Family Historian User Group

LornaCraig wrote: I still see the pink bar when I am signed in. (Using Firefox browser) However it is not very obtrusive.

It goes away for me when I'm signed into the wiki.

Shrinking the header has helped reduce the amount of orange -- thanks!

Is the pink "error bar" I get across the top of the knowledge base fixable?

The thing is that without changing any of these, the new forum allows much less to be displayed on the same size screen, in the same size browser window, with the same font settings, with the same level of zoom, and with the same number of forums. Incontrovertibly true. :D However, arguing that the...

it is no longer possible to see all the forums at a glance without scrolling down. This is so dependent on: (1) the size of your screen (2) the size of your browser window (3) the font settings you've chosen in your browser (4) the level of zoom/magnification you've chosen (5) the number of forums ...

I much prefer it -- the better use of white space improves legibility, and the new theme makes the site look much more welcoming and less like a dusty corner of an 90s bulletin board.

From personal experience, supporting two themes is making work I'd rather not dump on Jane.

From the screenshot it looks good, but can't judge completely until it's switched over.

Does that trick work for you? It just looks so weird to me that I can never get any advantage! It's one of the things I routinely try with a poor image, that and turning grey-scale into black-and-white. Or scaling the image up really far, printing out the word or letter or interest and then tracing...

tatewise wrote:For example a GRO BMD Certificate should be the GRO at Kew, whereas a Church Parish Register should perhaps be wherever that original register is archived.

Being pedantic, a GRO BMD certificate should be the GRO at Southport. Kew is The National Archives.

Yes, people like myself can get hours of innocent fun and amusement tangling ourselves up in questions like these... Won't get any work done but... Hours? More like days! a transcript can contain errors, while microfilming and digitisation shouldn't, Not all microfilms or digital images are equal. ...

I record all sources for all events with an explanation of how I've reconciled differences in the information provided (if in fact I have been able to reconcile differences). I may also record finding aids (such as GRO indices) as a transient 'source' but delete them once I've referred to the source...

I'm not David, but I use CustomID as a a (unique) cross-reference to the same individual in another programme -- Record ID has no meaning there. It would be very useful to see it in the Focus window.

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I'd volunteer, but I'm flat out finishing the next release of GenQuiry.

Like Nick with Ancestral Sources, I'm intending that the next version of GenQuiry will not include support for XP. It might work, it might not, but I'm neither in a position to test or support it in that environment, nor (more materially, and akin to the reason that Nick specifically gives ) to insi...

Booked x 2 (for me and the tortoise).

I do disagree slightly with Mike about Dropbox's role on a comprehensive backup strategy. It's one way to ensure you have off-site copies of your key data and make it resilient to fire, flood, burglary... anything that might affect your own local copy. It would be a very slow way to recover large am...

Yes, anything that is done to a dropbox file on your PC (or any other PC synchronised with the same dropbox account, or that has access to share some of your dropbox file) is reflected in the Dropbox cloud storage. Dropbox saves deleted files for 30 days (or longer if you pay for the 'Packrat' optio...

Your comment was not a waste, Adrian!

I'm running windows 8.1 and FH 5.0.9 and have had NO issues.

You might find it helpful to review Move Family Historian Settings & Projects if you haven't already done so, to ensure all your settings and data are transferred to the new PC as you would wish them to be.

I don't link paper files to individuals at all -- I file them under document type e.g. Civil Registration Certificate or will, and then with an ascending number in the order I obtained them. I scan all of them and link the image to the source, so I rarely (if ever) need to refer to the paper copy. I...

Another way of using the fields (if you're using a Source record for each source document) is: to record the complete contents of the document in the Text From Source in the Source record to use the Text From Source field in the Citation Pane to identify specifically which element of the overall sou...

Ron, If you have No-Squint installed, you can right-click with your mouse where on an FHUG window and you will be offered No-Squint Site Settings as an option.Click on that and you'll see this: Clipboard01.jpg This shows the settings I've got, but you can adjust to suit yourself. The only thing you...

Ron, It shouldn't cause you any problems with emails or FH, but I suggest you get your Grandson to install it alongside Internet Explorer (plus the NoSquint add-on). You can use IE and Firefox in parallel (although you have to chose one as 'default') -- I suggest you experiment with Firefox and swi...

Ron Saban said in topic 10820|Back up In FHUG the icons and subject matter are in a light brown which is difficult to see; is there any way that I can turn it to black? [/size] Ron, What browser are you using? if it's Firefox, there's an add-in called No-Squint which can automatically adjust font s...

jmurphy wrote:
I've just installed the Scrivener free trial from Literature and Latte.

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Has anyone tried Evidentia yet?

I've been using Scrivener for some years, but not for Family History. And I haven't tried Evidentia (it seems a bit unethical for me to do so, somehow).