Family Historian User Group

I too upgraded from full V3 to V4 trial (Windows XP, IE explorer 8) and got the upside down occupations & places when clicking on the desktop icon to open FH, but when I open a gedcom from the gedcom file, it's fine.

Jo

Wow, many thanks for the input! To Jan: It would seem that the Enumerators did sometimes ignore instructions on the 1841 British Census and that's why we let what is (in theory) an improbable age pass to a result. We give the warning to alert the user to a possible typo. Thank you for the advice on ...

Hi John Thanks for the link - that looks like a handy tool to have. I needed a program I could take with me on my laptop to places with no internet connection - General Registers of Scotland, the library and so on. We have now made some amendments to the Trial Version, as a result of input from ever...

Hi Chris You're absolutely correct [smile] The Birth Date Calculator gives a specific time period to start looking in for the birth record, but works off the 'age given' on the document, so the result is dependent on the information supplied! It does, however take into account the various census rou...

Dear Jan Indeed they do help, thank you. We did seriously misjudge the variety of screen settings that people use, someone else contacted us off-forum to let us know this.  This issue has now be corrected and will appear as intended on all monitors and screen settings. We are just putting in a few t...

I wonder if I could ask for forum members assistance? I am a Scottish Genealogist and my partner has written a Birth Date Calculator program for me. It is different in that it uses the Census Enumerator's protocols to calculate the birth date range, which means it is very accurate. I have found it e...

Hi Bon I've found a few 'natural' [wink] children this way - you can access the Kirk Session Minutes at National Archives next door to Reggie House in Edinburgh. It's free to get in. You need to know which parish records you want to look at, and then it's just a case of reading through the relevant ...