Family Historian User Group

Paul,

I sent you a message here, perhaps it got lost... I'll do it again.

Cheers,
Chris

We have a few recorded as 'wife' when we know they're not married... But are censuses ever Primary?... they are after all the enumerator's interpretation of the householder's form, often (apparently) filled in by the children if they went to school and the parents probably didn't. Personally I never...

Clive, Thanks for your comments, nice to know someone's using it. I'm working on adding civil parishes and registration districts to the data, which will give us a lot more place names, but of course I don't have grid coordinates for them all unless they happen to coincide with ecclesiastical parish...

We would record this as a death of the spouse, (e.g. died before 1871), with a source reference to the census.

We file them in seperate folders for birth marriage and deaths, and within that alphabetically (surname first)... do whatever suits you I guess, there's no rules.

If it helps, the O.S. grid origin is at N49:46:01 W7:33:25 or 49.766823, -7.557015, and grid location 1000000,1000000 (i.e. 1000 Km North and East of there) is at N58:28:21, E8:18:23 or 58.472605, 8.306411 so it shouldn't be hard to make a spreadsheet or something to convert between them.

We have more than a few examples of people lying about their age on marriage certificates

I've just finished a tool to help with place names... see my post in the General forum

I've produced a tool to help with entering place names and addresses... It contains data on 12,000 or so G.B. parishes (stolen with permission from Parloc) and adds (or matches) those found in your Gedcom. As you start typing it does drop-down lists of possible place names, and when you select a pla...

Agreed in general, we usually use the name someone was born with and anything else as an alternative name, but sometimes you get a family where some of the kids are baptised (or even registered) with different spellings, presumably as interpreted by a different clerk or registrar, and it seems daft ...

We've had that effect on people too. I think it's the ability to look people up on the censuses that gets them hooked... there they all are with their siblings, mothers-in-law, occupations, and so on. You just have to find out who they were.

Hi Jane, I guess you meant modeless... I found one about notes dialogues but can't seem to find anything similar for Work with Data... And yes, you're right that would meet a lot of the difficulties, but I did point out a number of other irritations that I hope Simon would consider if he's looking a...

Fair comment Jane, but not a big issue for most purposes I imagine... I guess it would need a warning or something, or possibly where it would store the object reference (presumably an Id) to be specific to the Gedcom file, and it could then refuse to run if it's the wrong one or can't find it.

I'm sure I've seen somewhere the idea to combine events with the same date in the text, but I don't seem to be able to find it... maybe I'm dreaming. Anyway, that woud be 'In 1881 he was resident in Hitchin. In 1881 he was a railway porter.' to read something like 'In 1881 he was resident in Hitchin...

Dave, I think there's a wish list item for find and replace in FH

P.S. Just to make life complicated, even 'town/village, county' is not always strictly hierarchical... we have a few examples where a village is split by a county boundary, and at least one family all from the same village but born in 2 different counties. Then there's the places that have changed c...

There's an item on the wish list that you might like to go and vote for to be able to add information to places, so you don't have to put it in the notes for every individual.

A further passing thought... cities, towns, parishes, bouroughs, districts (enumeration, ecclesiastical, registration, etc) are not all geographically hierarchical... There may be no correct order of magnitude.

Allow custom queries to refer to explicitly selected individual records, families, sources or whatever without having to make them user entry parameters every time the query is run.

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Generally we haven't done it, but I can see the point for keeping all the extra information from the top of the census forms somewhere... like Jane, our Places are 'Town/Village, County, Country' for consistency as much as anything (you don't always get places from censuses, and it's nice if they lo...

P.P.S. This thread is drifting a bit, but never mind... I'm not very good at queries, but I seem to have figured out how to get all the individuals that might have been alive in (say) 1881, but I can't figure out how to exclude those that already have a source reference to 1881 (you see what I'm get...

P.S.

You got me thinking... I've never really considered making a named list for temporary work-in-progress kind of things, i.e. where you want to work through a list of people and remove them when they're done. There may be a lot of other applications for this... thanks for the thought.

I noticed the Add to Named List function when I was about half way through... trouble is (when I started at least) more than half the occupations were one reference only (we'd included a lot of stuff which is now in the occupation note), so it wouldn't have helped all that much.

Sorry, I thought I'd checked... must have missed it. Places as sources is a nice idea in the interim, thanks for that, I'll give it some thought... still leaves the problem of recording a source for the information about a place though, but that's not a big issue. But it does mean remembering to add...

Jane, I know you've had problems in the past converting my ramblings into pithy one-paragraph wish-list requests, but this is more by way of a request for a reconsideration of the functionality of the Work with Data... functions in general rather than a request for a specific enhancement, and I thou...