I believe the reason for this behaviour is simply the USA Centric nature of Ancestry's place matching/mapping, especially when no country name has been specified by whoever input the place details. I have tested this in Family Tree Maker in the past and the 'preference' for USA locations is identica...

@Toonalook, Two comments: - Make sure you have Microsoft Fonts installed in the PlayOnMac package you've created. - .Net Framework 3.5 isn't required by Family Historian, but is required if you intend to install the Ancestral Sources companion program in the same package. Crossover installation is, ...

I believe the 'reference number' you mention is the Folio Number allocated by the Court Service when a request is made for Probate. It is only likely to be of use to the Court Service in finding the documentation. As far as greater detail is concerned, you would have to purchase a copy of the Probat...

Mike, Whilst I haven't lived in 'London', a lot of my 19th century paternal research is based on the Islington and St Pancras areas and yes, looking at what those areas are like now, it's difficult to get a clear grasp of the fact that in the first half of the 1800's Islington was still a largely ru...

There are some useful London boundary maps on this Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London which can be helpful in providing a Guide to what people traditionally meant (and in some cases still mean) by 'London', i.e. the City of London. Note that the 1805 Map shows an already ex...

I believe there is a lot of misunderstanding about the nature of PDF documents, the main one being that a PDF is just another 'simple' method of presenting 'images', i.e. similar to jpg, png etc., but, in reality, the format is far more complex; and is essentially, uneditable in its final production...

Back to the OP's original question; and as no-one appears to have mentioned it, there is a prepared Change of Name Fact set in the Knowledge Base see: fhugdownloads:contents:name_change_fact_set|> Fact Set ~ Name Changes which can be used and this reduces the amount of thought/effort needed in creat...

It's worth mentioning that the PDF viewing feature mentioned only works directly in the Mac's 'Finder' (File Manager) application and is not automatically available to other native Mac applications, which simply launch the Mac's 'Preview' application (or whatever default PDF App is set) to view and ...

There's a not so subtle "get-out" for family historians from the provisions of the GDPR; in that the guidance issued by the Information Commissioner's Office clearly states: "The GDPR applies to processing carried out by organisations operating within the EU. It also applies to organisations outside...

I'm sure Jim will reply, but the costs are detailed here: https://www.codeweavers.com/store As you will see the license, although perpetual, only entitles the user to direct support and updates for a year, so, in effect, there is an annual cost to users if there are significant/necessary updates aft...

I have used VirtualBox (with Windows 7/Windows 10) as a direct replacement for Parallels for the last 5 years. Also use WINE to create a "standalone" Mac version of FH, with Wineskin or PlayOnMac as a 'front end' to manage WINE, both OpenSource apps. There's also the commercial option of Crossover i...

The search function is just behaving like any WIKI Page type search function and is picking out all references to the individual words used in your search term, which is not the result you want/need. It would probably be easier for someone to answer/advise on what is possible and where to find any g...

Jim, I believe that you are probably dealing with a limitation of the OEM Developer Version of novaPDF that is licensed for use in Family Historian. Commercial versions of novaPDF do include an added ability to build and save multiple Private Profiles, containing print preferences, page sizes etc. s...

Perhaps turn the original question around, as it may be influenced by the gross/sweeping misuse of Residence Facts by Ancestry.com If you record a Census fact, which includes details of the address and place the a person was located on Census night, do you really need to record a (possibly incorrect...

Mike, What you probably need is a Windows Clipboard Extender. There are many offerings e.g. Ditto, CopyQ, Clip Diary, PhraseExpress etc and many are 'freeware'. See https://alternativeto.net/software/copyq/ for some options. Family Historian, in common with most software, doesn't have an extended cl...

@edmacke, The term 'Hundred' as a sub-division of a County is/was not unique to Britain (UK) and although now only really of historic interest 'over here' it is still in use (or was in recent use) in some parts of the USA. A few links to while away the hours, if you get really distracted by such thi...

There are many options for Windows but, personally, I would avoid Adobe Reader at all costs! it's simply Bloatware. Some options to consider (in no particular order): - FoxitReader (Freeware Version) - PDF Exchange Viewer/PDF Exchange Editor (Freeware Versions) - Sumatra PDF (Open Source - Free to u...

@Gowermick Sorry, but I'm really struggling trying to understand how you envisage applying/using 'Parish Locations', especially as there is no single map reference system that can reasonably define a geographic area; and certainly not areas that have changed significantly over time. The main reason ...

Back to the OP which relates to accessing Ancestry Tree on a Mac. Virtually every MacOS Application that makes use of names and personal information which of, course, includes any Web Browser in use, requests permission to access to the User's Address Book when it is initially used. If the User give...

Kim, I believe the New Year in 1752 started on 1 January in England & Wales, so the last year for 'double-dating' would be 1750/51. FH is flagging up the error by altering it to a 'date phrase'. Edit: Missed the point that double-dating also uses xxxx/xx not xxxx/x as used by some software which mig...

The fact is that all installed Anti-Virus/Malware software injects code directly into the Operating System (OS); and Windows 10 Updates, especially the major 6-monthly version jumps, continually fight against most applications that work in that way, as the OS is totally replaced by the new version u...

I believe this has come up before; and the problem is usually connected with attempting to copy and paste formatted text entries from Word-processing applications into applications that can only accept plain text. One workaround with Microsoft Word/OneNote is either save a copy of the document as Pl...

Mike, My point that implementing the FindMyPast and MyHeritage APIs are probably more 'straightforward' is that the APIs for both are publicly documented and open to any developer. There is no licensing test procedure invoked by either organisation as far as I can determine, although any software pr...

Not an expert on this by any means, but the process for providing a Web Hints feature that links to FamilySearch is unlikely to be as 'straightforward' as it is for FindMyPast and MyHeritage, i.e. only software that is FamilySearch Certified can provide Web Hints service and the process for gaining ...

Mike,

Mac Computers don't have "C: Drives" and don't understand the concept of MS Windows allocated Drive letters. They only use named drives.

Typically the User Directory structure will be: Macintosh HD/Users/"UserName"/

Mervyn