Family Historian User Group

... A word of caution: If we are talking about England and Wales electoral registers you need to bear in mind that until 1918 the right to vote was closely linked to property ownership. Some people appeared in more than one electoral register, on the basis that one address was their own residence, ...

Looks like you're using the Prosilver theme, Mark? If so, expect oddities as it's minimally supported in FHUG (and not supported at all by its developer). ... As an aside, I haven't found any issues with Prosilver - doesn't mean there aren't any but I'm not failing to do anything that I want to do....

Save/Autosave simply saves the version of project data currently in memory to the GEDCOM file. Changes made in the Rich Text Editor are not committed to memory until you click on Apply, so are lost if you close the editor without saving, even if an autosave has occurred. ... Oh! :o ... It's probabl...

Exactly - it’s an extra layer of protection, but that’s no different to any other change to project data. I just wanted to avoid anybody getting the impression (as Adrian might have done) that it was required in order to achieve what the OP was requesting. Erm - yes, possibly... I think that when I...

I think that I have been caught out a couple of times by the Undo taking away more than I'd expected. But on reflection, I think I've always been able to ReDo to get back to my (flawed) starting point. So I can't add anything, I'm afraid, except to thank Mike for suggesting Apply followed by Save - ...

... The argument that "I want to do genealogy, not software" I think has a lot of validity and is probably what CP is trying to respect. ... And I think that's a fair argument. Except in this case, the detritus from dodgy merges is evidence that the application of that principle is counter producti...

... CP said that because (according to them) the user rarely needs to be aware of the existence of Family records it would confuse people if they were shown by default in the Records window. Unfortunately the result is that a lot of other people are confused because they don't know they exist or ca...

... In the Records Window, open the Families tab, ... I suspect that Daniel might not have the Families tab showing in the Records Window - otherwise, his route to the merge might have been less complex and closer to yours, Mike. Do we (in the User Group) advise people to show the Families tab? I n...

... My thinking was that it proved Great grandmother and Great grandaunt were siblings and that 1C2R was her daughter - but nothing further than that. I'd agree with all the other cautions. And I'd repeat that your DNA match to OT does not provide DNA evidence that "Great grandmother and Great gran...

What I should have added is that looking at the non-private parts of their tree they have the Great-grandaunt and 1st cousin 2x removed. Doesn't that mean that those two are validated as DNA related to me? ... No, it just means that OT has those two people in their tree. It doesn't mean that those ...

... What do people do in this situation - create dummy individuals (three in the example above)? It would mean that if a query or report displayed the relationship to the Primary Link it would be correct. ... I can't claim any experience in that precise case but what I would say is that a lot of my...

The 1939 and the early release of the 1911 census are (among) his memorials. While the early release of the 1911 is, in a sense, now irrelevant, the 1939 is very much still in play, as the NHS's original comment was that the Register was protected by the Census Act, so couldn't be seen until 2040 ( ...

ColeValleyGirl wrote: ↑

11 Nov 2022 10:34

... But it seems to be a magic disappearing topic!

Maybe the UG is now using the Facebook search engine!!

... I was referring to the bug that displayed the punctuation and spaces around {note} differently and has now been fixed. It was discussed at length in the forums but cannot find it now. ... Strangely I couldn't find that thread either and nor could Helen - assuming that we're talking about the sa...

... you can also limit what is displayed (for example, if you are showing your screen to another person). ... I'm thinking that it would be possible to create specific reports or charts that take account of flags like the ones Mike mentions. But so far as I can remember, or see in a quick check, th...

... But also allowed you to specify name element origin such as Matronym, Patronym, Toponym, etc. ... Oh that's interesting. One thing that I have been guilty of is referring to patronyms as if they are always the equivalent of, or a substitute for, "family name". Of course(?), that's not true - in...

... It is not clear what problems arose with the single {note} code that has served FH users well for many, many years. The change in the {note} code to introduce full-stops in certain circumstances has never been explained. ... Being pedantic about it, because there was no explanation, we can't ac...

... I am curious why there needs to be a difference given a user could put a period and space before a {note} with <. {note}>. ... But in the nicest possible way - why should I, given that I've never had to carry out any special handling like that beforehand? I don't understand this comment at all....

... I suspect any automated solution would fail because it's difficult for software to determine when text represents a standalone sentence versus a clause or phrase. It's certainly not decided solely by the length of the text. ... I'd totally agree with you there - it's decided only by the brain o...

... I am curious why there needs to be a difference given a user could put a period and space before a {note} with <. {note}>. ... But in the nicest possible way - why should I, given that I've never had to carry out any special handling like that beforehand? ... What if for some Census facts Note ...

davidf wrote: ↑

08 Nov 2022 21:06

I think deaths do require a doctor's medical certificate ("the letter") which confirms who died, when and of what, but apart from that ...

That's true - I suppose that I was thinking about proof of identity. The certification(?) letter only relates who the certifier believes the deceased was.

... No ID or proof of birth was required. ... My understanding from reading registrars who post here and in other places is that there is almost no point in vital registration procedures in England & Wales where documentary proof is required even today. I think second marriages are the exception, w...

tatewise wrote: ↑

07 Nov 2022 11:27

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GEDCOM 7.0.1 rationalises things by defining Family Attributes NCHI, RESI & FACT on page 40:
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Oh good. Eminently sensible.

Calico Pie deserve the thanks for providing the software - we're just the User Group - mind you, many of the members here deserve many thanks, themselves. The answer to your query is that FACT was provided in GEDCOM 5.5.1 only for custom Attributes for Individual records and not for Family records. ...

ColeValleyGirl wrote: ↑

06 Nov 2022 19:00

... Jane Parry daughter of Henry Prichard marrying in 1858 in Caernarvon; her maiden name when her children were born was variously given as Parry and Prichard. ...

Ah yes - took me a while to work it out, but that's presumably Parry = ap 'Arry = ap Henry.