Family Historian User Group

A plugin isn’t really necessary. Call the two individual A and B . If only one of these two currently exist, create a new individual B Copy each fact from A then paste to B , then delete original fact from A. Work your way through each fact, and slowly move the misplaced facts from A to B . Personal...

Don’t despair. Some sites send a confirming e-mail, with a link you have to click to confirm your e-mail is correct before allowing you to continue with their site. Others have a moderator, who has to ‘approve’ your registration for the same reason. Either case may be preventing you from logging in!...

The simple answer is yes. You can add an ‘unrelated’ individual at any time. This enables you to add mini-trees, completely independant of each other, all in the same project. I’m not at my PC at the moment, so cannot explain exactly how, but it is one of the basic commands, how else can you start a...

David, I stick to the KISS principle, and keep it as simple as possible. 1. As a lumper, I treat the whole census sheet as the source, ignoring the schedule number, so that the same source can be used for anyone on the same page! Taking miketates example, for the source, I would use Census 1851-HO10...

Miketate, Quite right, I meant the project statistics results. Since posting, I discoved the filters you mentioned, so I’ll just go through each in turn, cleaning my data up. If I stick to exporting one type of warning at a time, using the filters you suggested, the resultant named lists would be us...

Can the file statistic records be saved to a name list? EDIT: I can get a list of names, but it doesn't tell me what the error is - very frustrating I wish to work my way through them, deleting them as I go. Currently, to get updated lst, I have to re-run plugin, which takes over 5 mins each time, s...

I think Jane has it right, i.e. “Propor”. The shape of the P matches the shape of the top half of the R.

My tree is similar but with the parents of the spouses (to help identify if the spouse you are looking at is the correct person for an online tree like ancestry I just add a note to the spouse, stating who his/her parents were for just that reason, but I don’t actually add them to my tree. The exce...

I eventually applied restrictions to my tree, as it was getting a bit silly, number wise. I was adding anyone who married into my family, then anyone who married into theirs etc etc. To keep it simple, I now restrict my tree to anyone who potentially shares DNA with my grandsons (the roots of my tre...

William, Take a look at tribalpages.com. As you can see from my signature below, I have two trees on there. A basic tree is free, and a quick look on the site will give an idea of costs of other versions, each with various limitations. The FH export plugin will allow you to export a gedcom from FH, ...

Now why didn't I think of that!
Yes, that seems to be the reason, the other partners seems to be the problem.
Thanks Mike

MikeTate, can you throw any light on why I am getting these warnings? It is highlighting the marriage dates, with the following warning: "Fact Date is earlier than the Individual's earliest expected marriage date, given their birth date." Samples include Born 1816, Marriage in 1836 Born 1828, Marria...

Ah, shame. I thought it something you could trap. In a similar vein, I'm getting a few warnings where an individual's Christening is too close to their first childs birth date, because individual wasn't christened as a child, but later, sometimes just before they married. Can I assume this is also d...

Miketate, Seeing original post, thought I'd run the plugin myself, and I am both pleased and disapponted with the number of errors it has found, most of which I have let creep in over the years. Just come across one error that you may want to consider for the future. It is reporting "Fact Date is ea...

Billh, It is worth remembering tht Familysearch (FS) have a lot of images that aren’t indexed, so don’t appear during a normal person search. If you login (it’s free and not tied to LDS membership) and do a catalogue search for the town you’re interested in (specifying on-line only), FS will present...

Following on from Lorna’s advice, about how to copy and paste a fact (which I regularly use). Remember, this copies both fact and source, so apart from altering age of individuals, don’t forget to alter the source for those members of a family who may be on next page of census. I use a similar metho...

Surely dependent on the census year , Scholar (if interpreted correctly) shows whether they are at school instead of school age. Not all children were lucky to go to School. Indeed. I’ve seen many a 7 year old working in cotton mills or coal mines! Personally, I always record the ‘Scholars’, as tha...

HaHa,
I think you must be referring to me. I got a BSc(hons) degree in my 50’s, following my retirement from BT. At the time, providing you had suffcient qualifications to apply, degrees courses were free, and it beat having pay to study Computing. Don’t think I’d bother now, much too expensive

I can see problems with storing image file Path location in the citation. What if you want to re-organise your files? You’ll then have to modify each citation, a potentially mammoth task. Would it not be simpler to give image a filename (such as the GRO reference) and then just store this reference ...

Being a tightwad by nature, I always look for opensource software. The one I use for managing photos etc is GIMP (General Image Manipulation Program). It is a sophisticated program, and does most thing you may want to do. Do a Google search for Gimp2.

Adrian,
I said a burial infers a death, not a gravestone

I’d like to comment on Miketate’s statement that burial age is usually stored on Death fact. Personally, where burial record states age, I store it against the burial not the Death. Believe it or not, they don’t always match, GRO saying one thing, burial record saying another :D . When they do match...

Despite all the good advice offered so far, the one simple thing missing that I haven’t seen mentioned is ‘Named Lists’. I run a query that lists only my direct ancestors, then copy the results into a Named List called ‘Direct Ancestors’ . I can then include this list in any other query, to restrict...

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