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This is prompted by the 16298|Customize Property Box puzzle posting. I know we are talking about the Electoral Roll or Registry. Those of 1939 are really a National Registry listing people due to the war. The addresses shown are not very accurate. My parents are listed as living in Hull when they ha...

Just one question

When you have OneDrive listed on the File Explorer does that take up space on the computer hard drive or is it 100% in the Cloud?

I always save the census image in a census folder of the year.

As others have details the title of the image I add at theend the name of the person and the year he was born

Like an example above RG13-0603_Fo-52_Page-10 Joe Bloggs 1860

Victor

I have something similar. I name the child surname as the mother's name at the time of birth and list these separately with no father. My grandmother had two children a few years after my grandfather died. Their birth certificates do not list the father so I presume they both had different fathers. ...

I have been using FH since it was first released. I also have FTM and use that to find other information. From time to time I copy my tree from FH to FTM. FH is always the primary tree The usefulness of FTM is that it provides links to other peoples trees and lots of other information like census, a...

I have just tried to upgrade again for the umpthteen time
Happy to say it worked this time

Victor

Thanks for your reply Mike

I have already done what you have suggested including reboot and got the same result

I will try it again later

Victor

I have tried a number of times to upgrade to the latest version. When doing so I get a message saying it will close FH. That is fine but eventually I get another message saying it is still open. I know it is closed but couldn't go any further so had to cancel the upgrade. With the link shown on this...

I wouldn't worry too much about this. What is far more important is that your tree is on FH I have my tree on Ancestry but only use it there for the leaf to connect with other information that is available on Ancestry. I never copy any tree from Ancestry to FH. What is on FH is the true accurate tre...

Have a look at English Heritage web site. They have a lot of old historic photos of the whole country and there might be one of the building you are looking for.

Victor

Hope I am not too late on making a comment on the census images When I save the image I put in the census reference with, at the end, the head of household's name So if there are two households on the same page I put the head of each household at the end of the census reference. It does mean having ...

If I don't know the maiden name of the wife I put her husbands name in brackets e.g. (Smith) When I do find the maiden name I change this to her correct name. One must also bear in mind the wife could be having another marriage so if you see her name it could be her previous husbands name. Always be...

There is a group on Facebook called Genealogisk forum
It is all about Danish genealogy
I have made many contacts with Danes regarding my brother in laws ancestors

Victor

Don't forget Yorkshire. It is divided into three Ridings, North, South, East plus York.
There are similar place names in more than one Riding. e.g there is Hessle in both East and West Riding. Scalby in both East and North Riding.

Victor

I don't do backup everytime. Only once in awhile. Whatever changes I make to FH is 'saved'. When I do a backup I delete the previous backup. If you keep previous backups it will reduce the storage space on your PC or wherever you back them up. So do delete old back ups when ever you can. Maybe keep ...

My grandfather was illegitimate born in 1862. He was registered under his mother's name, George Briggs, and also baptised that way. His father is not known. His mother married Charles Markham in 1865. After that he was known as George Markham. I have not listed him as Charles's child but have used t...

Just a thought. How about asking OS Maps if they have date to include Lat and Long in the map references or at least provide a link. I never use Post codes I just leave them for the postal services. These days if you post a letter from a place it doesn't always get that place postmark. e.g. letters ...

Thanks Anne Dade was the name I was trying to recall. As you say there are many other parishes giving these birth dates. It was all down the the clergy writing them down but these are unofficial. Who cares if they were they are a good source of information. That was why the Archbishop wanted to make...

If I see a so called birth date before 1837 I treat that as a Christening date unless it states 'birth' or 'born' From memory some parish councils (in Yorkshire) added the birth date in the margins of those Christening dates. There is a name for this. I will have to give a thought of what it was cal...

Years ago I bought a netbook. This had no DVD drive but I bought an external DVD drive which I could attach to the netbook. Such a drive may still be available. If so that could solve your problem. Thanks for the reminder. I am now wondering where my external DVD drive is! I still have the netbook b...

I think some keyboards have what they call touch sensitive. This will be listed in the settings

Victor

If the record is small enough you can use 'snatchMyScreen' and mark out what you want to copy Once you have done that go to the focus window where you have added the details on FH then prompt the fact tab and then open the media ikon which will open a menu. At the top is says 'add media for fact' op...

The ref details Mike mentioned only applies to those from the GRO BMD's BMD's from local registry offices have a different reference number. These references are based on the location where the event took place and are the original certificates before they are sent to the GRO and are different. Victor

I add the names directly to the photograph. I do this to all my family photos and also add the link as shown by tatewise.

Victor

I have learned that when you view 'large ikons' in the files it takes up space on your hard drive. So when you have finished looking at the ikons change that page to 'list' and the space is reduced. Do this to all the pages when you are not viewing images. Only when you get to a particular file chan...