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Mike, I am immensely grateful for your kind assistance. You are such an invaluable help. The users of FH are privileged to have your continued and knowledgeable contributions on the Forum. In the course of my research over the last few days, I have indeed reviewed the Census years you mention, but I...

First of all let me say that I am doing this for a friend, who is a descendent of the parties concerned. However, it's a bit of a complex situation and I would like to have some guidance as to how the details should be entered, whether on Ancestry, where I have been building the Tree or on my own pe...

Hi Anne & gwilym'smum Truth to tell, the County Record Office is only seven miles away, in Matlock, so in one sense it would be relatively easy to visit there. However, my experience of microfiche at Matlock is that it very much depends on whether you get a good mf-reader or not. Time-wise, I imagin...

Hi, Thank you again for your valuable contribution! You are indeed a megastar! The total figure of 18 agrees with mine for those ALLEN's living in Ashover and its outlying hamlets, but some names were duplicated by being part of the same household, but shown separately in Ancestry's list. The area t...

Hello again, In trying to capture Census data, maybe I'm going about the task in the wrong way. Trying to pin down a particular parish is taking me much longer, even for a reasonably sized rural parish, than I would have expected. I have gone through the 1841 Census, the 1851 Census, and now am tryi...

Thanks Anne. Wise words I'm sure.

Regards,

Alan

First of all, thank you all for your help. Your collective advice has made things much clearer for me. I now know the best way to approach future Census searches, especially if I want to focus in on particular parishes that may have been part of different Registration Districts. Once again, your kin...

Hi, Here is another comment regarding how Ancestry have classified a section of the 1851 Census. I have have been trying to capture the references to the name ALLEN in the 1851 Census for the Parish of Ashover, in Derbyshire. As well as Ashover village, the Census recorded various outlying hamlets a...

Hi, Can someone have a look at the attached example and comment on whether they think Ancestry might have identified this section of the Ashover 1841 Census incorrectly? The point of interest for me is on the right-hand page, so I have categorised it as: HO107 - Piece 193 - Book 6 - Folio 41 - Page ...

Dear Helen, Mike, Lorna, Adrian & David, Many, many thanks for your invaluable advice. I am sure that I will still make mistakes, but your collective wisdom has made it much, much, clearer as to what I need to do. Your own examples and suggestions have been immensely useful, and the thing that I nee...

Now here's the thing, the marriage of my 2x Great Grandfather & Great Grandmother, Joseph Allen & Sarah Hunt took place in Alfreton, Derbyshire on the 24th September 1837 (the 3rd Qtr). Alfreton was a sub-district of Belper until 1968. FreeBMD has the event taking place in the District of Belper, wh...

.....You say you are using Firefox , so presumably you have set Location to Display Matches to External Web Browser rather than internal Web Search Window . Just a further comment... As I inferred in my previous comment I did change the setting in 'Location to Display Matches to External Web Browse...

Many thanks tatewise for your words of wisdom. I should have thought of looking there first I guess, but it didn't occur to me. I looked in the Knowledge Base as you suggested, then found the setting in FH, and lo and verily behold when I next tried a hint everything worked fine, no more error messa...

I am using Firefox v56.0 on a Windows 10 OS. I will try using Google Chrome and report back whether that is any different.

Thanks for the quick response.

Alan

Dear All, Firstly, I am trying to take advantage of the Hints that are now available in FH. The first time that I click on any particular Find My Past Hint I always seem to get the message: "Oops, something went wrong - please try again later" When I refresh the link it works, and I am then offered ...

Hi, Let me set the scenario. I have a Family Tree built using Ancestry, I also have FH which contains many of the names that appear on the Ancestry Tree. However, there is one particular family line that is primarily contained in the FH version of my Tree. I accept that I have likely caused myself a...

Gentlemen, What can I say - I am so grateful for all your very detailed and thoughtful responses. Whilst further contributions are always welcome, you have, between you, already given me so much to think about. I will need to go through each note very carefully, trying to assess which method will wo...

Hi, I am in the initial stages of using Family Historian after importing a Gedcom from Ancestry. That being the case most of the sources link back to Ancestry, except for a few for which I have designated the Source as being various Parish Registers. If there is such a thing I would like to follow '...

Hi Jane, Thanks for the quick reply. As suggested I validated the imported GEDCOM and everything was fine, with no errors. I then changed the printer to the FH Pdf printer as recommended. I am still a bit confused as the error message I reported in my first post seems to be somewhat intermittent. I ...

Hi, I am a new user to Family Historian, having downloaded V5 about a week ago. I brought in a GEDCOM from Ancestry UK and when when I run Ancestor by Generation reports without adding any further info there seems to be no issue, I can generate the report with no problems. However, if I update a par...