Family Historian User Group

Thanks to all who replied. I must say I was expecting rather more comment - especially from Calico Pie - but I guess that many users are still getting to grips with v4. I think, however, that my way forward has been determined by this comment from Simon on another thread: You need projects if you wa...

I apologise for the length of this post but as v4 is the first release of FH for years and probably the one which contains the greatest changes since v2 then I think it deserves a discussion. I’m never quick to upgrade to a new version of a program but I can usually tell from the information provide...

A trick I've used successfully many times is to find the GRO marriage record on FreeBMD and then look at others on the same page. Because there are only two marriages per register page you'll have only two people of the opposite sex to the one you already know. Combined with the census information t...

I reported this problem to Ancestry on 30th Jan. I haven't had a response and I now see that they've removed the Births index completely! How can Ancestry claim to have an 'ongoing commitment to providing our members with the richest and most diverse set of historical records' whilst removing access...

Alan White said: I've not actually gone beyond the free index yet as I'm waiting for an answer to a question I've asked them. The question is: if I buy an image now with some data 'redacted'* do I have to pay again in 2012 to see the image in full? I've finally received an answer to this. findmypas...

I think the point I, and possibly others, have missed on the cost of the 1911 census is that £3 may be perfectly reasonable to view an image for an ancestor that you can, from the index, definitely determine is the one you want. But family history research usually isn't like that. The transcription ...

Adrian Cook said: Although I find the cost expensive, I'm not sure it isn't fair and reflective of the costs required to scan millions of documents and provide the huge amount of hardware required to host the data. 'The release of the 1911 census has been immensely popular so far, says Elaine Colli...

I can only echo the comments on the cost. I was staggered when I heard the guy from NA on the Today program say that the cost was £2.50-£3.50 per image. That's a rip-off: a company shouldn't be making a profit in providing access to public information. I think it's a great shame that the increased i...

Nick Walker said: I understand that the version 4 upgrade won't work unless you have version 3. In that case I entirely agree with you that that is something Calico Pie should fix. It's ludicrous for a company to expect that a customer will retain CD copies of every version of the program and to fo...

Another possibility is that v4 will allow upgrade directly from v2. This means that though the process Nick describes doesn't get any better it doesn't get any worse either. It's quite understandable that Calico Pie want to ensure that one is entitled to receive the lower upgrade price but I would h...

Fine, but do you agree that despite the thread title your request is best satisfied by simply removing the file filter? I suggest that the title makes the request seem more complicated and more 'niche' than it really is, and therefore less likely to be understood by others and so less likely to be v...

Sorry to bump this old thread but I'm still catching up with the wishlist [smile]. Two comments: firstly this item has got rather technical and, while that doesn't bother me, in this case I don't think it's necessary. All that's required, as has already been said, is for the file filter on Insert......

And, just to give you another view (everyone does things to suit their own needs), I wouldn't record the website except in certain unusual circumstances. The website is merely the publication medium: it's not a source (which, I suspect, is why Jon records it there). For example, if you find a birth ...

gladtobegrey said: I'd rather have consistency of behaviour I agree. Whilst it is true that some empty tags are removed on file close/open not all of them are (nor would I want them to be). In any case, the 'ignore it' approach doesn't resolve the other aspects mentioned in my post, whereby the sub...

I'd like to extend that request to include all tags, not just sources. In fact, I mentioned the problems with the current system to Simon a couple of years ago. Here's an extract from the mail I sent: Secondly, when adding a source I always need to add other tags, often all of them. But there's an i...