Family Historian User Group

I am sure that most of us have seen a lot of typographical errors in old documents and been amused at some of the spelling.  Just to let you know that this problem continues in the modern computer printed entries in the indexes held at the GRO. My father remarried in 1983 and the entry I looked for ...

Hi Nick, Here is a link of the information provided in each census http://genealog.fr/sources/recensem.html#top if you would like to see some census (recensements) documents they are freely available on the web. Here is one departement example http://www.archives-vienne.cg86.fr/numerique.recensement...

Apologies for the delay in replying but I wanted to check as far as possible my facts. In France, it seems that prior to 1881, the census was held in a particular year but there does not seem to be reference to a specific date in that year.  Since 2004 there is a rolling census with different areas ...

This is both a wish for the next version and a question. I have census entries for France that I am entering. At the moment I choose the UK and then edit the dates to follow the French census dates. As an example, for the 1896 French census, I use the England 1891 as a default and adjust the year an...

I have an imac and use Boot Camp which is built into Mac OS X Leopard. You have to set up a partition but this is part of the Boot Camp installation programme and is just a matter of following the on screen instructions. You then load Windows (you can probably use the one from your PC) You have to r...