Family Historian User Group

I've found ancestry hints quite useful, sometimes highlighting sources I either hadn't known about or had previously not bothered to look at. On the other hand, they do offer some outrageous hints too, for example hints for someone for before they were born or after they had died! I don't think we s...

I've just been looking at this site: http://www.roadrash.no/highslide-js-sample-pages/ . It contains many more samples of the use of highslide. Sadly, it also states: There’s no longer active support for Highslide JS, but you can follow the steps in the support section to get answers to your questio...

I'm using MS Expression Web 4 as my main editor for HTML (it's free), but I've got Notepad++, although I haven't checked out all the features yet. It looks promising: there's only 4000+ families and 13500+ individuals to edit :) (although there's not images for everyone, obviously). The tip about cr...

If a mother re-marries, her new husband is not automatically the adopted father of children from her first marriage unless her new husband legally adopts them (as I know to my cost). The children from the first marriage may use the surname of the second husband, and might even formally "adopt" this ...

The page http://www.dolem.com/lytebox as referenced in FH’s Help/About does not exist any more. There is a new site, http://www.resoo.org/www/javascript/Lytebox/Lytebox%20-%20Home.html but even that has out of date links for configuration information, helpful if like me you're a bit of an HTML novic...

Having used the Associated person field to enter details of witnesses at marriages, baptisms, etc., I must admit that I hadn't spotted the Minister entry. This is probably as I always entered the Minister's details on the field labelled, appropriately, Minister. As this is a text field, I also enter...

I've had subsriptions to both Ancestry and FMP now for a long time. As has already been mentioned, each has datasets and images that the other does not and for that reason I continue to subscribe to both. The different search facilities offered by each are often useful, allowing information to be fo...

I'm not sure if this has been covered before, but from 1891 onwards, Welsh census forms also had Language Spoken as an entry. Has anyone altered the templates for these censuses to include this field? I edit the auto text manually at the moment, but with research progressing on a Welsh family branch...

the minister is (in the vast majority of cases) almost certainly not a relevant person to the family history True, but I have come across a few in my tree. It would be useful if this could be accommodated in AS in a similar manner to witnesses, etc. Fortunately, as Mike explains, there are other al...

Thanks Mike.

I have : Name: Sandra P Cullis Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1961 Registration district: Merthyr Tydfil Inferred County: Glamorganshire Spouse: Jack S Spracklen Volume Number: 8b Page Number: 966 then Name: Sandra P Spracklen Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1970 Registration district: Merthyr ...

Thanks Mike, I've found the templates now - I didn't think to look at the witness roles. Mea Culpa :roll: Whilst most probate calendar entries will say where probate took place, older entries simply say Principal Registry without any further detail, hence the seemingly odd place. I'm aware that the ...

Can't seem to find this ... For example, on a Witnesses for Probate, the sentence is generated from: {individual} was a {role name} at {label} of {principal} {date} {place} delivering: He was a Proved at Probate of A.N. Other on 16 March 1768 in Principal Registry. I'd like to get the sentence to re...

I'd like to second FTAnalyzer. It does have its issues (e.g. 1939 census dates) but does an awful lot of checking in one pass of a file. I use it quite regularly after long sessions to make sure I've not made any less obvious errors.

Three separate events make a narrative report very repetitive to read Indeed, but unless it becomes possible to associate multiple dates with an event, I prefer to have each separate calling of Banns as as separate event, particularly as the Banns might have been read by different people. This latt...

My word! Little did I think when I posted my original message I would provoke such a response. Apologies for not responding sooner, but sometimes family gets in the way of family history :) Two of the reasons for posting my request have already been covered with the images earlier in the thread, tha...

Is there any possibility of allowing the dates for the publication of banns to be included in the Marriage entry? I am coming increasinly across details of banns with more and more PRs coming online and it would be useful to be able to include these at the same time as recording the marriage.

The problem is not restricted to emigration/immigration, but also applies to passenger lists, typically involving travel by sea, where the date and port of departure and date and port of arrival are to be documented as a single event. I've created a Passenger List event that uses a custom sentence t...

Thanks Mike. Easy when you know how

I've been having a go at this now for another event, appearing on a Crew List. Whilst I can get the sentences contructed into something that resembles plain English, the narrative report option then follows the sentence template with the contents of the note: George was listed on the Crew List for t...

I am always running FH and AS together. If you make a change to your project using AS and switch to FH, FH will say the file has changed and ask if you want to reload it. The answer is yes. If you make changes to your project in FH and save those changes, or if you have autosave set on and it has ju...

I don't think it is totally safe to assume that a married woman adopts her husband's name after marriage. I know of one case where the exact opposite occurred, the husband adopting his wife's maiden name as his surname. I am also aware of cases where a compound surname, consisting of the woman's mai...

"fniger trouble" = digital dyslexia

Thanks Jane, I'll try and remember that. I had thought that the Churching event was almost a one-off, but after hours spent trawling through the register page by page I've found quite a few, hence my question here. Fortunately, Mike has pointed me in the right direction to create a custom fact that ...

Thank you again Mike, I've now managed to modfy the Churched template to get it to display just as I need in my narrative reports. Thanks too for the reminder - I seem to recall the advice to look at the Travel fact set, and indeed I do have it on my PC. However, I found the events it provided did n...