Family Historian User Group

I would like to add my belated congratulations and thanks to Jane for her dedicated hard work in steering the the good ship FHUG through it's first five years. May it continue and hopefully give you all the 'job' satisfaction you deserve. I have been confounded once again by PC troubles, enough to m...

I have returned to FH research after a gap of 2 years. When refreshing my memory on procedures etc and looking at previous entries, I noticed that I appeared to have links to multimedia images with the wrong family names on. This was most apparent with Census records in the sources listings and thei...

I am in the process of returning to Fam Hist research after a gap of a year or so. I've been busily catching up on the news and download files etc but although I have read it several times I still don't understand if I can buy an upgrade to V4 and at what price when it is released. In my Family Hist...

Dear Jane,          I hope I haven't offended you, I did not intend to. I do realise that you volantarily run this site and that fact is very much appreciated, as I have learnt so much by suscribing to it. I've just been looking at a promotional CD that came with a newspaper, from Family Tree Maker ...

Hi Jane,
      I can see you've been very busy while I've been having a rest from F.H.. The new layout looks good.
Can you update me on the How To's situation. Are you still waitng for the info that you need to stop them from freezing part way through?
Best Wishes

Still a bit off line. My personal saga with BT continues, despite being sent a voyager 210 replacement router  (under warranty), Further problems have led to a diagnosis that the master telephone point (where the bt line enters the house) is now faulty and awaiting replacement. It has been an amusin...

Thanks Jane . I never thought of looking there.  [oops]

I been using Gedcom Census now for about a month and Would like to say that I think it is a great assistant. I have, unfortunatley omitted to react to the nicely worded request that popped up twice before I was totaly at ease with the programme. ( I'm a slow learner). How can I make amends by more t...

This may be a little off line but at last my broadband dropout has been solved. Since I last posted here I hadnt' been able to stay connected for more than about 4to 41/2 minutes. The one thing not checked by Bt or anyone else (including me) was the voyager modem. It proved to be faulty. I'm now bac...

I have followed all your tips, checked my Java programme, my flash programme, cleared my disc, increased my internetfile capacity to max (it was on nearly minimum before) and my broadband has not dropped out once. I've downloaded and tried to run the files one by one. even the first into the list on...

Hi Jane,          No, I've applied for 8Mb but I'm still only on 1.1Mb Which was the best they could do when I applied for 2Mb.At the moment it hasn't dropped out for a couple of hours, so I've got my fingers crossed. However I was coming back to you with another problem associated with the download...

Thanks Jane, Now I've got a lot more data stored I'm begining to appreciate these little 'how tos'.
  I can now pursue BT again to  convince them that it is not my firewall creating the problem. Computers !!! Who'd have one !!

Hi Jane, Some one beat me to it same result, Many thanks for your efforts

I'm a bit puzzled by the way the programme of 'How Tos ' works. I have found that when I click onto the short cut I've created to run your most helpful programme (which I saved to my Family History directory), my dial up programme is started and a connection to FHUG is made. Is this because the actu...

Once again, many thanks Jane.
I have now downloaded your 'How Tos' and will study then tomorrow.

Thanks Jane for your help.The 2nd way you use is the one for me. It's something like getting a wedding group photo and linking to several records of individuals. My apologies to Nick Walker for wrongly attributing the programme. (Mental Abberation !) I think that I have also miss understood the prin...

Not being a professional genealogist, I would welcome advise about good practice, on the recording of census sources? By this I mean does one create a census source record for each family member for each year of each census that they appear in, which to me seems very cumbersome, or as I was thinking...

Because I only have the reduced size version of my own Birth certificate I sent for the G.R.O version and found an interesting remark in column seven under my fathers name and address as informant. This reads 'as per declaration dated 12 January 1940'. The date of registration is 15/01/1940. I've as...

Many thanks to all who have posted suggestions for my 'strange marks'. They do seem to explain quite logically what they are. I must think a bit more laterally perhaps.

On a B.C. of a deceased Aunt I have found some numbers/letters added to her mothers name, and also a remark?, on the oblique line at the end of the data window does any one know what they may be? http://www.fhug.org.uk/images/uploads/Partial_birth_certificate.jpg http://www.fhug.org.uk/images/upload...

I wonder fi any one could tell me what the strange numbers/letters are written on a deceased aunts B.C. are? also something written across the oblique line at the end of the data window.

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I don't often take part in online arguements, but in this case I am firmly on Jomac's side. I retired 15 years ago due to ill health, I'm still only 66, but I now realise that a lot of my troubles were caused by over anxious bosses that wanted everything yesterday. I used to programme computers for ...