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Interesting article in The Times today. In the 1970's and 80's a man "raped, murdered and abducted his way across California" and was never caught. Last year investigators took a new look at the crimes and, as part of this, uploaded the suspects DNA to a genealogy database. There they identified a n...

Those are the two things I always do!. Best wait, as I'm sure members more knowledgable than I will respond!.

When you ran the installation program, did you use the option "Run as administrator"?

Lorna mentioned earlier in respect of the GRO ".....Their birth index includes mother's maiden name (which is not included prior to 1911 in other indexes)....". I have noticed an increasing number of the FMP pre-1911 Birth records (GRO transcripts) also have the Mothers Maiden name in them - this se...

I would respectfully suggest that this was not a case of correcting the database but updating it!. Whichever, the TNA website states "....Findmypast.co.uk subscribers can request a check of the closed records free of charge and if successful, the record will be made available via the online service....

The FMP website indicates "*British, Irish, US and World Newspapers, the PERiodical Source Index and UK Electoral Registers & Companies House Directors 2002-2018 are not included in this free access promotion"

Perhaps also worth noting Mike is that System Restore is, for some oddball reason, disabled on new installs of Windows 10 (certainly on my Win 10 Pro 64 Bit version), and although I regularly turn it back on, it gets disabled again when the "major" semi-annual updates occur!

Have to say, I do reuse some queries and have them named accordingly (eg "Individuals with Fact =" and "Family with Fact =") so that I can go in and modify them to meet a current need. This came about because, as Evelyn says, you end with a very long list of Custom Queries if you save every one, and...

I've looked back through some of the old forum posts and have found reference to something in the KB which indicates that rejecting hints using the Reject button does not result in these hints going in to your Reject list but instead they just "disappear". It's a pain, but perhaps I'll have to stop ...

Just wondering if anybody else has encountered the issue I have found this morning. In essence, the FMP Hints screen offered eight records - a number of these were quite obviously not "good" links (Death record dated before persons Birth, etc), so I hit the Reject button without even taking the Revi...

I'd suggest check the Census Template Editor for 1861 in AS. If Column Type is set to Generic and the tick box for "Record even if ...." is ticked then you might have the answer.

Can't say that I have had any problems with "missing" data in the auto text, although it's always been indicated that the auto-text results will frequently need some manual work before saving. What pieces are missing?

As Mike indicated, there are no spaces for the Register Date and Registrar. The latter could be input using the Associated Individuals (Witnesses) processing and both can be manually added (in AS) to the Auto-Text output. As far as as which is the best template for non-Scottish Marriages, it really ...

Mike - I have the Scotland templates available on my AS so they must have come as defaults as I would not have downloaded them separately.

Phil - I also use 1&1 for my website (generated via GedSite) and, originally, FileZilla for FTP but the latter also started causing me problems last last year so I switched to CyberDuck. Found this to actually be much faster than FileZilla and very easy to setup.

AS is primarily for capture of Census data plus Births, Marriages, Deaths and Burials. Depending on which options you set in the AS configuration (and, in some instances, the answers you give to prompts when data is being saved), some additional Facts can optionally be created in FH - e.g. related B...

The Installation Archive is very sound advice. I record the key / validation code, etc., for every piece of software that provides it, in a folder in my "Documents" folder and have this included in all my backup routines.

Actually, with Continuous Payment Authorities companies don't even have to tell you if the amount and / or payment date change!. Most (UK) based companies that I have experience with (very few actually, as I am not a great fan of this type of payment!) do send me an email in advance of the payment b...

I think it largely comes down to personal choice and what "works" for you. In my case, I mostly use Method 1 - I record the Source Title as (say), "Smith, Rosie - 1845 Baptism record" and would record the name of the Parish registers as the Repository , assuming I had not found the parish registry o...

Sorry Mike - funerals, family illnesses and preparations for a drive to Greece (completed today!) have rather got in the way of things. Yes, the last check I did I found that the Sort Dates applied using the latest plugin did give a better result (on the examples I raised here). Not perfect, but giv...

Certainly my experiences to date are that Widows have retained their married Surname - this includes records on my tree back to the 1851 UK Census. The married surname has also been used when the widow has re-married (at least, that is my experience with GRO records). In the case of Divorces though,...

Thanks Mike - I'm away visiting children / grandchildren at the moment but will have a look as soon as I get home next week.

I link the Media to the Source record and then cite that source record from each of the Individual records. The Source record can also contain other "common" data (eg the Census reference) and negate the need to include that on each of the Individual records

Per the Help: ".... Merge Use this button to merge 2 or more data items. This action works with multiple selection (press-and-hold the Ctrl key while clicking, to select an item without unselecting previously selected items). Select all of the data items you wish to merge and click on Merge. You wil...

I keep Church names, etc,., in the Address field and the town, etc., in the Place field. Where there has been a change of name, or where I have identified that a church or similar has been known by two names then I include both in a single Address field, e.g. " the Parish Church (aka St. Andrew with...