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My understanding is that "permanently signed in" and similar depends on cookies. When a cookie is set, I believe it can be set as "indefinite" but in practice most "persistent" log in cookies are set to a maximum of "a year" - sometimes much less (for LDS it is for instance 14 days). That is why I w...

Surely it rather depends on the project and whether it is sub-dividable? A one name study for "Smith" is likely to be larger than one for "Sewell". However some studies divide relatively easily (at least until you get back (historically) to where you are wondering if all the bits fit together). My s...

Stand-alones? Are you using "progenitor" with a specifically religious meaning? I struggled with your original question because a "progenitor" to me is any biologically related ancestor, whilst you seem to be trying to define a sort of "earliest identified Grimbarian" or "First Generation Grimbarian...

I did wonder if it was something to do with the recent move? I had similar problems starting a few weeks ago - so also wondered. It may be that the new themes set cookies that are less persistent? Anyway remembering to click the box on the log in page "Remember me" seems to do the trick (although y...

But if you want a diagram that will show the relationship between "a" and "j", a diagram showing ancestors of "e" and "f" won't do it? I tend to create a diagram for say "family "c" and then by right clicking in the diagram use "Insert into diagram" to bring in the tree for "h". Then I prune the sec...

Since they are all the same place, there should be only one Place record regardless of all the spellings. (That is the same concept as people who should have only one Individual record regardless of their name spellings.) In a Place record the main name should be the most popular. The Standardized ...

Evelyn, (Whether this lives under "Umlauts and accents" or gets moved to a new query, I am not sure) I would like to ask other people too how they handle different spellings of place names when writing queries. Especially where a name in English differs from the source in German. Hanover and Hannove...

Please forgive my ignorance but what does AS stand for? AS- Ancestral Sources - a clever helper program for swift entry of information like census data into FH. Like FH it is a windows program (where it works well). Getting it to work under Linux/Wine it is not worth the effort to get it running (a...

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08 Sep 2019 20:07

Try ticking the Remember me option in the Login dialogue.
Otherwise there is tendency for premature logout if you are not entering data.

Thanks that seems to suppress the problem
Never suffered from premature logout before - must be getting old (which I suppose is inevitable)

Just wondering if FamilyHistorian versions 5 or 6 can be run in a Linux OS. I use Linux Mint 19.1 on my other computer and love it. I'd really like to have my FamilyHistorian program running on my Linux Mint machine, because FamilyHistorian is the only thing keeping me tied to Windows. If I can hav...

I am trying to track down a possible child (now an adult) who was adopted out of a family. This is in England and Wales Looking for the birth registration I expected to find a female child whose surname matched the mother's surname - usually a sign of an illegitimate birth; If that child was then ad...

Since the changes I have found that I lose my login status when navigating between a post page and an index. I don't think it is a change in my browser addins (FHUG cookies are whitelisted). If it is a known problem following recent forum changes I will live(!) with the problem rather than launch a ...

If you are literally just transcribing from one system to another it may not matter too much. But If you are taking it as an opportunity to validate your previous research I would move person to person within each family group checking all the "essential records" (BMD CB & census/1939 +WW1 records -...

Mike Is the method you describe the one that became established before FH supported witnesses? I must admit I have been toying with the OPs approach. You enter the Census details under the Head of Household and set everyone else as a witness. Where the head of household is not in the tree you set up...

If you are a member of the Guild of One Name Studies they have a facility for taking data and putting it into TNG format. That of course relies on the continued existence of the Guild - and over a really long horizon not much can be guaranteed. County Archives are another possibility, but I suspect ...

I have created a custom fact type Research Research / Todo / Task facts take you part of the way. If the fact relates to Individuals (or by relatively easy? extension to families) you are arguably "there" - and the Research Planner suite of queries and reports does most of what you might want. (See...

Regarding ' hyperlinks ', the examples you give are designed into the target application (HTML URL specification, LibreOffice product, Thunderbird Plugin). To achieve something similar with FH would require a design upgrade, but as you correctly say not all GEDCOM database components can be uniquel...

David, what matters in the context of Plugins is how they can ' discover ' that Desktop full file path and then save a text file there. The problem that Plugin authors face is that they cannot experiment on a Linux/WINE platform or a MacOS/Crossover platform without involving users such as yourself...

Watching this thread and had a look at how my system FH 6.2.7 Wine 3.0.4 Bionic Lubuntu 18.04 LTS (64 bit) on an i5 8th Gen Processor with 8GB RAM (also running Firefox, Thunderbird, Zim, Rhythmbox, Clementine etc - i.e. fairly heavily loaded but not graphics intensive) Screen 1910x1080 Manipulating...

Hyperlinks only work with Web servers so would not work for this. In respect of Jane's comment about hyperlinks, I may be using the wrong phraseology but I am looking for the ability to create a link in a document (Todo list, WP document, etc) that lives within my system to another document (or pla...

I'm using Wine under Linux (Lubuntu 18.04 LTS) but not Crossover. I'm managing reasonably well and beginning to see what I originally classified as limitations as differences (e.g. modality/focus of dialogues). Re "Windows Desktop". On my installation, it seems to shortcut back to my Linux Desktop. ...

Helen In the research planner plugin I would like to see if it can work for families as well as individuals (Not being able to add facts to other record types means I think that we have to restrict it to that - otherwise we become the same as Jane's Private Notes method which whilst very flexible is...

The Mother's Maiden Name as recorded in GRO Index can also present the unwary researcher with problems when no corresponding Marriage Index entry can be found, as it suggests a variety of possibilities (apart from simple miss-indexing), including she was married before and the marriage was only ind...

Use of Zim for genealogical Work Management The advantages and disadvantage of using an external app I have found myself using this application more and more to help manage various genealogical projects that I find myself jumping between. The loose "wiki" structure helps enable this and the ability ...

There has been a three page (so far) thread developing on the New Wish List Requests Forum headed A simple to-do list . This has developed into a slightly wider discussion of means of managing our genealogical work. Some of us are trying to develop actions from this under the general headings of: Up...