID * 2. Adjust property box to display the Custom ID above the name (see screenshot) 3. Add custom ID to display in the caption of the property * To keep cust...