Family Historian User Group

'This needs to be optional' - good point. The optionality might also need to have degrees of optionality - would you want to see explicit mention of birth parents? (because that can be explicitly set - probably so if you've gone to the trouble to set it, but probably best to ask) - would you want to...

If children are marked as being step-children of a couple, then Family Historian's narrative report for the parents (at least) does not show that the children are step-children. It is pretty clear what's going one when looking at the report for the biological parent, for the children occur twice. It...

Interesting thought. However, I can only see 2 ways to do this: write a companion program that produces complete reports. This would basically end up something like TCGR and means that effectively all the effort that Calico Pie put into their reports is wasted. I rather like Calico's reports, especi...

FH should show the citations relevant to a shared note that is printed in a report. Why: (See mailing list 'Citations for Shared Notes' 12/07/2011 onwards.) Summarising from there: I'm creating a shared note that I want accessed from one or more people. I've created the shared note, with its own cit...

FH should be able to produce a bibliography in all reports that also produce citations. Why: Most serious styles for the production of citations produce (a) a bibliography listing the sources used and (b) reference notes saying where each fact has come from (linking facts to the sources). Reference ...

Not that weird (sorry - it's Friday and I was a maths teacher) last two digits of the year in which you were born plus the age you will be this year equates to last two digits of the year in which you were born plus 2011 - year in which you were born equates to year in which you were born - 1900 plu...

Arising out of today's comments in the List about Unicode - I'm curious on this aspect... I don't have a personal need for Unicode right now, but am interested about how other applications would cope if .GED files suddenly turned into Unicode, e.g., text editors? I think that if the file contained o...

Re Residence and Occupation from a marriage - I would always record these as being 'TO marriage-date', so they would be shown first. Which is fine for _me_ because they apply like that in my mind - it's their residence and occupation before the marriage that's recorded. Interesting about the witness...

1. I don't see any difference between the 2 sets of entries, other than that the line 13 entry has been scored through and therefore, as far as officialdom is concerned, it doesn't exist. (In fact, Ancestry didn't index it, I had to find it on the Ellis Island site). 2. It is possible her ticket was...

Why don't you give us the key details of the 2 lines (name, date, ship, page, line, whatever) and then we can find them ourselves and see if anything leaps out at us as a possible explanation. Or we can say we're just as confused as you!

Seems highly peculiar to me.... The Last Residence should be exactly that - it should only be NY if said person had previously been living in NY. Without seeing the rest of the pages, it's difficult to guess any reason - logically they should be 2 different people but if they have the same Friend or...

Dave - I've used OpenOffice in the past, on my netbook. If I'd never used MS Office, it would have been great... [rolleyes]

I had the same problem but ages ago, under XP. Probably with FH v4. In my case I decided that one of the online backup programs was using the data file at exactly the same time FH wanted it.

I stopped using the online back-up, the problem went away and my bill from my ISP went down as well.

Jane - thanks for the thought about checking what Lulu or Blurb might want. I'd actually not thought that far ahead but it makes sense to check out the options. John - somewhere I've got an old (paid) copy of Serif Page Plus - and MS Publisher as well - so it would probably be worth looking those ou...

I know - why isn't he using a web-site? Partly because not all my relatives are that IT literate. Partly because (for me) nothing beats plain simple paper to read. And file away on a society's shelves. Besides which - my ideal is this: - I write the chapters manually (in MS Word, say); - I paste the...

There may (or may not) be two issues here: 1. How do you put all this into FH? 2. How do you keep confidential that which should be kept confidential? If you have every confidence your FH data will never get out, then it doesn't matter what you put into FH. In this latter case, two families seem to ...

Ah - I should have mentioned, I altered my 'usual' text scheme to show the extra names on diagrams (well, I think I altered it - so long ago I can't remember). Immediately before the birth details, I have an item 'Name (a.k.a.)' for all box types, with a template reading 'a.k.a. %INDI.NAME[2+]:FULL%...

Re option 1 - I can say that I know this one works since I have Samuel Beech m Martha Cook, Feb 1825. Their 1st child is down as Samuel Cook b 1821. He also has an alternate name of Samuel Beech since the 1851 shows him with his parents and carrying the Beech surname, whereas in his baptism and the ...

'the correct surname (the mother's before marriage)' OK - let me pick up on this 1st. If the child uses the surname of the man she married, as you say, then that is just as correct as the mother's pre-marriage name. Remember that in the UK you can call yourself what you want, so we shouldn't invoke ...

Actually, I'm not sure that they would have known Ancestry were doing this. I've seen it suggested that the fiches were bought from a FH society, as a certain society's set of fiches were missing the first so many years - just like Ancestry's are. Since Crown copyright does not last for ever (only 5...

If the census and residence facts were in 1 to 1 correspondence, I'd agree Nick. However, what I normally end up with is X different census facts per person and then rather less residence facts, each of which cover a range, e.g. 'Resident in Nantwich from 1835 to 1851' and 'Resident in Crewe from 18...

Interesting - I've always used the census form (though not via AS) to create both census and residence facts - unless the form clearly spells out that the person is a lodger, boarder or visitor. My suspicion (unprovable?) is that the majority of grandchildren with grandparents were indeed resident w...

If you did go down the route of custom facts and were concerned about compatibility, it's my personal feeling that custom events are more likely to be accepted by a recipient program than custom attributes. Thus you might have a custom event for (say) 'Medal Awarded' and add what the decoration was...

Long filename problems seem to pop up in all sorts of places - including some versions of my back-up software, which is somewhat disconcerting. The only thing, I'm afraid, is to try and review those long names (if I understand you correctly). For instance in: 1841 England Census Class HO107; Piece 5...

duncalfa said: Personally I would attach any bastardy documents to the child - I have warrants, certificates, recognizances and orders at present. Perhaps a linked note would serve the purpose where the father is concerned? Do I need to say 'Illegitimacy' rather than the other word??? Attach the do...