Family Historian User Group

After much playing around I have found something that may give what you are looking for.  The template you need is Marr: %INDI.~SPOU[1+]>NAME:FULL%, %INDI.~SPOU[1+]>FAMS>MARR.DATE:COMPACT% in %INDI.~SPOU[1+]>FAMS>MARR.PLAC:TIDY% The easiest way to achieve this is to copy one of the existing BMD sche...

This is the same standard reply I had from them a few years ago. The key point is about affecting the greatest number of users. It may be worth pointing out to them this is not a single image missing but a whole district so affects many people. Then all you can do is check for it every few months an...

Although I have had some problems I have over 250 census images, almost all from Ancestry, so I do think it is worth an annual subscription for at least one year. With seven census databases each with 30 to 40 million entries, it is impossible not to get some errors. We can help by reporting missing...

Some time ago I found a whole sub district missing on Ancestry. I submitted an error report and kept hassling them. At one point they replied and said the speed things get fixed depends on how many people it affects, as I was the only one complaining it was low priority. I pointed out as a whole sub...

jmurphy said: In this case, I don't think that's true, but that's an interesting suggestion!  (I suspect in this case, it's a small village, so the child's father was probably something 'everyone knew'.) Jan I did meant it slightly tongue in cheek, but I hope you guessed that.  Small villages can b...

jmurphy said:
On one census return in my collection, the enumerator has written 'illegitimate child' in the occupation field.

Maybe he was the father...

One copyright that family historians tend to ignore is that on BMD certificates. I have yet to come across a family historian who doesn't copy them to other family members. If there are any out there who just pass on the GRO reference then you are doing it correctly, however I think the vast majorit...

I see no reason why FH can't be applied to horses or to other pedigree animals like dogs.  It doesn't seem to complain with parents being only four years older than the child.  I am not sure on the limits of numbers of offspring and spouses.  I thought I had seen them in the manual, help or FH websi...

If you are having problems, I recommend you have a look at the manual.  It is written as a tutorial and takes you through the steps to build up your family using a fictional example.  There are tutorial data files that can be loaded which show how it should look and allow you to jump in at specific ...

If you have a child linked to two sets of parents, this can easily be undone from the menu.  Select the child, go to the Edit menu, hover over Unlink From and another box will appear giving you the choice of Parents... or Spouse...  Click on Parents and it will give you the choice of which set of pa...

I agree with Chris, I prefer Ancestry's approach. I have submitted loads of corrections to Ancestry and as a result I have been contacted by two family members and two unrelated people who were looking at others I corrected who were living in the same place as my family (including the wonderfully na...

Nick Walker said: Getting back to original point that was made. Does anyone think Gedcom Census should have the option to record additional birth events? I've always steered clear of this as it is likely to cause confusion for others who see my data if individuals have more than 1 birth recorded bu...

I also use multiple birth events. If you have someone on three censuses they can easily have three different calculated birth years and sometimes different places as well (I regularly find this with locations in the east end of London). If I don't have their birth certificate I have no way of knowin...

I first discovered 'late' in this context used on the second marriage certificate for one of my great great grandmothers. She is described as Sarah late Wagstaff, formerly Day. I had no idea what this meant when I first met it, but by finding her first marriage certificate and her birth certificate,...

Richard Sorry, I only just got back to this.  I tried what John said and changing d) and e) to 0.1 gives me exactly the same gap as you get.  In fact just changing e) to 0.1 will create it. I can only assume there is some strange relationship between different dimensions here.  I cannot get the same...

I tried the same family structure but don't get the same spacing. http://www.fhug.org.uk/images/uploads/3children.JPG One way I can get a gap like you do is to add a child to 1 and s1, but then you can see that child.  The other is to do a Fixed Point move using either 2 or 2's spouse as the fixed p...

sihicks said: I've tried the 'everyone' option, but I don't like the swoopy lines it creates. If you don't like the connecting ribbons (swoopy lines) go into Diagram Options and click on the Options... button to the right of Check for duplicates.  This opens the Duplicate Options Dialogue where you...

JonAxtell said: So what is the reason why when you want to add the text to a citation you have to first select 'Data' which opens up the little tree to allow you to add the 'Text from Source'. The 'Data' bit is purely Gedcom and confuses people since it doesn't help in any way to understand the cit...

I think this is the Wish List item called 'Graphical Relationship Calculator'.

I don't know why, but in the manual, on page 101 under Box Moves are Outwards Only , it says: If your diagram has top-down orientation, you can only drag a descendant box downwards (or back); and you can drag an ancestor box upwards (or back). However on page 102 it says Bar Moves are Outwards and S...

Although I have one 2xg grandfather who I am fairly convinced was a bigamist, I have another where I am less certain. In the 1891 he is married to my 2xg grandmother, but in the 1901 he is married to another woman (who was living in the same building as my ancestors in both 1881 and 1891). On his se...

If anyone finds incorrect transcriptions on Ancestry please make sure you report them using the transcription error links. Ancestry will never check the original transcriptions again so it is only through feedback from family historians that the entries will get corrected. Even after you submit a co...

tonyt said: I guess the following: '8. Government policy is not to authorise the copying of completed certificates except in the following circumstances:' 'd) within works of genealogical research undertaken by or on behalf of the family concerned where the work in question will be given limited di...

I like this suggestion, but what if you were adding the mother of an illegitimate child where the child was given the mother's surname. If you are auto adding a parent's surname it may be better to use the child's surname for the first added parent of either sex. This way if the child was legitimate...

If you get your parents' marriage certificate as suggested by pwe, you could then sign up for a free two week trial subscription to ancestry.co.uk, which will hopefully allow you to find your two grandfathers on the 1901 census and with reasonable luck you should be able to trace them back through e...