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by RS3100
22 Feb 2024 11:09
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Custom Facts
Replies: 12
Views: 582

Re: Custom Facts

For anyone who is not aware, this is an excellent site for information on Workhouses and Children's Homes.

https://www.workhouses.org.uk/
by RS3100
03 Dec 2023 09:31
Forum: Diagrams & Charts
Topic: Setting box features using data reference for DNA witness role
Replies: 21
Views: 1353

Re: Setting box features using data reference for DNA witness role

I don't know if this will help on a slightly different tack, but ignore if not! I use a version of Jane's GEDmatch fact and associated query for DNA matches. I've set a box condition for individuals who have a GEDmatch fact, which adds a specific colour to the box border and displays a flag accordin...
by RS3100
11 Nov 2023 10:41
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Generic or custom or interesting fact type
Replies: 9
Views: 1045

Re: Generic or custom or interesting fact type

I have the same as Adrian, except that I call it "Misc Event".
by RS3100
22 Oct 2023 16:05
Forum: Ancestral Sources
Topic: 1939 Register
Replies: 23
Views: 1286

Re: 1939 Register

I have recently adopted the following: "Sorry I don't remember my date of birth, but YOU have it on that piece of paper infront of you. So perhaps you could remind me?" It doesn't go down well. I doubt that it does. They are obliged to confirm that you are the person whose details they ha...
by RS3100
20 Oct 2023 14:14
Forum: Ancestral Sources
Topic: 1939 Register
Replies: 23
Views: 1286

Re: 1939 Register

I agree that the census fact is the best fit for recording information from the 1939 register. But from a previous post on this forum, I cribbed alterations to the census fact sentence template and record window listing which edit the census fact so that records from the 1939 register are shown as s...
by RS3100
13 Oct 2023 09:45
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Date range on property box facts tab
Replies: 60
Views: 3368

Re: Date range on property box facts tab

I have to say that I fully agree with Helen and Adrian. I've always regarded the details in the fact tab as a summary, and as with any other information shown in the list, it is easy to see the full details, whether that be of the date, the place, the event or attribute itself, by clicking on the re...
by RS3100
03 Oct 2023 14:19
Forum: Research Planning
Topic: Research analysis and conclusions
Replies: 30
Views: 2250

Re: Research analysis and conclusions

I add such individuals to a named list, "Unconfirmed Relatives", together with a box expression to show a question mark against those list members in charts and diagrams. A note attached to the individual record explains the evidence that supports or suggests the relationship, and the reas...
by RS3100
22 Sep 2023 15:56
Forum: General Usage
Topic: {'statusCode':400,'error':'Bad Request','message':'Invalid cookie header'
Replies: 60
Views: 10582

Re: {'statusCode':400,'error':'Bad Request','message':'Invalid cookie header'

Same in Chrome/Win 10. I have had to login much more frequently for some weeks now, and I have seen others mention the same on a different forum. Also some users reporting that FH is crashing now when they attempt to view FMP hints. I wonder if that has resulted from their attempts to fix the invali...
by RS3100
20 Sep 2023 09:01
Forum: Research
Topic: Death certificate research question
Replies: 21
Views: 2692

Re: Death certificate research question

It will show the name of the informant, who notified the death to the registrar. That may or may not be a family member depending on the circumstances or location of the death. It might also state that the deceased was the husband of {name}, but again it may not. There was no requirement to record a...
by RS3100
25 Aug 2023 09:25
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Julian calendar dates at end of a century
Replies: 17
Views: 1564

Re: Julian calendar dates at end of a century

I have seen similar on more than one occasion, but after finding an image of the original register or document, it became apparent that one transcript had already converted the date to the Gregorian calendar, and the second transcript had presumably be made from the first transcript or a similar cop...
by RS3100
25 Aug 2023 09:10
Forum: General Usage
Topic: {'statusCode':400,'error':'Bad Request','message':'Invalid cookie header'
Replies: 60
Views: 10582

Re: {'statusCode':400,'error':'Bad Request','message':'Invalid cookie header'

I get the 400 error occasionally with Find My Past hints in the internal browser. Reloading the page usually fixes it (the circular arrow button to the left of the address bar in the internal browser window) but if not I choose to open the page in my external browser (the three small dots to the upp...
by RS3100
07 Aug 2023 15:17
Forum: Genealogy News
Topic: Ancestry Discount
Replies: 14
Views: 2503

Re: Ancestry Discount

When the subscription period ends Mike.
by RS3100
07 Aug 2023 14:05
Forum: Genealogy News
Topic: Ancestry Discount
Replies: 14
Views: 2503

Re: Ancestry Discount

No, the link I referred to in my previous post is for an offer of a 12 month worldwide subscription for £89.99. It seems to only work reliably if you have let your subscription lapse, as it is intended for "new" subscribers, although as I mentioned I successfully accessed it about a month ...
by RS3100
07 Aug 2023 13:11
Forum: Reports, Books & Websites
Topic: Narrative Report Sentence Structure
Replies: 3
Views: 850

