Family Historian User Group

Keith, Had no problems at all installing Ancestral Sources in Windows 10, so this may not the answer, but just for elimination purposes, have you checked that the version of the MS.Net Framework 3.5 you installed and the Ancestral Sources version match, i.e. the .Net Framework Installer and Ancestra...

Every time a user attempts to install a Family Historian Plugin a warning message from the Developer flashes up highlighting the need to ensure the plugin comes from a reputable/trustworthy source and also warning that it is the user's responsibility to verify that source. There is little more that ...

The dates for the other children suggest that these were probably quads rather than a 'batch baptism/christening of children" born at different times; and Christening at Birth was not at all unusual if children were not expected to survive long. I believe that this was sometimes carried out by the m...

Edward,

As Tatewise says SkyDrive and OneDrive are one and the same. See this Microsoft link http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/oned ... o-onedrive for further explanation.

Mervyn

Phil, This is my part of my MacBook Pro Screen with VirtualBox running in the foreground: Screen Shot 2015-11-17 at 19.57.43.png Are you not able to see the Application Menu Bar at the top of your Mac's Screen when you Click on the Virtual Machine Screen? The Menu Bar is context sensitive and the nu...

Phil, There are several Viewing Modes you can use and it's a matter of playing with them to choose which works best for you: 1. With the Windows Virtual Machine running, you can click on the Green Dot at the top left of the application Window. As with all Apple Apps, this takes the Windows applicati...

Phil,

Thanks. Good to know you are making progress.

Mervyn

Peter, I'm afraid I can only respond with a counter-question: "Do you actually need an 'author' under these specific circumstances?" i.e. it's not the same as a third-party individual or organisation (e.g. FreeBMD, Ancestry, FindMyPast etc.) independently transcribing the so-called original indexes,...

Phil, Hope you can follow this. 1. VirtualBox Installation (and setup) Download the following Files from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads (a) VirtualBox 5.0.10 for OS X Hosts (b) VirtualBox 5.0.10 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack Note: Version 5.0.10 was the current release at the time o...

Sorry for the delay responding to this thread, have been away for a few days. Am just downloading the latest update to VirtualBox and when I am sure everything is as it should be, will post a step guide on how I have set up my system including the VirtualBox 'tweaks' necessary to maximise the intera...

Jim, Most of the major Anti-Virus products seem to be getting increasingly aggressive in preventing Operating System changes. It's good in the sense that they are doing what they were designed to do, but problematic because they seem to block changes that the user actually wants to take place, witho...

Happy to offer any assistance required on installing a Virtual Machine using Oracle's VirtualBox software. VirtualBox is totally free to use, apart from any voluntary donations users care to make, as its continuous development is largely underwritten by Oracle's commercial users (Businesses). I know...

From reading a very large quantity of older hand written documents, I would say the witness signature is, most probably Jhon Perrett. The Bride's name has clearly been entered twice as Perrott, but whether either is the 'correct' spelling of the family name is probably debateable without further res...

I believe it's simply showing graphically that the person has two completely separate facts with a photo attachment and the photo therefore appears twice. If they were at the same address, I would suggest one possibility would be to change one of the Residence facts to a date range, 'Bet X and Y', l...

At the end of the day it's down to user choice and deciding what purposes you (or any user) will be doing with the address field: - If you do follow a practice of entering a street name followed by a house number, what's it going to read like if you include the address in narrative reports? - What w...

Akelpad is relatively straightforward text editor and has a Plugin for creating Macros.

http://akelpad.sourceforge.net/en/index.php
http://portableapps.com/apps/developmen ... d_portable

Mervyn

Andy, Don't worry about using the supposedly 'unstable' Development Versions of Wine. It's more that Wine is in perpetual 'Beta' and the new builds are so frequent that the Development Team never gets around to/bothers about releasing a 'stable build'. All of the Wine Front Ends use the Wine Develop...

Andy, For what is worth, I thought I'd test install Ancestral Sources 5 in a Wine Wrapper on Mac OS X (using the latest Wine Build 1.7.51) My previous test results have proved problematic, mainly because installing the Microsoft .Net Frameworks beyond Version 2.0 in Wine has been a consistently diff...

As far as dedicated iPad and iPhone apps go (the main topic of this thread) I presume it's a question of resources and priorities for Calico Pie, i.e skills in developing Apple/Android Apps, design, programming time and the need to purchase Apple Computers to access the software required develop iPa...

It certainly doesn't look like normal behaviour to me; and suspect it might be something outside of FH6.

Just to rule out/in some possibilities: Have you installed any other software recently? Perhaps the Windows 10 Upgrade?

From GENUKI and GRO Sources (for England & Wales): Stillbirth registration was introduced on 1 July 1927 to help protect infant life, provide a valuable source of statistical information and to give parents the opportunity to have their child officially acknowledged. A stillborn child is a child bor...

Mike, I've had a look at the Knowledge Base Page and you've certainly captured the key things users need to do to minimise their chances of experiencing problems when they make the choice to upgrade. From my experience, and through some participation in Microsoft's Windows 10 Community Forum, Window...

I also tend to use Registration District, County as a proxy place of Birth/Death/Marriage until/unless I have a more accurate location. The only 'problems' I've encountered and have to manage are those Registration Districts that cross County Boundaries and a few that aren't 'true' place names. For ...

It seems to be primarily (if not entirely) Windows 7 users who are affected by the changed Folder/File Permissions issue, but only some Windows 7 Users. One cause seems to be having the OneDrive Desktop Application installed on Windows 7 when the Upgrade is carried out. That problem doesn't seem to ...

And if you want something more complex, both IrfanView and XnView both have built in Screen Capture.

Mervyn

[Mike Tate says: see fhugdownloads:contents:irfanview|> Utility ~ IrfanView and use Options > Capture/Screenshot...]