Family Historian User Group

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!

David2416 wrote:I would use the white version of BluTac.
Alternatively use cling film to secure to a stiff board, or large book.

David,
I like the cling-film idea! I’d never thought of that, sounds extremely useful
Thanks

Just happened again! Clicked on the e-mail link to view post, taken to login screen, then once logged in, no unread posts!
Very frustrating, as I then have to go hunting for topic, to see if anyone has posted recently.

You could use a hand held scanner. I have one ( ION Copy Cat, handheld scanner) that I can ‘roll’ across a document, and its rollers control the scan. What is good about this method is that it can handle very long document with ease. Also very good for copying small sections of large scale maps, whi...

Mike, Just realised my laptop screen is already full HD and when I hooked it up to my HDTV it was just a perfect replica of my laptop screen, so no advantage except a bigger version. Check your lapton display driver resolution settings. They may not be at their Maximum, simply optimised for size of...

You cannot cut & paste from one tree to another (be nice if you could :D ), which is what I think you’re asking, but you need to do it via a gedcom import. This is the whole point of gedcoms, i.e. transferring data. If you add the records you want to move into a list, you could then export just the ...

Maybe time to invest in a pc with a bigger screen :D or hook up the laptop to the TV . Most digital TV’s make ideal PC monitors. I can’t recommend it highly enough. You wouldn’t believe what you can do with a 40” screen, just give it a try, you’ll be amazed! at the difference it makes! :D NB Check ...

Are you sure you’re looking at all the tabs? You should at least see your signature, because it is there for me to see :D Edit: under the Edit Profile Tab , you have more menu items. The first item is your Profile (like you, all my boxes are empty except Location which is set to Swansea) the next it...

Tony,
Click on your name at top of screen, and select User Control Panel. (rather than Profile.). This opens up a multi-tab page, where you can change preferences, signature, profile etc.

Findmypast uses a reference in the form RG101/0023C/003/31 Letter Code: ABNT The final /31 in above reference number, indicates Line number, and seeing as I use same reference for anyone else on same page, I ignore. My source title for the image is in form Census 1939 - RG101/0023C/003 Letter Code: ...

Valkrider, Exactly what I meant! It is too easy to think John(Jan) is the focus (because he’s highlighted), when Pieter is actually the one shown in property box (and is also highlighted!). With the property box set to facts tab, you may not realise you are dealing with Pieter, and then add a fact m...

The problem is compounded by the fact that the individual is highlighted in the focus window, leaving one to mistakenly think that the individual is also the focus of the property box. This is evidenced by the number of people commenting that they have mistakenly added facts to the wrong person! Som...

View them in the records window, select one then click merge from the edit menu. It will open a dialog box with selected record in right-hand pane. From the left hand pane select the other record you wish to merge, and move that into right hand pane too ( using > ). When you click merge, it will mov...

David, Whilst I understand that different types of records are shown in property box, I can’t see why individuals can’t be synched to focus window! The software is fully aware which type of record is showing in property box, so can easily adjust its behaviour accordingly, so that whilst showing an I...

I don’t enter step children as step-children per se, I just enter them as normal under their biological parents. Their position in the focus window lets me see whose children they are (and whose step-children they are). In the case of illegitimate children of a woman, I create another family for the...