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Here's how they describe it: PortableApps.com provides a truly open platform that works with any hardware you like (USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive, etc). It's open source built around an open format that any hardware vendor or software developer can use. http://portableapps.com/about/wha...

looking forward to seeing the new version....

Jan

SunnyLady said: Bitten the bullet and now have the demo version of FH on my U3 4 gig sandisc memory stick - does all I want which enables me to look at stuff and show others ... no printing but that is not a problem for me - so all I do is copy the gedcom across as and when.... If you have or are g...

Pauline said: Thank you Jan for your constructive reply. Unfortunately I do not have Firefox but use IE6. I have just tried download again to no avail. I'm going to do another search on my computer to see if there are any old files of previous downloads lurking, though I keep clearing the cache. Wh...

One of the books I have in my library is Emily Croom's Unpuzzling Your Past http://www.unpuzzling.com/ and its companion workbook with handy forms which can be removed and photocopied. Other log forms are available from websites, other books, etc. What I don't understand is, these forms exist, and t...

what browser are you using? If you are using Firefox, go to 'Downloads' and clear out the list of files you have downloaded. For 1.5, a list which was too full (I think it was over 20 entries) would cause your downloads to stall. I don't know if they have fixed the issue with 2.0, because I got into...

ChrisBowyer said: 2. The form is sizable but the contents don't respond to being resized. It seems to use an unnecessary amount of my screen considering I have a source document and my family tree open at the same time when I want to use it. (This looks even more silly on the Instructions form). Do...

I agree with Jane's suggestion to build a small sample file, in order to learn how to do data entry in FH. And I highly recommend Nick Walker's excellent add-on, Gedcom Census, for entering census data. If you dislike the feeling you are duplicating your previous work, then choose some other task su...

The new version looks much better on my setup -- thanks! One comment on 1841. A kind soul did a census lookup for me and sent a transcription. When I put in the ages for the members of this family, I get a warning that the age is unlikely because the age was supposed to be rounded down to the neares...

Well, this is embarrassing. I use the program GenSmarts http://www.gensmarts.com/ . It is a research assistant -- it scans your GEDCOM file and alerts you to missing records in your files, and suggests websites and other research facilities where you might find the missing data. I wrote a quick note...

At the moment, I only have a dozen discs, so I haven't cataloged them. They are stored in a file box along with the CDs for my genealogy software and other software CDs and DVDs. To date the only time they've had material on the area I am working on (Devon), it was the issue where the cover story wa...

Just wanted to post a few links for the users here who might not be familiar with U3 and other portable applications. The main U3 site: http://www.u3.com/ U3 fakes out your computer into thinking it is running an application off a CD-ROM. There's a program called the LaunchPad from which you run the...

My tired old Win98 box is at your service. [wink]

Jan

The other question I would ask is, if there is a name change for a child adopted by the new husband, if there is no new certificate issued, where else might that information be recorded? In my own case, (ordinary adoption as an infant in the US) I have a 'birth registration' rather than a birth cert...

Just wanted to mention that I subscribe to Cyndi Howell's mailing list on which she announces the new links that have been submitted to her web site 'Cyndi's List'. One of the recent emails had a link for John and Barbara Dixon's web site. Barbara Dixon has a series of tutorials on registrations in ...

You're welcome -- I look forward to seeing the new version.

Jan

Dear Jo, Thanks for making this tool available for trial. I have just installed it and tested it with one date to make sure it was working. When I have more time, I will run some trials with people in my database whose birth dates are known. I have some census entries and other documents with known ...

I use GenSmarts to look for research suggestions. Family Historian users can choose the option to work with GEDCOM files.

http://www.gensmarts.com/

Jan

I haven't done any photo restoration yet, but in my to-read pile I have one of the 'Dummies' books dealing with Photo Restoration. The publisher's website has helpful 'articles' excerpted from the books. Those might give you an idea of what sorts of things are possible when retouching photos. http:/...

I am quite happy with the way things work now -- and I can see that it would be an insane amount of work to change the program to deal with that situation, which is rare. I posted about it because I was amused at myself, sitting there like a dolt thinking 'now what do I do?' when clearly, I could ha...

Hello, Nick -- Just wanted to mention that today I had what a programmer might call an 'unexpected conditon'. While entering a family's census record, there was a lodger in the household for which there was no information at all aside from his name and gender. Thus I had no age or birthplace informa...

Just to clarify: I am in the US, researching locations that are not where I currently live, so much of my research is done online. I have access to the Ellis Island records, and the other US ports (via Ancestry.com). The questions I have now are a result of finding second entries -- where the person...

My husband's family came to the US from Devon, and like many families, went back and forth between England and the US multiple times. Some of the trips are annoyingly timed so that they just missed the census -- on both sides of the Atlantic. On the US side I've been able to fill in some of the gaps...

Bygones stalls on my Win98 box probably 4 times out of 5.

Jan

I've looked at Bygones, but it doesn't seem to get along with my elderly computer.

Sometimes it starts.

Sometimes it doesn't.

Since I can't get it to start reliably, I haven't used it much.

Jan