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My great grandfather on my fathers side was Alfred Clarke. My connection to.him is that he marries Elizabeth Nash Scott. Some time around the 1900s. I'm interestes in the alfred clarke you apoke of in a post stating something about his.connected to.India. we have an asian decwnt disease called behc...

I have seen others report that the Reference number was removed after they paid to unlock the image. I can still see the reference numbers in the preview using Firefox. I plan to log all the reference numbers as I find them.

Just wanted to post a note that Joe has released a new version of Clooz which now will export to Family Historian. However, since I've been squandering huge amounts of time gathering more source material and taking webinars instead of actually entering any of my data, I still haven't learned Clooz p...

At the moment, I am using Associated Persons to link the appropriate clergy to the parishioners. But I wonder if a Named List of Clergy People in Family Historian might help you pop up a list of candidates, even if you have to switch away from AS for a moment to use it? I cross-check the clergy in m...

Just a quick update -- Simon did say that there had been a problem with people getting un-subscribed from the list. I had been getting the list in Digest form, but to better cope with the spamming, I have switched to getting the messages in the ordinary list form. This allows me to delete the offend...

Ouch. I am a long-time researcher, and all that time I have kept upgrading BK. When (and if) I get up to speed with FH, probably it would be my intention to keep BK, at no cost, in reserve, but not adding to it. These days I am entering very few new names. I am anticipating that FH will be much bet...

I forgot to mentio that I have created a new template on Ancestral Sources and am happy with the way it works. Thanks very much for sharing this, Irene, and thanks to Mike for his efforts, too. I don't know how soon I'll be needing the template for AS, because the people I'm most interested in find...

Some thoughts on the 1939 Register so far -- I have received three discount codes so far -- one at 25% from Find My Past since I am a subscriber, and two at 10% for signing up to get news about the Register, and as a subscriber to the Lost Cousins newsletter. If you are looking for a way to reduce t...

I do get that Stack Exchange has a particular way of handling its postings, and voting on answers is a novel technique, but in the genealogy domain where Forums are probably more focussed is it really that different? Mike -- Apologies for the very tardy reply to your question from earlier this year...

In 1893 he married Ann Maria Frances Ryder , I have the copy of certificate & it shows his father as a soldier, I think he did not want it known his father committed suicide. Do any of the census records say where in India your John Grimshaw was born? There are some parish registers and civil regis...

After a bit of computer trouble, I've gone back to working with the FMP tree hints. Part of the difficulties I had were caused by my not realizing how to add something to the tree as alternate information, but after watching the webinar I'll give that feature a try. The main difficulty I see now is ...

I saw this link in one of the Genealogy groups on Facebook. The article is from last summer so could be outdated.


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During the past week or so, I have joined the Facebook group dedicated to the discussion of the Genealogy Do-Over. People have been sharing research logs, and it has been fun to see what other people design. There's no need to apologize because your tools are simple. Sometimes simple tools are the m...

I've been participating more on social media lately, and I've talking about the new release of FH6 on Twitter, Google+, and Facebook. I'm participating in the Genealogy Do-Over and have joined the Facebook group. It's a bit disheartening to see the new people automatically rushing to choose between ...

Hints for Emily with the relevance score at the end: Type Name Event Year Place Record Set Relevance Emily Clarke 1904 Plymouth, Devon, England England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 98 Emily Clarke 1937 Plymouth, Devon, England England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 96 Emily G Clarke 1924 St. Thomas, Devon, En...

What methods do people use for archiving their downloads? I can burn a disc and store it with my boxed FH 3.1 files, but burned discs don't have the same longevity as manufactured ones.

Phil -- I'm impressed! I have found quite a few records on Find My Past, but I haven't attached them all yet because the tree system is new, and I was using FMP before on a 1-month sub. (The major records found elsewhere are from the National Probate Calendar -- I would love to see this record group...

Hello, Phil, and welcome to FHUG! It's early days on the hints yet, since I've barely started filling in a tree. I'll post a sample that was waiting for me this morning so others here can see what I got. I have a person on my tree named Alfred Clarke. I have gathered a lot of information about him o...

I thought this blog post from Australia's Gould Genealogy might be of interest:

Who Owns What in the Genealogy World?

Ha! fultonhistory.com is "only" at #50. Tom Tryniski Digitizes 27 Million Old Newspaper Pages in His Living Room (While Commercial Services Fight to Catch Up) It is one of my favorite websites. I got a major breakthrough on a brick wall problem I *never* thought I would solve. I recommend the websit...

I am keeping an eagle-eye on your experiments! :lol: In case anyone else is interested, Thomas MacEntee of GeneaBloggers fame has announced an upcoming schedule of events he is calling the Do-Over: Announcing the Genealogy Do-Over Genealogy Do-Over: Schedule of Topics His reasoning is that when we ...

Hi, Joe! I really appreciate your taking the time to come here and join the discussion. Part of the problem with learning to use Clooz is that I'm trying to learn too many things at once. I have the new features in Family Historian to play with, I have Clooz to learn, I have a couple of other progra...

More and more, I'm liking GenQuiry, but of course that won't help you on the iPad. I too am frustrated by the clash of ecosystems, since I have a Windows desktop computer and an Android Phone, but would also like an iPad. I am also trying to maintain a workflow that doesn't depend on having a connec...

Thanks for your reply. Given some of the reviews I've seen of the newest version of Legacy, I don't have confidence in Legacy's GEDCOM export, so I guess I'll wait it out. I often research families of neighbors and business associates, so I can use some of this data to experiment with Clooz. At the ...

Howdy, neighbor! Another NorCal user here. One thing that puzzles me is how the "Label" and "Abbreviation" fields are intended to be used in the Fact Definition screen. My suggestion: take a look at the existing facts, or create one fact as a test vehicle, and play around with the definition to see ...