Family Historian User Group

hf said: LIfe is Soooo complicated sometimes that I wonder whether sticking to traditional paper files isn't easiest - yes, I know, computerised stuff gives much easier questioning etc. Very many thanks for your help. hf You're quite welcome. I don't know how others feel about this, but I think one...

ChrisBowyer said: 'Correspondence with...' or even 'Conversation with...'. Yes, absolutely! I have information in the files for my husband's family which is part of their family tradition, and all those bits and pieces should be tagged with the name of the person you learned them from. I also recor...

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Jan

Yes, you should record with each source (not just the census) the data which is on the source. The auto-text box filling in some data is just to save the user a bit of typing -- Nick makes it clear in the help that the auto-text will have to be tweaked to fit what the census actually shows. You can ...

I had the same thing happen the first time I used Gedcom Census. I usually have both Gedcom Census and Family Historian open at the same time, so if there are people on the census who are not in my Family Historian file yet. After saving a census record with Gedcom Census, if you switch to Family Hi...

I chose Family Historian after several months of trying several different programs precisely because of the ease it provides in creating new sources and citing them vs. the other programs I tried. FH has a wonderful feature called Auto-Source citation. So in contrast to what most other programs enco...

arshawbrown said: I have several parish register entries that read (e.g.) William son of William Brown and his wife Eliza late Bowers. This has proved to be her maiden name on most occaisions. I have not yet come across this for burials however I would imagine that it refers to the deceased. Juat g...

I have this problem, too, and sometimes the opposite one. I find someone with the same name as one of my relatives as a boarder / lodger /servant in someone else's household. If I am not sure I have the right person, I sometimes enter these records into a separate database so I can refer to them lat...

How about this (if you have broadband) for comparing the pre-1888 map with the current one? The UCLA Department of Epidemiology / School of Public Health has Dr. John Snow's map of London in 1859 here: http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/1859map/map1859.html There are two indices for the map, one presen...

Just saw a posting on the Genealogy Insider blog at the US magazine Family Tree Magazine: http://www.familytreemagazine.com/insider/ The British Library has a 'virtual exhibit': London: A Life in Maps http://www.bl.uk/londoninmaps GI says: The 40 historic plats are organized on a Google map, making ...

Family Relatives has some military records, but they may be PPV. WW2 Army records are on this page: http://www.familyrelatives.com/search/search_wwiiarmy.php Army Search GRO War Deaths British Army Officers Indices 1939-1948 GRO War Deaths British Army Other Ranks 1939-1948 GRO War Deaths Naval Offi...

Just wanted to mention for those of us doing research in the US, or for those of you who like to compare what records are available in the US and UK -- the US National Archives does have some information online, on their Access to Archival Databases (AAD) website. The link is http://aad.archives.gov...

When doing any census work, I highly recommend having a good modern map of any area you plan to study extensively, learning what you can about the area as it is now, and trying to pin down when things changed. It's much easier to see changes between the historical map and the modern one if you have ...

Every now and again when I review my data, I wonder if I am getting the most out of Family Historian. Today's puzzler: the 'child count' attribute. It seems straightforward enough. You have a record that says someone has X children -- you have a place to record this number. Voila! Ah, but the US Cen...

To expand on the idea of named lists -- I recently subscribed to the new 'international collection' at World Vital Records. Through an arrangement with FindMyPast.com, subscribers can search on their WVR account and link to the data at FMP. They are rolling out the different collections at different...

Greetings, Nick -- As you might guess, I don't usually make use of the date ranges in my own tree either -- but now that I know more about the rounding that went on with the 1841 census, I feel I should at least make note of that rather than calculate an age which could be as much as four years off....

One of the features I like about Gedcom Census is the function which reports '[name] was born in [year] (calculated) and in this census would be aged [age n or age n+1] (calculated)'. It allows one to see at a glance whether or not the new census being entered matches up with previous records, or no...

May I add my thanks, too -- this is an excellent site, which I'm glad to know about. The principle is, work backwards from our own time. If someone worked as a ship's steward today, what records might be generated about them? When did those requirements come into being? What records might be the equ...

You're welcome!

It may not yield any useful data, but researching this kind of thing can be fun in its own right.

Jan

The difficulty with the records from Ellis Island and other ports is that the lists kept for the ships' crews have much less detail than the lists kept for passengers. It is much more difficult to determine whether you are really looking at a record which belongs to your ancestor, or someone else wi...

I think the case for whether one should work in separate files depends on the individual research needs and should be decided on that basis. In my case, I am studying family history as well as genealogy, so I am studying people associated with the family as well as blood relatives. If you are doing ...

I forgot to add that trial versions of GenSmarts can often be found on the YFT cover discs -- it is on the disc for issue 61.

Jan

Could it be (3) the deceased had multiple wives, and Anne is his most recent one?

Jan

At the moment I use the standard immigration/emmigration events, with the understanding that there may be multiple trips. I would suggest for those who are lucky enough to be working with the later, very detailed lists for the Ellis Island arrivals, be sure to examine the columns which indicate if t...

Jane said: To be honest I am not sure what you were doing originally, as html files have always required a browser to view them as far as I can remember. Either a browser, or a text editor which is designed to be used in writing html files. I have a couple of different editors which can handle html...