Family Historian User Group

Which all goes to prove you can't please all the people all the time... I guess the best compromise is another qualifier that means date uncertain but year probable... i.e. report as (for example) Jan 1876 (approx.), but not as (1876?-)

In 1901 there's a Hannah Cox (27), dom. servant, born in Hackney, living in Hornsey. In 1891 she's mis-transcribed as Hannah Core (17), dom. servant, born in Hackney, living in Hornsey. I can't find her in 1881. But if you allow Hannah=Annie, there are 3 Cox girls born in Hackney, Letitia (11), Mary...

We have a similar case of Holwell, Bedfordshire/(later in) Hertfordshire. We record it like that if it's in Beds at the time, and just Holwell, Hertfordshire if it's in Herts (which is where it is now). At least that way you can find it on the map, and the first version records what the people thems...

You've got me curious... who was her husband and when did they marry? My guess is the name on her marriage is the adopted name if it was done formally. Where does the triplets story come from? At that time you wouldn't expect adopted children to be able to find out anything about their natural paren...

tonyt said:
No need to rub it in

Sorry, not intended... We've often found that people missing from the indexes seem to have been miraculously added the second or third time we look. [confused]

I agree about the notes for the unusual cases, but what I was hoping for is that the record list and reports (where presumably something like the LifeDates function is used) could leave out the question mark if the date is marked as approximate but includes a month.

If I find an age in months (often on a census e.g. 7 months in 1861), I'll enter 'Sep 1860' as a birth date. It's still approx... could easily have been August, but if I check Approximate it shows the life dates as (1860?-), but the year is (almost) certain. Either with or without the (app) is misle...

When entering birth dates from baptisms or censuses I have to click '...'/Approximate/OK every time.

An option to do this automatically unless I enter a day or month would save an awful lot of time. It's relativel easy to remove (app) in the few cases I don't want it.

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It would help to be able to define the printer (not necessarily the Windows default) to be used with a particular diagram style, and (more importantly) to be able to say none (i.e. use screen properties instead). This could be the default option if there is no default printer. The page boundary feat...

P.S.

(not that I have any particular reason to defend Ancestry as compared to any of the other sites, but to be fair...) Q3 1962 LAYTON, Hannah, 88, Wood Green 5f/395 is certainly there and correctly indexed

It's worth remembering that the BMD indexes were originally made by hand by copying all the quarterly registers (originally hand written by a registrar's clerk, from mostly verbal reports) onto seperate pages, sorting these (by hand) by name, and then copying these again onto the alphabetical lists....

Despite the fact that I'd love to see the early 20th century censuses, I rather hope (and believe) this petition will be ignored. When governments obtain information from citizens (that's you and me) on the assurance that it will only be used for statistical purposes for at least 100 years, we must ...

I should have added of course you can easily edit the data file for your own use with Excel or even Notepad (it's in folder ...Program FilesToponymy by default), but if you let me know I'll try to make sure your corrections get in any future release. If you rename your own version, you can go to Fil...

Well, I meant 2011 for the release of the 1911 census, but presumably it won't be until (at least) the summer... (or have I missed a joke somewhere?)

I do please... If they're mistakes in the parish data I'll tell Dave Bennett too. I have a handful of corrections already for places I happen to know about. When it seems worth it I'll do a new version. If anybody spots any where the map locations are wrong I'd like to know too. It's not always as s...

Hear Hear

(but of course, the new year we're all really waiting for is 2011)

Personally I always do this kind of thing on the Events tab. Presumably what's on Detail is a fairly arbitrary set of events and attributes that the designers thought you'd be most likely to use, and it's constrained by space of course.

Lol... I think we're all misunderstanding each other... When I wrote 'As for installing on earlier versions of Windows...' I was referring to earlier posts rather than Nick's specifically

Nick, I had a look at Inno Setup and although it produces a neater result, it seems to require a lot more knowledge of how things should be done than I have. I thought it was safer to let the one that comes with Visual Studio 6 do whatever needs doing (naive it seems). Making sure I have the 'latest...

Peter, The way I've been sorting out my addresses is like this... Select the 'wrong' address in Toponymy. Hit the binoculars in the FH toolbar, press Ctrl+V, select All Record Types and Search Type: All text fields, then Find First. Select the 'right' address in Toponymy. Check the context in the re...

I thought I'd lost things like that too so I usually do Send message then edit it rather than doing Preview, it seems safer.

You're right of course, you should never let some downloaded freebie update your system files... if it asks, say no (if I was a hacker, it wouldn't ask). The program will probably work anyway. If it doesn't, I'm sorry, just throw it away. It was developed on XP and the setup program is built by the ...

Thanks for the feedback. You're right of course, loading time is an issue. But on my 2-year old Dell desktop it takes 3.5 seconds to load Parishes.CSV, and 21 seconds to load our Gedcom of 6.13 Mb containing 17,000 individuals and (more relevantly) 2,942 differently named places (it feels like longe...

Thanks to everyone who's tried it out.

Version 1.2 is now available in the Downloads section under Gedcom.

Did you get my message Paul?... if not perhaps you should contact Jane in case they're getting lost.