Family Historian User Group

Hi Jane, As i already had Vista running i decided to give it a go while i had a few minutes spare v2.1 installed without any error messages, and opened fine then ran upgrades to v2.3, v3.0 and finally loaded v3.1 upgrade All went fine, but at the end of each 'upgrade' vista suggested the upgrade had...

Thanks Patrick. Was beginning to think it must be something like that but couldn't make out what they said!

Now i'll go and look up what Puerperal fever is.

Many thanks

I have the official release of vista loaded in virtual pc at the moment

I can test loading fh starting with v2.1 if it would be of any help?

'what tangled webs we weave...' Well nosing around i'd found 2 x Tofts who died at 0 years age in the same bmd index quarter. Solomon & David. No sign of maria or anyone with a name similar to the one i can't read. So i decided to order Solomon & Davids birth certificates... And being impatient i or...

JonAxtell said:
Plus the twins could have been registered either under their father's or mother's surnames depending on the view about their 'marriage' in their community.

Thanks Jon, hadn't thought of that!

Will have nose around under the mothers surname

Jane said: Fact sets are not stored in the GEDCOM file. You can already turn them on and off in the Work With Fact Sets,  when hidden they still work, but you can't pick from them. Hi Jane. I think i got my words muddled there. I mean't the attributes/events would still be stored as normal But thin...

This would be very useful. I've loaded the military fact sheet and with people who served in both world wars + others it makes the attribute/event list very messy It would be good to be able to add a fact sheet as an attribute/event e.g. 1914-1918 Great War (Military), (where the date and 'great war...

HilaryBroadbent said: Returning to your earlier quote about the first and second wives being sisters - in 1885 the second marriage would have been a prohibited marriage. This was not changed until the 'Deceased Wife's Sister Marriage Act of 1907'. Not that that stopped one of my ancestors in 1880, ...

ChrisBowyer said: The nice thing about unusual names is of course you don't get too many to search, the downside is they're more often mis-spelt. Especially when ancestry.co.uk transcribed the censuses. Tofts has more than a dozen different spellings. And to make it more confusing some of the missp...

ireneb said: If they didn't have time to register the twins' births would they have been able to register the deaths? You had up to 6 weeks to register a birth. Alternatively they could have been recorded as 'female' plus surname Irene B Not sure on the registration side of things, i'll have to ass...

ChrisBowyer said: That's what it looks like to us too, but (out of curiosity) shouldn't the twins have their own death certificates under these circunstances? I was thinking that as well. But i looked in the full bmd indexes for around this time and can't find either birth or death entries... Stran...

I have a death certificate for the first wife of my gt grandfather who died 21st April 1885 The cause of death shows: Premature Labour 7mo Twins      22 days      9 days Maria 24 hours I think i should read this as she gave birth to the twins and died 22 days later. The first twin died after 9 days ...

Jane said: Just as an aside,  1595 is around the time of the Black Death,  if that was the cause death and burial might well have been very quick. My guess on the same date is that the only information was the burial. Thanks Jane With regard to the black death i would never of even thought of somet...

ChrisBowyer said: I'd certainly record it as a burial and probably ignore the death date. Or ask the informant where it comes from (difficult sometimes, especially in email, without sounding rude). Or better still, look it up yourself in the parish register if you can get to the county archives. Ok...

ChrisBowyer said:
In 1891 she's mis-transcribed as Hannah Core (17), dom. servant, born in Hackney, living in Hornsey.

Purely a co-incidence i'm sure, but did you notice that the family she's a servant with has a surname of Hayton (i.e. very similar to Layton)...

ChrisBowyer said: Seems possible, especially if it's an infant death. But beware, a lot of people record baptism and burial as if they're birth and death dates... it depends where you (or your informant) got the information from. The important thing is to record the source (with a 'suspect' assesme...

Jane said: These are likely to be Julian dates, see glossary:dates:using_the_julian_and_gregorian_calendars Many thanks Jane I understand now! But would the fact that the burial/death dates are the same still be suspect though? or would it be common that long ago to bury someone the same day they d...

Was wondering if anyone could advise me on the best way to record suspect dates in FH please? I've been given some info about a branch of my family but the dates seem very suspect e.g. one person has Died 6th February 1595/96 Burial 6th February 1595/96 Was wondering how should i interpret this and ...

Thanks Chris / Jane

I did come across most of those items but was only really considering them in isolation, and didn't see a possible match/link

However you've given me some things to think about about how they could maybe link together

Will revist the items thanks

ChrisBowyer said: You've got me curious... who was her husband and when did they marry? My guess is the name on her marriage is the adopted name if it was done formally. Where does the triplets story come from? At that time you wouldn't expect adopted children to be able to find out anything about ...

Was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on what i could try next on trying to find the family of my gt grand mother hannah cox please? The only info from the family i have is that she was the only survivor of triplets and was adopted. I don't know if this info is accurate or even if cox was her bir...

ChrisBowyer said:
tonyt said:
No need to rub it in

Sorry, not intended... We've often found that people missing from the indexes seem to have been miraculously added the second or third time we look.

Was only joking! [grin]

Nick Walker said: Further to the comments that Chris has made, research by Michael Whitfield Foster in his book 'A Comedy of Errors' in 1998 where he was given access to the BMD certificates show that there are a very large number of errors and problems with the indexes. The local register office i...

ChrisBowyer said:
P.S.

(not that I have any particular reason to defend Ancestry as compared to any of the other sites, but to be fair...) Q3 1962 LAYTON, Hannah, 88, Wood Green 5f/395 is certainly there and correctly indexed

No need to rub it in [wink]

RalfofAmber said: As a newcomer this matches my experience and makes me wonder about costs - I just subscribed to ancestry but still find that findmypast is more accurate where it has data. How dear is this all going to end up being! Add in the 1901 census tokens... That's the odd thing, because i ...