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Another thought - did he change his name? If it was registered you might find it online at the London Gazette.

Hi vpfz,

Have you checked if he emigrated?

Have you checked for a military or naval service record? (at Kew - not online yet for the period before 1914, afaik)

Gerry

My V4 upgrade arrived by post yesterday and I installed it over my upgraded V3 with absolutely no problems. With some trepidation I created a new project for my Gedcom file. However, I needn’t have worried as it has faithfully reproduced my carefully thought out directory system holding in excess of...

It is now the blue triangle on the button bar of the Property Box - hovering the cursor over it shows 'Up'.

Gerry

Thanks, Jon.

Gerry

Cole Valley Girl said: If you can't wait until jane comes back, you can tick the Show Completed option and scan through for the ones added in version 4. Not quick, unless there's a particular area of functionality in which you're interested. Ah! Didn't realise that was how it worked. Thanks. Gerry

Jane said: Version 4 allowed me to close 22 wishes from the list Jane, I know how busy you have been answering posts arising from the release of V4, but if you have the time, could you list which 22 Wish List items have been included in V4, please? (I did look in the Wish List section but couldn't ...

JonAxtell said: As to why the export and split tree are different, I blame it one on of FH's main failings - lack of orthogonality/consistency. Jon, If you think FH is so bad, why do you continue to use it? Whilst you may have a point, I think your frequent 'FH-bashing' is extremely negative and il...

Yes, many thanks to Jane for her hard work on the forum and extensive knowledge of FH. The new How-Tos for V4 are excellent.

'automagically' - I like that word!

And I would also like to add my thanks to Nick for his fantastic software and recommend it to anyone who hasn't yet downloaded it.

Gerry

goodwin2 said: My last comment - not yet having v4 - is, if there will be an upgrade - perhaps sooner than later - could Simon PLEASE add the ability to initially convert dates in FH [as we convert our gedcom from another program] to our US format and to allow input in that US format? Have you set ...

I think you have to keep things in perspective. How does the sub for Ancestry compare with other expenditure on youself and your leisure activities? If family history is your main hobby and if Ancestry is the right web site for the records you need then their charges are still reasonable. You also n...

I am fairly sure that both 1) and 2) mean 'in the County of York'

Gerry

There are quite a lot of them, although the information recorded varies from numbers only to something akin to the 1841 census.

Try Googling 'pre-1841 census' for a selection of what is available.

Gerry

Jan, You have to be quite imaginative when searching the census records. It has even been know for names to be turned around so that John Smith becomes Smith John - ie Forename Smith, family name John. I don't know whether it is true but I believe the surname Ditto is quite common! Spelling can be v...

I am missing some 1851 Census records.  I decided to check FindMyPast again to see if they might have a better index than Ancestry or had records that Ancestry might have missed out on.    Nope, still incomplete.   Jan, Large parts of the 1851 Census covering Cambridgeshire, Essex, Suffolk and Dors...

'If visiting the National Archives, any _TNA_ owned records that have been digitised - e.g. English censuses, probate, non-conformist RG4 records etc are available on the PCs at Kew free of charge, (you just pay the standard copying fee for for any printouts you make).' Even better, if you have a l...

You might want to check out this review: http://www.genealogyreviews.co.uk/fhmMay07_atlas.htm especially the comments: 'The other problem is that the UK counties used are given the post-1974 administrative authority names and boundaries, whereas most family historians probably use the historic count...

I'm not sure this is a good idea. If you have customised events etc how will FH know where the data is supposed to go when you change the event? A residential attribute isn't really much like an occupation attribute, although they may have some common data. Are we trying to get FH to be too clever? ...

Another point in favour of Ancestry is the agreement with LMA to digitise all the parish records for London - they should start to come on-line this year.

Gerry

Jane,

Thanks for the correction. It was a tip I gleaned from the internet some while ago. It makes the presentation of names consistent and works fine in FH. As everyone I know about so far has their forename before their surname then it works OK for me.

Gerry

I stuck with Ancestry as it has all the census records I need, including UK and USA and lots else besides. In fact, I extended my sub from UK to everything as I have recently found ancestors who emigrated. However, I can get Family Search and others free at SOG, although this is not as convenient as...

Apparently, gedcom ignores anything after a closing '/' so I find the following works well for me. If I enter: Mary//[Spouse of John Smith] FH resolves this as: Mary // [Spouse of John Smith] All these entries are listed first alphabetically and so it is easy to find them when I need to add addition...

Helen,

Thanks. I couldn't see the tab option until I selected save as text!

The Excel macro now works perfectly and gives a very useful analysis.

Gerry

I've just downloaded the latest version but I still get an error message when I try to run the Excel macro. I wonder if the problem is that I am not saving the query result in the correct format. The instructions say save as a tab delimited text file. There doesn't seem to be an option to do this in...