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Thanks Mike. I will read through that

Two questions please: My GGfather was illegitimate, my GGmother had two boys by the same married man. Both were registered using their father's surname, whilst she maintained her maiden name - she lived only 1km away from the address of the man who fathered the two sons, his wife and their 4 childre...

Mike You were right! I'm still baffled by how it has happened, because initially I drew another blank. Resetting the Home router a Draytek 2860 and reconfiguring it didn't solve it. I must have missed a step or did something wrong, it couldn't have been wiped. The fact that Ancestry worked and FindM...

Don To report back on the procedures outlined in your link. I followed them through. Adaware found a link in the Registry to my Firefox search engine (Ixquick) which I allowed it to delete but otherwise nothing, and since I have been using all the antimalware programs bar one, perhaps that wasn't su...

Mike Thank you for the suggestions. I use Kaspersky Total Security. I used to use Trend Internet Security and before that AVG. Currently I have 580 days left with Kaspersky so I probably wouldn't change. I haven't found any AV that is effective against Malware (as in intrusive advertising). So I sca...

Is this OK here or should it be posted on te FTAnalyzer website? In the space of the last week the Census enquiry utility within FTAnalyzer using my subscription to FindMyPast has stopped working. The Firefox address that FTAnalyzer creates is preceeded by the string "https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/...

Nick
Thank you. I think you summarised by position very well.
Peter

David, Mike I may be unusual because of the long hours I work. But, I purchase hundreds of items over the web during the course of a year and they all have my debit card details, I cannot stop them keeping them. That said I do not give them permission to use my account at will. Certainly in the busi...

Jim I use Banktree 3 (the best alternative to Quicken 2004 which I can no longer run on Windows 10) to manage all my accounts and payments and I do enter recurring charges, so if it is clear to me that my details have been taken and I am agreeing to continue subscribing that's where it goes. It was ...

Just a warning to everyone. With V6 I enrolled in My Heritage, which has been a complete waste of money. Imagine my chagrin this evening to find that without any warning they have deducted £100 from my Debit Card. I have asked for a refund. Frankly, with such a brilliant Program I'm at a loss to kno...

Mervyn WOW! Thank you so much for the BBC and Times link. I had no idea that the Quebec rule was enshrined in Law. The first article made very interesting reading too. It wasn't until my son's marriage in Quebec was mentioned in the office that I realised what a hot potato this is for young women. I...

Lorna, Jim. I thought it interesting to contemplate where we might be in a hundred years. I don't think women will be accepting their husband's surname (but then maybe that's an inherently male perspective). I'm one of four boys with three sons. I worked in the construction industry until about 10 y...

Mike I'm with you on your last point. Double barrel surnames are a pain for others when your alive, though useful in Family History and in my view don't tick the box. I was seeking a fairer way of keeping the tradition of a surname alive. Children survive far greater problems (mostly poor parenting ...

My son has recently married a Quebecois in Canada. There is a tradition there that the women retain their surname on marriage (my son found it difficult swallow though my view was that it made no odds). In my office there are two young women, one 26 and the other 30, marrying in September. The man s...

Hi
I'm married to a second Cousin. Assuming that they already exist in FH you just link to an existing person. If not, enter them as a new individual. There is no special procedure to follow.

Peter

My Great 2x grandmother Sarah Summers (1813 - 1884) was born in Wivenhoe, Essex.  Her father, a Baker died when she was 13.  Later in life in Marylebone she has two boys, both illegitimate but by the same father. Charles Summers Wisdom born June 1844 and William Wisdom born 21 May 1850. In the 1841 ...

I am very grateful to all three, Jane, David and Mike. Jane has directed me to a whole raft of 'Queries' on the Knowledgebase and I spent a couple of hours last night ignoring my initial question and learning how useful they could be.  They certainly add hugely to the value of the software. David, R...

There is probably a simple answer to this, but it has so far eluded me. I have been uploading GEDCOM files (one for my father's ancestors and one for my mother's ancestors) to Ancestry.co.uk. The 'Add Using Query' 'Ancestors' option meets this but I am only creating a GEDCOM of direct Ancestors whil...

Mike makes a significant point in relation to Narrative Reports.  I can see that for the developer this creates a considerable, if not impossible hurdle. Personally, I infrequently use the Narrative Report, and when I do I export it to MS Word and find myself tidying it up anyway.  However I recogni...

Mike Thank you for your thoughts, I am interested to hear from you, because you are the author of several clever plugins.  People will have differing goals in researching family history and mine is to better understand the life influences that impacted on near ancestors (once Census information ceas...

A marriage and certain other facts are shared between individuals by default. I would like the ability to share a fact across selected individuals.  For example: 1. The death of a sibling during childhood 2. The Adoption of a child amongst other siblings 3. The death of a parent during childhood 4. ...