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... Thank you everyone for your help. Has anyone tried searching for records at the Library using microfiche? Not sure which Library you mean there but the actual (original) certificates are locked away in the custody of the Superintendent Registrar of the relevant district - no normal mortals are ...

... a Date Period BTW <date> AND <date> ... We're into personal preferences - or perhaps personal understandings - here. For whatever reason, I've always interpreted "BTW <date> AND <date>" to be most appropriate to a single-day (or nearly so) event occurring between those 2 events. It's ...

I want to remove those first 2 letters that look like reversed 'P's and probably should be global. Those two characters (pilcrows, I believe) represent a new paragraph command in the sentence. They do not appear in the final report. They can be removed but the sentence will then be in the same para...

Just in case you have a relative in the British Army during the French Revolutionary & Napoleonic Wars, there's a raft of useful bits of financial information such as rates of pay, prices of commissions, etc, on https://www.napoleon-series.org/researc ... c_pay.html

I think Lorna's interpretation is correct. In fact, that is the method usually advised here for sorting on multiple columns - sort in order, least significant first, and the previous sequence is maintained. ... Agreed. On my Individuals tab, if I mess up the tab's sort order by clicking on the Spou...

It appears that I did spend some time hacking/editing the Essentials Source Template for a Civil Registration Certificate to be more to my liking. This is the result: Screenshot 2024-04-27 133842.jpg (You may need to right click the image and open it in a new tab or similar to embiggen it) This is t...

I believe that the format David Childs quoted for the citation is actually the Strathclyde format for citing an entry in the birth registration index. ... Actually, it's not, it is from the template Civil Registration Certificate . It took me a little while to confirm this (a) because I don't norma...

ColeValleyGirl wrote: ↑15 Apr 2024 16:45 ...We try to keep the rules about behaviours, not technologies. The extra detail is in the Forum Usage post in the KB.

Which I see has the full explanation now, thanks.

There seems to be a focus in this discussion on technology, rather than on behaviour. ... The text seems OK to me, Helen. Personally, I'm still not convinced that "All defamatory [etc.] ... are strictly prohibited" wouldn't cover it but it's not my board and rules. I believe that you do h...

Ah, yes, John. So I was wrong about needing to access that tab on the Control Panel - or rather, that's not the only way to access Private Messages. If PMs are enabled then I'd see the Private Messages envelope icon on my toolbar. At least, that's what happens on another PHP board that I'm on where ...

The essential principles of what to think about still hold, Mark, as does the relevance of the Control Panel to Off-Board emails. But yes, regrettably all the plumbing instructions appear to be wrong. I can imagine people switching off PMs in the Control Panel and getting upset when they still recei...

If mods can send PMs, could they then send one to a none mod and if so how would they read it? Well, that's a good question. Right at the very top, Jane said "Admins and moderators will always be able to contact you." But if I cannot access the PM tab where I can see PMs, how would I see ...

jelv wrote: ↑13 Apr 2024 22:02... I've added you as a friend - has that made a difference?

No - the contact bubble still offers only emails and I still have no visibility of the PM tab in Control Panel.

I have PMs enabled in User Control Panel, Board Preferences. Can anyone see to PM me? If I click the Contact Speech bubble for you, it only gives me the option to email you. And, as I said, I have no visibility of the (genuine) PM tab that I can see on other boards. As for "the option should b...

... The recipient receives an E-mail from FHUG forwarding the initiator’s message and reply E-mail address. If the intended recipient has messages disabled, that option is not visible, so they cannot receive any direct messages from other ordinary users. I’m not aware of any other way of doing it, ...

Bill - I'm now completely confused because I've checked on a phpBB Board where I do have PM - it's on the User Control Panel, on a tab called Private Messages between Board Preferences and UserGroups. No sign of it on FHUG...

BillH wrote: ↑13 Apr 2024 17:44 This is a bit off topic, but I was wondering if someone could explain how to do a PM on FHUG. I've looked around and can't find it. I see how to send an email, but not a PM.

Hesitant because I'm not sure myself - but is this because everyone you've looked at has PMs switched off?

... As Tamara has said, it was a baked in assumption -- Jane is going to document what had been assumed to be obvious. ... It may be because I'm a bloke but it absolutely wasn't a baked-in assumption from me. My assumption was that the facility exists and that it's therefore intended to be used. In...

Why not? Perhaps to offer private advice if a "discussion" is getting acrimonious...? It would be perfectly reasonable to do that below the radar. Indeed - with a security hat on (not that I ever went in for one much), asking, "Can I set up a confidential dialogue with you?" and...

I am sorry for the elementary nature of this question. ... Firstly I must confess that I don't use Source Templates so I may be missing the normal way of using them. But I don't think that you're asking an elementary question at all... ... I'm using the Essentials Source Template for Civil Registra...

I notice from Chris Paton's blog that Evidence Explained 4th edition is available through its publisher in an ebook format. See https://genealogical.com/store/evidence-explained-4th-edition/ It's $47.50 for the ebook as against $65.00. The ebook format is something that's available only on the Books...

... I have no idea how it [ SOURCE_CITATION inside a MULTIMEDIA_RECORD - I hope! AB] was intended to be used (we need to consult the gedcom gurus for that) ... Unless one ploughed all the way through all sorts of intermediate documents, I suspect that there's no current evidence of anyone's intenti...

... There is no value in an entry like "After 1905" - it is an assumption based on the inscription. ... Yes, on reflection I agree with that. The record of the source needs to contain only what is clear from the real-life source. Depending on your point of view and working practices, you ...

1. Monumental Inscription is what I call them. 2. Fundamentally, for me, the date is the earliest date when I think the stone was erected . But this can be unclear. Normally I would put something like "After dd/mm/yyyy" where dd/mm/yyyy is the physically first death date on the stone. So i...