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I got my timing wrong It was actually on screen for 7-8 seconds, 2-3 seconds longer than it took project to load!
(Just seemed like 10+ seconds )

Having programmed these things, I can say that they're often set to display for a fixed time which doesn't depend on the PC or file size, but is aimed at the non-existent 'average'. Me too, but I was always under the impression that splash was synonymous with flash, i.e a Quick almost subliminal po...

OK, I'll have to live with it. But one does wonder why it is displayed for quite so long. My FH7 fully loads my 20,000+ tree, and splash screen still displays for another 3 or 4 seconds!

Anyone know how to hide the Splash Screen on Startup?
I looked through preferences, but can't see an optionn to turn it off!

The general perceived wisdom is not to split your project, but to keep the groups together in one big tree. There is always the chance that inter-marriages took place in the past, and having a single tree avoids duplication of individuals and so keeping the different trees in sync. You’ll find no ad...

Peter,
If people can’t differentiate between Their and There, or Too and To, what hope that they can handle full stops in abbreviations?

It did take me two attempts

Lorna, I was referring to the original post, where OP was complaing about his header. I was just saying I get exactly the same NB I had to be pretty quick with screen capture :D :D FH Startup Banner.jpg This is before Default Project loads. i.e. it seems normal behaviour, as all my projects are in m...

That appears to be the default Banner Heading whilst default project loads. All I can say is that FH7 seems to take longer to load my project than it did in FH6, so banner is perhaps more obvious, due to delay in starting . I just restarted my project, and I get exactly the same banner whilst projec...

With Road, Street etc, I use the full word without abbreviation. For a church, I tend to omit the ‘s, as some are shown with it and some without. Autotext entry helps in this regard, as once a name is entered, I tend to accept whatever autotext suggests. As for the period after St, I omit this too, ...

Personally, I would begin by adding them as unrelated individuals to your current project. Then, If, further down the line you see a link, you could easily attach/link them to an existing individual, as opposed to merging them if they were in separate projects. As you develope your one name study, y...

I too have been having trouble over the past few days. Have assumed it’s their end.

Whilst we may disagree on the ideal screen layout, everyone having their own preferences I feel I ought to comment on your 1939 register entry, as you seem to be ignoring the address, something you may come to regret in the future. Personally I like to see if the address has any significance. Was it...

I have a similar situation, where the father changed his name (I do not know whether by deed poll or otherwise) . His marriage and his daughter were registered using his original names, but a subsequent son was registered under his newly assumed surname. I adopt the principle of recording everone us...

In the records window, at top are filters for both given name and surnames. Simply enter surname, and all people with that surname will be listed, then by adding given name, you can narrow the list down to the person you’re after. The filters start to work as soon as you start typing, so you only ne...

My personal preference for recording unknown surnames of female spouses (spice? :D ) is to use the form Mary /Smith Nee ??/. This ensure that I can differentiate between all the Mary’s whose surnames I don’t know, when looking at the records list. Pedants among you will need to accept I have omitted...

tatewise wrote: ↑

22 Dec 2020 14:29

She knows you know!

Not on the map? You should try being born, brought up and living in the Black Country. Some of us know where the Black Country is. It's where Enoch and Eli live... Birmingham girl ducks and runs... But what about Beryl Reid and Marlene. Don’t suppose many of you are old enough to remember them :D

You could just change the name of your query, to differentiate it from the standard one
You need to save your query as a custom query, giving it the new name. Then delete the original

It happens, but there is a simple solution.
With map open on Northowram, just drag the name in left hand column, ( however you’ve entered it) and drop it on the map on the corrcet place.
Not only will it place the marker correctly, it will also update the geocode for you.

The autohotkey I was referring to is a standalone utility, details can be found here: https://www.autohotkey.com/ I have created an instruction file that enters full date for the different censuses. Like you I was getting fed up trying to remember the dates. This file is run at startup, so the short...

But I never need to have the Query window so narrow that the results count disappears, because most of the columns in the result set diasppear too. And there is no overlapping display in that case. Do you see the same overlapping that I see in the citation window? Have you done something to your ci...

Lorna,
Similar occurs at bottom of Resultset pane in the Query window. Too narrow and you lose the result count!
CP have been informed

David,
I think it was deliberate, considering they are less than 100 year old. Does seem pointless though, as Freebmd don’t consider that a problem

Edit: Apparently mothers maiden name will come up if you enter it as a search term, confirming you have correct entry.

Sorry, but I misread your original post, thinking you just wanted an easy way to fill in the gaps between standard phrases with accented words. Nevertheless, you could programme Autohotkey to insert your standard phrases, leaving you to fill in the blanks in between. So it may still be useful. I do ...