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I suspect you've added the entries to a copy of your file rather than the one you are looking at in Family Historian. You can check the path to the file you are using in Family Historian by looking under the File menu at File Statistics and noting the file path. Now have a look at your Gedcom Census...

Yes I thought of that, but of course if there were a number of people in the entry, some of whom were recorded with exact ages then those with ages divisible by 5 could be considered to be exact ages too!

I'll add it to the 'to do list'. I think it would need to be an option for each birth though as I find a surprising number of 1841 census entries have a non-rounded age for those over 15 too.

Cheers

Nick

No they shouldn't have been listed in the UK Census if they were abroad at the time.

If you can find the service records of your grandfather there is a good chance that you will be able to see where he was every quarter of each year that he was in service and lots more besides.

Nick

Unfortunately it would require a major rewrite of large parts of Gedcom Census to incorporate the batch idea. Gedcom Census doesn't load in the whole Gedcom File into a data-structure then make changes to that, instead it just finds the relevant parts of the file and edits them. Therefore, it isn't ...

Please check under the Gedcom Census Options the Folder where backups are set to be saved. If there are any permissions issues with this folder, or disk space is running out then this could cause the problem. Try creating a folder in your My Documents (e.g. 'GC Backups') and select this folder as yo...

Hi Wini To add to Jane's reply, when you enter the census details only select the people that are there. There might also be people in the household, e.g. servants or visitors, who don't appear in your tree so you can use the Source Text box to record them. Do make sure you read through the help pag...

Just to clarify for anyone else reading this who might be concerned, the issue reported by wini isn't an error with Gedcom Census, it is just a problem that wini is having downloading the file. The original issue reported by 'gladtobegrey' wasn't an error either, it was just a warning that Gedcom Ce...

This has been discussed on the Family Historian mailing list in the past so these might help: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/family-historian-users/2004-07/1089661492 http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/family-historian-users/2003-08/1061982413 http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/family-hist...

Another possibility is that you have opened a different file in Gedcom Census than the one you are using in Family Historian. In Family Historian select 'File Statistics' from the File menu. Make a note of the File Name. Now back in Gedcom Census click on the File menu and 'Open another GEDCOM famil...

Are you sure you saved the file with the new individuals in (in Family Historian) before opening it in Gedcom Census?

No I don't think it will be a problem, Gedcom Census installs the latest version of that file. I also don't think it would be a problem if you clicked ignore.

Nick

This is the latest version of the free utility designed to be used with Family Historian, but not officially endorsed by Calico Pie Software. Gedcom Census was described in a review in the May 2006 edition of Your Family Tree magazine (http://www.yourfamilytreemag.co.uk) as 'a useful add on that eve...

List of changes: In Windows Vista, Gedcom Census didn't always spot when the GEDCOM file has been saved in Family Historian and so didn't reload the file. This has now been fixed. The help file has been updated to work with HTML Help so that it can be used in Windows Vista. On the census flag form, ...

Ssshhh, don't tell anyone but a new version of Gedcom Census (5.4) has sneaked its way onto the Downloads->GEDCOM section of this website. Perhaps you'll give it a go and make sure it works OK before I publicise it more widely?

Mum's the word [wink]

Nick

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It is hard to judge exactly the resources that Gedcom Census requires as it will depend on size of your GEDCOM file, etc. but image files can be big and if you have several programs open at the same time with large images displayed and you have an elderly machine with very little memory then you may...

When you are viewing the Report click on the 'Options' button. On the Main tab of the Report Options screen that appears click on the 'Edit List' button under the section for Individual Events/Attributes. This lets you select the various events you wish to see in the report. Take the census event ou...

As briardsnz says the trick is to remember to save in Family Historian before switchng to Gedcom Census. If you ever forget then there is a way to hopefully avoid any data loss ... If you look in Family Historian Tools menu and choose Preferences, then under the File Load/Save tab you can enable Aut...

Hi Richard Its the bit about the choosing individuals that I don't understand. When I read your message yesterday I had a play and found that once all the boxes at the top left had been filled in and the title changed, it didn't matter who I selected from either the 'All individuals' or the relative...

Under Tools->Options->Recording Method 1 you can change the format of the Title to, for example, not include the Year or to use the Date instead. I'm not aware that the title gets changed when you select people from the 'All Individuals' list and haven't been able to reproduce this? The way I use Ge...

Hi Lindsey

No I realised you weren't reporting an error, but just wanted to check GC was behaving as I hoped it would.

Thanks for the info

Nick

IzzardResearcher said: I've downloaded quite a few census images from ScotlandsPeople and find I can't view them in Gedcom Census; I get the message 'Sorry but this type of image format cannot be previewed in Gedcom Census. Click here to open this in the default viewer for this file type'. When you...

Just to expand on RalfofAmber's comment. Program Files still exists in Vista and is still where Family Historian is installed. However there is a also now a folder ProgramData which I believe is what used to be Documents and SettingsAll UsersAppdata . This is where Family Historian saves things such...

Gedcom Census certainly can open mdi files and others such as PDF as I've just tried it. When you link these files, Gedcom Census will show a warning where it normally previews the image saying 'Sorry but this type of image format cannot be previewed in Gedcom Census. Click here to open this in the ...

Polly is a nickname for Mary. Peggy (which is similar sounding and might be what you are thinking of?) is a nickname for Margaret. A quick search found this page which looks useful:

A Brief Discussion of Nicknames and Diminutives