Re: Narrative Report Sentence Structure

This is from the list of version updates for FH 7.0.18, which expands on Lorna's post. Since the last release, Family Historian now has two sentence template codes – {note} and {inline-note} – where previously it just had one ({note}). When generating sentences and sentence templates for narrative r...
by RS3100
26 Jul 2023 17:34
Forum: Diagrams & Charts
Topic: Chart family lines
Replies: 15
Views: 1372

Re: Chart family lines

There were a number of fixes to crossing lines and box placement made by CP in earlier V7 updates. I know because I reported some of them, and saw at least one additional issue reported in the forum that was also fixed. It may be worth reporting it to CP just in case. If they can verify an unintende...
by RS3100
26 Jul 2023 10:00
Forum: Research
Topic: Birth certificate not found at GRO England
Replies: 20
Views: 5852

Re: Birth certificate not found at GRO England

I assumed from Victor's post that he's referring to copies of the original parish register marriage entries that LMA hold. if you order a marriage certificate from GRO you get a copy of the same register entry on a fancy piece of paper. But I'm not sure about them being freely available at LMA. Many...
by RS3100
24 Jul 2023 15:42
Forum: Research
Topic: Birth certificate not found at GRO England
Replies: 20
Views: 5852

Re: Birth certificate not found at GRO England

And it's also always possible the clerk at the district registration office made an error...ALL documents contain the possibility of error. Yes, of course that is also true, and the informant could also have lied. But the local district copy, if it is an image of the original register, is as close ...
by RS3100
24 Jul 2023 06:42
Forum: Research
Topic: Birth certificate not found at GRO England
Replies: 20
Views: 5852

Re: Birth certificate not found at GRO England

And the original handwritten register entries are held by district registration offices. The copies held by GRO are also transcripts, laboriously copied from the original records by the registrars and periodically sent to GRO. The GRO copies can also contain errors as in the example I mentioned here...
by RS3100
07 Jul 2023 09:04
Forum: Genealogy News
Topic: Ancestry Discount
Replies: 14
Views: 2503

Re: Ancestry Discount

A newer link to a worldwide subscription for £89.99 has recently been posted on the RootsChat forum. As with the previous similar offer, it is intended for new subscribers, but I used the previous offer successfully after allowing my subscription to lapse for 24 hours. I'm not sure that it would be ...
by RS3100
26 Jun 2023 08:34
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Birth and Birth Registration
Replies: 15
Views: 1300

Re: Birth and Birth Registration

Not quite. Neither of them are copies of certificates. The certificates they provide to order are copies of the register entries. Local registration offices usually have the original registers, and can provide certificates which often, but not always, contain an image of the original entry. I have L...
by RS3100
12 Jun 2023 16:58
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Splash screen in v7.0.21.0
Replies: 3
Views: 597

Re: Splash screen in v7.0.21.0

Ah. On both machines FH when restored down occupies the right half of the screen, so that I can still refer to and enter data into it whilst viewing information in the left half. I'm not going to change that just to reposition the splash screen, so I guess I'll just have to live with it. It would ha...
by RS3100
12 Jun 2023 14:14
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Splash screen in v7.0.21.0
Replies: 3
Views: 597

Splash screen in v7.0.21.0

The list of updates for version 7.0.21.0 includes an adjustment to the behaviour of the splash screen for multiple monitors. "If you have multiple monitors, the Splash screen did not always appear where the main window would appear. It now appears centred on where the ‘restored’ (i.e. when not ...
by RS3100
15 May 2023 08:51
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Recording a death at sea
Replies: 6
Views: 3838

Re: Recording a death at sea

Not a death, but my GF was at sea on the night of the 1921 census. I edited the fact sentence to simply <para>{note}<para> and the fact note reads, "He appeared in the census on 19 June 1921 as a Signalman on board HMS Cleopatra, a light cruiser of the Royal Navy, then serving in the Atlantic F...
by RS3100
10 May 2023 17:26
Forum: Research
Topic: Edit of Marriage record
Replies: 23
Views: 2945

Re: Edit of Marriage record

The Vicar is quite interesting. George Townsend MARKER, an alumni of Balliol College, Oxford. Vicar of Uffculme from 1833 until his death on 4th December 1874. He apparently assumed the surname of SMITH in lieu of MARKER at some stage. Both names can be found in the same register as the marriage und...
by RS3100
08 May 2023 12:33
Forum: Sources, Citations & Repositories
Topic: Recording the sources for a relationship.
Replies: 29
Views: 4701

Re: Recording the sources for a relationship.

Ah, then I have misunderstood the role definition. Having spent many years assessing evidence and preparing documents for criminal proceeding though, it still seems odd to me, although I can now see the difference. I must admit that I have never used the witness role in the way you describe in my pr...