Family Historian User Group

Many thanks for the offer of assistance Tatewise. I followed Tim's advice and found the Sykes' I was looking for as Sypes on District 17. My thanks to you both for your replies and help.
Dagwood

I'm researching family back in 1841 and can find all those I know of in the one area except for a couple who should be there in the next street (Oliver Street) I've been puzzled by the missing census info until last night when I got round to checking each enumeration district to check where this str...

Hi Les, If you Google DropBox you will be able to open a free account which enables you to upload folders containing whatever you want synced across two or more computers. Logging into the same account from another pc or notepad you will see the folders exactly as loaded. Any amendments/additions et...

Wouldn't the use of DropBox be an answer also? I followed the recommendations in this forum when I got a netbook and created a folder in DropBox on my PC then opened that folder in my netbook and all was there and remains syncronised at all times. I also use it for storing all photos, census and cer...

Rather than start a new thread this sounded like a good place to ask if I'm doing something wrong (well I know I must be but I'm not sure what!) Anyhow ,in a recent post in the General section I was advised to start A.S on a trial set of data. I'm still working on that but wanted to make sure that w...

Hi,having just downloaded Ancestral Sources I would like to make a donation. Can you tell me how much you suggest and how to make it please?
Dagwood

Peter, Tatewise and David, your comments very much appreciated. I have now downloaded Ancestral Sources and have made a start in linking images and creating the references to each census. I have followed Nick's advice in the preamble and have started with a copy set of records to experiment with and...

No, but now you have told me about it I will do so.
Many thanks
dagwood

Thank you for your replies Jane and Tatewise. Unfortunately they served only to highlight my deficiencies in understanding how powerful FH is and how little I know in how to use it! [confused] I am now going off into retreat with my copy of 'Getting the most....' determined to understand Queries and...

For some time now I have been looking at a faded photo of my late uncle in civilian clothes and with 1918 written on the back of the photo. On his chest he is wearing what looked like a Victoria Cross but of course the recipients of this are so well documented that we knew he had not been awarded a ...

I would like to use a spreadsheet to track the census and other records I have on Ancestry in order to concentrate my efforts on searching for those that are missing. I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of a format I could use with Microsoft Works and into which I could possibl...

I didn't know about Windows Live Mesh so cannot comment on that ,also I have Windows 7 on my PC and XP on my netbook so would not be able to use it if it requires Vista and/or 7 on both machines. Following advice on this site re DropBox I have been using it for some months without any problems. Wher...

Hi, what a great response. Many thanks to each of you and I've already started wading thro' them!
Dagwood[smile][smile]

Can anyone point me at any formats for recording information for individuals and families. I feel I would like some non-computerised records for individuals showing: i)  Variations on names throughout a life ii) Baptism and birth information iii)Census locations and occupations at that time iv) Marr...

Jane said: Personally, I window my FH screen with the source so I don't need to keep activating the other window. Jane ,as ever your replies are most helpful and I know I'm being really thick but could you explain this for me please ? I understand the initial problem but due to my inexperience cann...

Apologies for the poor description of my problem but I have a couple of sets of graphic tapered linking lines in my tree which show the same offspring appearing under two mothers. I can't find any reference to it in the manual and have tried unsuccessfully to search through forum posts. I'm sure I c...

The 1911 census does not give neighbours and nearby family members so I was delighted to see that Ancestry.co.uk have recently added the 1911 Census Summary Sheets to their data bank. Looking for a family ancestor we found not only the family's entry on the summary sheet we also found two other rela...

Jane and Gerry, my thanks to you for taking the trouble to not only give advice on how to sort out the mess but assist in showing me how it was created in the first place. To paraphrase ' If you don't know where you've been you can't know where you are going!' I will have a go at your method Jane an...

I appear to have got my Kn****rs in a twist. If you are sitting comfortably I'll begin.... Recently I purchased a Notepad for use away from my PC and when away from home. Being to smart for my own good I tried DropBox to keep files up to date regardless of which m/c I was using. I now appear to have...

I might have this wrong but by 'memory' do you mean RAM in which case 2Gb sounds fine for FH. If however you are enquiring about storage of files you are probably into the 100's of Gb's on modern computers and again should find this quite adequate ,depending of course whether or not you are filling ...

Both sites most useful, many thanks for your help.
Dagwood[smile]

The little folk in the family (and at long last some of the bigger ones!)are now getting interested in the fact that we come from diverse places throughout Great Britain and Ireland. I want to chart locations on a map and draw coloured (named) lines of family movements showing how they/we all ended ...

When we got back so far with research (using Ancestry) that marriage records did not always show a wife's maiden name we were entering the christian name only. What a mistake! Now we put, for example, ANN(UNKNOWN)DAGWOOD where Dagwood is the husband's name and (Unknown) highlights in the family list...

Again ,my thanks to all who replied and I take the points made by the two Davids. I was not aware you could still use the old forms and will try to do so as I find the changes made by Ancestry do sometimes make searches more difficult. The point made by Gerry I can vouch for - on a number of occasio...

Thanks Nick, I'll take a look at that also.
Dagwood