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Oops, just realised I said birth when I meant to say marriage.

Sorry for the confusion!

Hi Jane, What I'm trying to do is get lists of people for whom I should have bmd certificates (i.e. where the bmd event is 1837 onwards). There are some queries in the query store here that do that. But because some of the lists generated are quite long (I spend too much time tracking distant cousin...

Thanks! That worked. How would I get it to work on a query to find couples without an exact date of [strike]birth [/strike] [edit: whoops, I mean marriage] - ie if there's two names, how does it know which one to use to calculate the relationship? Is it the one it's nearest to in the field order, ma...

Please be gentle - I'm a newbie when it comes to FH queries, and am finding it all a bit goobledygook, but learning *slowly* from the query store here. I downloaded some queries from the query store here, including 'Missing Statutory Birth Certificates'. I'm just thinking that what would make it the...

Having spent nearly an hour yesterday trying - and failing - to submit a correction on freebmd, I'm not going to say what I think about their attitude to corrections!

I agree with most of the suggestions about ancestry. My top one would be being able to sort search results.

I bought myself a copy of Gensmarts, and I have to say it looks impressive. At least it would, were I not using Family Historian.[frown] I was trying to work out why it was telling me to look for bmd records that I already had, and got this response from someone called Aaron at Gensmarts: 'We don't ...

Thanks Jane.

Took me a while to find the Families tab (as it's hidden by default), but now I have, it's all in the process of being sorted. Though I'm deleting, rather than merging as for some reason merging is breaking the links between spouses and between parents and children.

I got this response from GenSmarts, after sending them an extract of the GEDCOM produced by Family Historian. Can anyone comment whether this is something I've done wrong in Family Historian, or is FH not recording the marriage on both sides of the family? When I look at the record for both husband ...

jmurphy said: The other program I use that I would recommend to people is GenSmarts, which reads your GEDCOM file and looks for missing data, makes suggestions about what you might do to fill in the gaps and suggests places where that information might be found. I've just downloaded GenSmarts but f...

Thanks for the prod. [smile]

I've ordered a copy from the States.

I've made a number of changes to the templates that drive the 'sentence' for events and attributes that is displayed in reports. Is there an easy way to export those templates? My brother's just bought himself a copy of Family Historian and as well as sharing the gedcom file we'd like to 'synchronis...

porcupinetree said:
Just came across your post, the photo and drinking smiley made me laugh out loud! After a very frustrating day trying to sort out a FH export problem, it has made my day!!

Glad to be of service! [cool]

Hello everyone, I've just received the death certificate for my great-great-grandmother, who died aged 60 in Blackpool in 1894. The cause of death is given as 'Acute Alcoholism; Bronchitis 7 days'.   Acute Alcoholism seems a strange cause of death for the 1890s - strange that is in terms of being re...

Might it be Emma Kun?

Takes a bit of a stretch to get that, but if you imagine the strokes of the pen on a sheet of paper, it might work.

What do you want it to be?

Thanks Jane,

I'll give that a go.

Fergus said: Still no good using my wife's Kyocera FS-1020D at home. I have removed the driver, gone to Kyocera web site and re-installed the driver. Still missing names from boxes. Rather anoying, will try messing around with printer settings. I get this using a Kyocera laser printer too. Latest d...

Thanks for the confirmation folks!

Very helpful.

Well ... sort of. Now I have to try to work out who on earth this lot could be and why we've got their wedding photos![grin]

I have a photograph of a wedding, which if the identification of the happy couple is right should be in 1911. But the women's dresses look a bit short to me (and the groom has a wacky hairstyle for 1911 - it doesn't really show on this photo, but on another photo of just the couple, he has an enormo...