Family Historian User Group

Stevebye said:
They can on FreeBMD !

Didn't realise Free BMD has gone that far forward. No sign of my husband on there. Interstingly enough, my in-laws are there. They shan't be happy when I tell them! Will be an intersting conversation.

But to get to the index, you have to pay. Granted, ancestry/fmp membership isn't much, but it's a deterrent for fraudulent activity. I suppose as long as you can't get an uncertified copy without a GRO reference and it doesn't become a replacement for the index, it should be all right. I actually th...

Actually, I'm not sure I'm in favour of this. From a family history research point of view it would be fantastic. But for living people, it would be another instance of their data being online. It's far too easy as it is for identity fraud to happen. The current cost is at least a small deterrent. I...

sdl180 said: I would imagine that County flags won't be so controversial, except perhaps between Yorkshire and Lancashire maybe, Steve I wish! Must be a northern thing, but feeling for birthplace are very strong in my in-laws. If I put a city durham flag on a co. durham person, I'll be in trouble! ...

ChrisM said: The result is here Exactly what I had in mind! But my worry is that as I'm not from around any of those parts myself, I wouldn't know the ones that are obviously wrong. Interesting thought tho about using the right one as things change over time. Newcastle was Northumberland and is now...

Does anyone have a good source for images of traditional county flags? I want to include icons in diagrams to show where people came from within England, but I need some flags to get started. I'm mainly after Northumberland, Co. Durham, Yorkshire, Yorkshire Ridings (east and west), Lancashire, Susse...

As I'm sure you've all worked out by now, I'm useless at expressions etc. I've just downloaded Jane's excellent Clean up Surname Capitalisation and ran it. It's very nice, but highlighted that I have first names in all caps too! And names with no capitalisation on either surname or first name. Is th...

That's good to know. If it disrupts things, I'll go back to using Nvu to edit html. Just means I can only do it on one pc, but I'd rather do that than upset what FH creates.

tatewise said: Merenwen, I am not sure how you achieved the highlighting using MS Word Don't ask me technical questions like that, I just open Word and do it! [tongue] All I know it works under Word 2003 onwards. It might work on some earlier version too, not sure. And Helen, I'm not sure. I know O...

I'm liking those a lot Jane!

I didn't realise the text boxes were so powerful and could pull dynamic data. Time to have a play!

I haven't yet had a good play with FHv5, but I suspect that FH itself is not capable of doing this as it won't know which ones are of particualr interest. However, any word processing program will be able to open the .html file as something you can edit. Go to the website/CD folder before you burn i...

Ancestral sources is an upgrade from gedcom census. On top of that, the information is saved in the family historian gedcom/project. Nothing is saved in Nick's programs. So whatever you have already done in Gedcom Census, you did to the gedcom and will show in FH, regardless of version and wether or...

The information can be moved no problem at all. Simply open the gedcom created witn v2 in v5 and away you go!

As to the other settings, this excelent guide might help:
http://www.fhug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id ... e_settings

V5 will overwrite v4, but will keep all your custom settings, diagrams, reports, etc. It adds features, so I don't see why you would want to run both versions?

I'll try Dagwood, but words aren't my strong point. I have 1 project that's my 'clean' file. It's all the information I have found in records, certificates etc. I have a second project called Ancestry. I started with the gedcom from Ancestry of one of my trees (like you, I have multiple ancestry tre...

Thanks Jane, that's what I thought, but no harm in asking is there? [grin]

I have a file where I can see multiple instances of 1 event, ie 3 births. All details appear the same appart from the source. Is there any way I can merge events? The individual people have been merged as have the families, but I am left with duplicate events.

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Dagwood said: When we find a record in Ancestry I copy it into the media folder in FH. I had never thought of merging gedcoms from Ancestry to FH. Feel like I need to clarify something here. Ancestry gedcoms do not import the images, only the website links to images in the source and the info. Henc...

It sounds odd to not need version 3 licence number at least, but you guys are the experts! I have bought a v5 full as like you I have a full v3 and v4 upgrade. I have had to reinstall in the past and will need to again soon and I just couldn't face that hassle again. Didn't know I'd only need the up...

Probably should have clarified that, you don't need v4 key to install v5 upgrade if you have v4 currently running, only if you need to reinstall totally in case of PC failure/new PC.

I hope I understood this correctly. You want to look at a spreadsheet of FH data and compare this to a spreadsheet of Ancestry data. You also want to use said spreadsheets individually so you know what data Ancestry is missing and what FH is missing (and possibly see if you have that data in the oth...

Sorry John, but that's not correct. Lorna & Tatewise have it right, you need to upgrade to the major version in between or buy a full install. You do not need to upgrade minor versions, ie 3.0 to 3.1 or 4.0 to 4.1.3. Sihick, please make sure you have access to the licence key for v4 upgrade. It will...

Intersting, the My History banner at the top of the page is now advertising V5 and they are taking orders for V5 (but no release date given). But no sign of it on the official website yet.

Back to waiting patiently...

Thanks Jane & Steve, I'll ammend my list. I might still get the Scotland one as I have a suposed marriage in Scotland referenced on a subsequent English marriage certificate that I can't find on the website mentioned.

I’m getting quite far with Ancestry/FamilySearch records for my English in-laws, but I’m struggling with the Irish and Scottish ones. So I’ve been having a look on the net for books that might help me with those and/or some of the difficult English ones. I’ve now put together my ‘wishlist’. But I’m ...