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Excellent Mike... For every hundred idiotic hints, there is one of gold dust.

(PS Statistics not guaranteed!)

This is what I do in cases of changing place-names:- Annotation 2020-06-25 101213.jpg The above shows the property box for one particular place-record. The Place item is what I've previously entered against an event. I can then go into the place-record and set Standardized to today's place-name. Whe...

Yes, strictly speaking, the Place records are actually Place-Name records.

For what it's worth - every other census in the world (well, those few that I've looked at! ;) ) is organised using Enumeration Districts or whatever the local language equivalent is. Class, Piece and folio is strictly The National Archives (TNA) and was applied by TNA after the GRO (England & Wales...

... And "No", I have no idea yet how I want this info to appear in reports, but I just want to avoid potential problems if possible. Putting my tongue in my cheek: my personal opinion is that if you don't change your mind several times over a topic, the topic wasn't worth doing in the first place! ...

.... So now I'm deleting all my 'sent' of which there are nearly 5000 from the year dot ... Probably too late - but I have a horrible feeling that this also deletes any saved "copy" of that mail - GMail only has one copy of a mail - all the "folders", including sent, are just views on the one mail....

... an "e" over it instead of "y" with an "o" over it. After looking at the other writing in the image Brian posted, I can see that it is an "e". ... As an incidental, you will get a long way into writing methods of the past if you understand the long "s" (the one that some people insist on transcr...

Bill - yes - gosh I hate it when I'm out-pedanted by someone!

In my head I was thinking of adults who'd left school decades ago, so were unlikely to be going back into education... Still even so, yes, as always, it's the info at that point in time.

Just to throw this in - I have a custom event for "Education" and use that to record Scholars, precisely to keep them out of Occupation data. But then again, I don't use Ancestral Sources so I've no idea how feasible it is to take that approach with AS. NB - if anyone is au fait with the GEDCOM stan...

Gowermick wrote: ↑

13 Apr 2020 15:45

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

Oh nicely done, sir, nicely done. You have (correctly) out-pedanted me!

... To my way of thinking, a burial does infer person has died, ... Then beware of some American FindAGrave records!! In another place, I found that it is not unknown over there for a gravestone to be cut with the full name and dates of the deceased and the name and birth only of their spouse - lea...

Jane wrote: ↑

02 Apr 2020 13:57

... you can't drag and drop between different levels.

Thank you Jane - I think you've just explained a problem of mine in some software utterly unrelated to genealogy! I don't think I ever knew that - or I'd forgotten if I did.

Indeed Mike - it could have been in any of the lists or boards that I look at, though I'm sure it's popped up more than once. Presumably the same issue that George had and for similar reasons - something on the GEDCOM that caused Ancestry's load to misinterpret. So the ambiguous "Aberdeen" appears t...

... Adrian, if it was that, then it is surprising that nobody else seems to get those numerical suffixes anywhere. Also, why is the only affected version the one that goes through Clean Living Persons while all the Place names will remain the same. Numerical suffixes to place-names in Ancestry tree...

... 2 PLAC St. Machar, Aberdeen ... I've not ploughed through the rest of the thread to see if there are clues, but my immediate thought is - which Aberdeen? I've just tried to manually enter "St. Machar, Aberdeen" into my Ancestry tree and I get a host of suggestions, most of which are not in Scot...

Some portions (because I've no idea how much) were saved several times between 2013 and 2016 by Archive.Org's WaybackMachine. The front to the various snaphots is on https://web.archive.org/web/2016*/www.thebristolgunners.webspace.virginmedia.com From there, you can select a snaphot date, which pops...

... we need some way of indicating the duration of the relationship (if known) - the married field can take a date range ("from ... to ...") ... Although one of the problems is that these days, the very nature of some of these relationships is that it's virtually impossible to allocate start or end...

... Much harder to deal with a void marriage -- there's a Marriage Event, and the Status should be 'Never Married' but there isn't a 'Void Marriage' event; ... Oh - interesting. There can't be a Void / Voiding event because the marriage was Void by its very nature from the very beginning. Which is ...

LornaCraig wrote: ↑

09 Mar 2020 12:35

I think the way to go is to create a custom annulment event, as Adrian suggests. ...

Minor point - In fact, annulment is already a standard event - no need for a custom event. (Shows you how often most of us use it...)

I'm going to put my tongue slightly in my cheek and say that "Annulled" means "Never married", so therefore the "Never married" status is appropriate. If there is a Marriage Event then, of course, it looks weird - but that is actually the "legal" truth (which is why my tongue is only slightly in my ...

I'd personally agree with Helen - there are some decidedly odd traits appearing in User Interfaces, most of which appear to be there "because they can be". Take the new Microsoft screen shot utility - "Snip & Sketch". One day I lost the "File Save" icon - kinda important if you want to save a screen...

Re NRS - err, yes, I knew that but had never thought about it in that context! :? The question is - do we give the Author the current name, or the one applicable at the time? I'm inclined to use the contemporary name (i.e. GROS), like we (normally) use contemporary place-names. The fact that it woul...

I don't use AS for all sorts of reasons so have to set the stuff up manually. But just to add what might be obvious - one crucial (to me) point is that the author on a Source Record for these documents is set to General Register Office for Scotland and that provides the primary differentiation for m...

Like I say, Army - fine, Navy - um. When trying to look at my book of Military Photos, there seems very little difference between this picture and the RN - however, one thing that does stick out (or up...) is the brim of the cap - RN brims seem to have quite a sharp corner. This one is chunkier - an...

... a tag that is supposed to prevent access to 'private' information ... Up to you, of course, but I rather doubt that you'll ever see one - the fact that it's part of the LDS stuff and says that "Ancestral File download GEDCOM files may contain this data" indicate to me that it was defined for pr...