Family Historian User Group

25th February

I think you are right, if you look at his style of writing on the H and e of Head, he uses the same style for the K and e of keen

I will second that, I use Proshow Gold, and I am yet to see anything better.

Paul,

See my message above.

if you get stuck, let me know, as I have the current version of Family Tree Maker installed on my computer.  I could easily convert it to gedcom if you email it to me.

Run Windows Explorer, browse to the folder where your gedcom files is stored, make a copy of the file, right click on the copy file and select open with, select notepad, if it is not in the list, click on select program and find notepad.  Then whn you have the file open in notepad, from the menu sel...

I also adopt the generation at a time method, and since I started when I was 15 years old, I have been at it for 37 years, I now have all 32 3* and 40 of the 64 4*, it is now getting difficult to say the least !! I have a few families that go back further than my 4*, but my oldest confirmed entry wa...

This is an Internet Explorer Problem where Your security settings are probably preventing the help topics from displaying. All you need to do if this happens is:- navigate to the folder where the help file is installed, typically C:Program FilesFamily HistorianProgram. right click on the file fh.chm...

I would go for TIFF, but look here for comparison

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison ... le_formats

The oldest original I have is a marriage certificate of my great grandparents dated 25/04/1896. I know that they are around long before this though

Better value to subscribe to ancestry.co.uk, you can then see unlimited views of any census and lots more besides. I am not quite sure about paying someone to search on EBay, as I think this may breach copyright on the census CD's.  I know I printed a small booklet about the 1881 census for my villa...

Viking Direct do not sell foolscap paper.

Here you go,

http://www.inclusive.co.uk/catalogue/ac ... lscap.html

US Foolscap size paper - 1 Ream
Price: £13.00 (Ex VAT)

Have you by any chance used resprivata ? If you have, and have failed to tick the remove picture sound and text links, well then all sorts of wierd things will have happened to your privatised file. Not worked out what exactly happens, but something along the lines of, all links to above files are a...

Yes, My copy arrived today

Yes, I had a similar email when I asked for an update as they had charged my card already, saying that he was starting early to process orders because of the volume he has to process, and to save time when they do get the CD's. So hopefully, it will soon be on its way

My Card has also been charged, so heres hoping

Hi, Thanks for your imput, and Yes, I have several options available, including notes, which as I said, I would rather not use, I would prefer a tag, that would not be stripped out as unwanted notes field in conversion to html (For privacy). It would be very nice if the option 'Reference' appeared o...

It would be good if you could add user defined tags. Yes, I know you can add user defined attributes and events, but not Tags, at least if you can I have not managed to find it. Why and where do I want it, well, Joe Bloggs appears on the 1881 Census, so I add a Census Event, I am then given the opti...

I ought to mention that for the 300 entries listed as married, the same people were also listed as single, same goes with under aged widows etc.

I have been using the method for quite a while. I am using 1901 Census Extractor mentioned above. You have the option within this program to delete duplicates, but it will only do this for records where every field is duplicated. I find the best way is to export them to csv file, then import them in...

* ALL Windows to be re-sizable, and to remember their positions and sizes....a basic windows function

* Columns to remember their widths, I get fed up of expanding them