Family Historian User Group

Jane's intervention ("going above and beyond what FHUG does") should offer a solution to your immediate problem. (Most of us I suspect have suffered similar problems because you can never remember what happened years ago when you installed the software!) I address this problem through a feature of m...

I think I am "stretching" towards thinking: Residence is an habitual "fact" - I am a UK resident, I could call my home "my residence", (a bit "grand" for a modest dwelling) Death notices often say "he died 'at his residence'" This is a key bit of information for family historians and distinct from a...

FYI: GEDCOM Standard 5.5 definition says: RESI {RESIDENCE}:= The act of dwelling at an address for a period of time. GEDCOM Draft 5.5.1 definition says: RESI {RESIDENCE}:= An address or place of residence that a family or individual resided. So it is down to interpretation as to how long establishe...

The other thing to remember is that there is an assumption behind, "away from home". Do we actually know he/she was "away from home" and that they were not actually "at home" for some reason - fostered or informally adopted out, major family breakdown, child actually living with their genetic father...

... You may think the family is unrelated to the child, but it may turn out later that there is some relationship, otherwise why is he residing there? It is often worth recording details of the household where "strays" are found at a census. My GGF was a stray in an 1800's census, but it made sense...

Is there an established view of how names like: Simon de Vere Michael du Bois Ursula von der Leyen William of Normandy Henry of Wales Herbert von Karajan Jacqueline du Pré Manuel de Falla Leonardo DiCaprio Leonardo di ser Perio da Vinci Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan Should be entered? I woul...

... but the student contact was too much like Facebook comments as the student discussion was not directed. There were some quite scathing personal comments ... This is a problem that I have seen with some FutureLearn courses (and more limited experience with other similar providers). On some cours...

I have tended to find the ISOGG wiki "heavy going"

That rather points the finger at the likes of Leicester University? (Who do do some FutureLearn Courses)

ColeValleyGirl wrote: ↑

29 Oct 2019 15:58

... or a more detailed look at DNA.

Anyone know anyone in the likes of ISOGG? It's not just Universities who produce courses for Future Learn (and similar). Perhaps they might find the platform a useful education tool?

This highlights how things like Wine/Cross-over are temporary work-arounds until a native source can be found. They are temporary because we cannot guarantee that they will work with New versions of the OS on which we run them New versions of the software we want to run on them My OS (Linux - Ubuntu...

I notice the following (free) online course has just started: Genealogy: Researching Your Family Tree Develop an understanding of genealogy – how to research your family tree and share the results – with this free online course. It is run on the FutureLearn platform by Strathclyde University - both ...

Valkrider wrote: ↑

29 Oct 2019 13:53

The problem for them is that Wine, which Crossover is a flavour of, does not run on the latest Mac OS as Wine is 32bit. Wine is working on a 64bit version as are Crossover.

Current status of 64bit Wine per WineHQ

... but there are not a lot of programs that cross all platforms that are not compromised in some way and I mean all over not just genealogy. Office: Libre Office, Open Office Browsers: Firefox, Opera, Chrome/Chromium Email: Thunderbird (which has met my needs for years so not explored others) Musi...

Or even a native Linux version - then I can retire WINE?

I first got an offer last April but, being elderly, one never knows for sure how things will be that far ahead. I know the feeling - but it is interesting to note that 25% discounts were available last week; possibly that was always planned or possibly ticket sales have been disappointing? I have n...

Once you have your tree as described above you can "trim" it by Using the little circle that you see on the line dropping down from the marriage link to the children - clicking on this will hide the children You can also right click on an individual and select "hide" which removes them from the diag...

I have um'ed and ah'ed about going but: London is a hell of a trek from English/Scottish Borders ExCeL is a struggle to get to either by Underground/Docklands Railway with Rucksack(!) or by car (London does not like Cars) It's a multi-day event so either expensive semi-local accommodation or another...

I am happy to have multiple occupations recorded say at a specific census; so I will record "Blacksmith" as an occupation fact and "Bailiff for County Court" as a separate occupation fact. As long as I am consistent with the spelling of "Blacksmith" / "Black Smith" etc. this allows me to do more use...

If you record that a couple got engaged, you create "a family"!

although there was Dorothy Walters who married 4 times between 1807 and 1828 and outlived all 4 husbands and all 4 of her children. My Great Great Great Grandmother married twice (legally: married, widowed, married) to identically named men - who appear to be unrelated! Talk about repeat purchases!

FYI: GEDCOM does not assume that if there were children there was a marriage. All it defines is a Family record with optional links to a Husband , a Wife , and unlimited Children . It is valid to have single parent or no parent families, and no Marriage Event is implied. That is why "couples" is an...

Isn't a "cougar/toyboy" relationship status somewhat sexist and unidirectional Mary Ann to Charles :lol: i.e. He is her "toyboy". What would be the equivalent relationship of Charles to Mary Ann :?: Is it sexist or just judgemental - when we do not necessarily know the level of intimacy and cannot ...

I strongly suspect I need a "cougar/toyboy" relationship status... :lol: Joking aside, is the "family" (relationship) entity the problem rather than any need to guess at some form of judgemental status? This is I think structural to GEDCOM - probably a legacy of its origins. We know and can record ...

The unmarried couple have no Marriage Event and thus no Marriage Event Date so the only order is that determined by the Spouse tabs, unless a custom Family Event such as Liaison (or Fling ) is entered with a Date . FH does not classify such relationships as marriages as evidenced by the Narrative R...

One complication is that the James & Jean 'fling' can only be entered on the Spouse tab before or after the James & Margaret marriage and not during. That may affect the way the details in Reports are produced. Doesn't that come back to what is the meaning of the Marriage.Date field? Is it the "Sta...