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AdrianBruce wrote: Possibly evacuees - my great-aunt and -uncle have one open entry for a child and one redaction bar - I think my Mum mentioned that her aunt had evacuees from Liverpool but there's no way to check that now... That thought had crossed my mind as their ages must be 22 or less. Howev...

Slightly off topic but I guess we all have frustrations with the redacted entries. My parents are listed at the address I was born with three other entries that are redacted and I would love to know who they are. Both my brother and myself were born later and as far as I know there are no other sibl...

From my perspective the KB reads well but perhaps I have been too close to the subject - it would help if someone new to recording Electoral Register entries could comment. The British Library fact sheet is the rather long one that was quoted earlier in this thread https://www.bl.uk/voices-of-scienc...

Very strange - I have not amended anything since producing the last XML file but a fresh export is now attached which I hope has the correct data.

Mike I have produced four templates for the Electoral Register - I prefer that name as that is how the source documents are titled in most cases - see the attachment. To differentiate the templates I have used the first year the form of the Register changed. The qualifying date is also the date for ...

The ownership of a property is a bit of a red herring. Prior to 1918 and in certain circumstances property ownership did qualify for the franchise but tenants also had the right to vote if they paid a certain level of rent. Our ancestors did make things easier for us as those earlier Registers give ...

A senior moment, Mike - I had to use the Census Template to make the Electoral Roll Template and when saving typed the wrong file name. I know that there was a suggestion not to define the date but I felt that this could lead to confusion. Unfortunately the Register Codes changed over time so there ...

Mike, I have attached my template for the UK 1920 Census which you will see is labelled "Autumn". To be awkward there is also a 1920 Spring Register dated 15th May which means I need a second template! So far I have been unable to find a table of dates of Electoral Registers online so I went to the ...

I agree that a Knowledge Base item on Electoral Rolls would be good - that's where I first looked for advice. By not setting the Recording option for the Note field, its value will be the Electoral Register Code( eg O, HO, NM etc.) if you are using the normal practice of recording what is actually o...

Many thanks Mike for staying patiently with me. Using the AS Backup/Restore option does make life a lot easier. I have now made all the necessary changes to give me a satisfactory result and I have learnt a few things on the way! And you were right, I did not have the correct Generic definition and ...

Thought that I would give the AS Template a try. Unless I have missed something there appears to be a few changes that are needed to be made to the settings. The change to use Residence facts instead of Census facts is quite straight forward and manageable. However you then need to change the Source...

Sorry Mike - I think that I must have misunderstood the following. One problem that Nick faces with AS is there is no standard GEDCOM fact for events such Electoral Rolls. So, either AS must stipulate a specific Custom Event or introduce a dialogue to allow the user to specify their Custom Event. Ha...

Mike - I have been playing with the Add Source From Template Plugin and can see where this could help with consistency. I am not so sure how the Clone Any Record would work when entering Electoral Roll details, for example. Neither have a help file and there is no additional information in the KB un...

Thanks Mike - I now realise that I should have looked in the Forum as well :oops: As you say, a new template would be wonderful but I can think of other facts where a basic template would be helpful such as Probate where the image of the page from the Calendar of Wills could be included. To my simpl...

With Find My Past having just released the Electoral Rolls for 1920 covering a number of counties, I was wondering whether I could use Ancestral Sources to record the details and images. As they are very similar to a Census, they have all qualifying members of the household listed under one address,...

As Mike (Tatewise) usually likes a challenge, can the Ordnance Survey software at https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/busine ... opers.html be incorporated into a Plugin?

Sounds as if it might be a cookies issue. If you go to Settings in Chrome and then to Advanced - Privacy and Security then click Clear Browsing History - this opens a modal window with 3 options under the Basic tab. The second option - Cookies and other site data - should be not be ticked. Does that...

However if, like me, you live far away from access to your ancestors' records you will start to see that an annual subscription to one or more of the big websites is good value for money. One of the little used resources nowadays are the LDS Family History Centres which I used quite a lot for those...

Mike - I think that an extra closing bracket has crept into the following expression in the KB {=CombineText("",%FACT.DATE:YEAR%,TextIf(%FACT.DATE% = DateAt(1939,9,29)," Register"," Census"),"Census"))} {place} I think that it should be {=CombineText("",%FACT.DATE:YEAR%,TextIf(%FACT.DATE% = DateAt(1...

It's quite a while since I came to FH from TMG and at that time there was no way of bringing Tasks across. At the time I decided to print them out with a view to reviewing them and then use the To Do List as suggested by Mike. It was a good intention but somehow I never got round to it and it is sti...

can someone tell me how I should look for those ALLEN residents who were, in 1851, residents of the whole Parish of Ashover? Not being a user of Ancestry I am not sure if you could do the same as in Find My Past, although I'd be surprised if you couldn't. Rather than rely on searching via the index...

You have come across, in my opinion, the biggest failing of all the website base programmes such as those offered by Ancestry, FindMyPast and FamilySearch. Just to add to Colin's comment, there is of course a good commercial reason for making it difficult to transfer your tree and all the images. T...

To quote from the GRO website https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/Login.asp "General Register Office (GRO) - PDF Extended Pilot The GRO is piloting a service from 12 October 2017 to provide portable document format (PDF) copies of digitised historical birth and death records. The pilot w...

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