Family Historian User Group

Aye Jan, Whilst I am unable to answer your query, welcome and I am sure Mike (Tatewise) will be able to assist you, as will others. You should also note that they may move your message to the 'General Use' forum rather than in this 'Research' forum, as that appears more appropriate to you query. My ...

Aye Tony, Appears to be very comprehensive, but written in a style that personally induces 'brain fog'! See my other posts on loosing the way with using FH! However, if you can cope with, or have, a brain wired for these things, it is very handy to have the written page, rather than flicking between...

Aye Ann, I had similar thoughts, about my research and also when entering the results of my Mother's notes and research (all paper) into FH. As Mike suggests, I use "The Source Citation Assessment field". I also use Jane's suggested option of " In some cases I use a possible parents fact with the Pa...

tatewise wrote:The first problem is with Publish > Books > New button.
Enter a Name for New Book then press Create and NOTHING happens!

Can anyone else reproduce those symptoms?

Works fine for me Mike. I haven't tried the second "problem", so cannot comment.

My regards, Bill

Aye dilgerburton, You may have seen my posts elsewhere on this forum and the AS forum, please stick with entering you data into FH and you will find that practise makes better. ;) I have been researching since the mid 1990's, using FH since 2002 and just using it to link people and families, to illu...

Aye Lorna and Mike, Thank you both for your continued support and advice. Having used FH badly since ~2000 to hold basic data on 600+ individuals and to draw outline family trees; now with a mountain of paper (inhereted from family), photographs, newspaper cuttings, digital data and grey matter data...

Thank you Mike for your further advice and to everybody else who has chipped in their pennysworth. After my last night/early this morning session, I went to ground today and have only just turned on the 'box'! Having been for 2 long walks in the winter sunshine, frost and cold air. I have been havin...

Aye Mike, "In FH you must create the Birth Informed and Death Informed custom events (or whatever you want to call them). " Now becomes: "Your screenshot shows you creating a Property Box Custom Item but that only works for existing data items. You must use Tools Fact Types and create a New custom F...

Aye Mike, I have failed at the first hurdle! :oops: Hi Bill, There are several aspects to this process (that Ann may also want to study). I have assumed Method 1 Source Citations . In FH you must create the Birth Informed and Death Informed custom events (or whatever you want to call them). In AS yo...

Thank you Mike.

My regards, Bill

Aye Mike, No need to apologise about moving the post and deleting the original, thank you for sorting it to suit the forum. Thank you also to the other respondents to my late night "download", it had been a along evening, with the FH Book and software and my brain hurt! :( Knowing your goal before s...

Aye Mike,

Thank you very much for the 'blow by blow' instructions in answer to my request. You were correct to assume Method 1 Source Citations. I will use the instructions and then report back in the near future.

Good health and my regards, Bill

Aye Adrian and Mike, Mike Gordon wrote: "However, when the programme package is advertised for sale, I think there should be a note to say that the buyer may find the programme difficult to use without also buying the book." Adrian Bruce wrote: "Absolutely not intending any criticism of anyone, but ...

Aye Mike, I was plucking up courage to have another try at entering data into FH v6.2 using AS v5.2.0 and then read this thread and the link that you provided: ancestralsources:family_historian_birth_death_informant_witness_role|> Family Historian Birth & Death Informant Witness Role . After reading...

Dear jsphillips,
Thank you, but there is no need to apologies, as I haven't taken umbrage!
I hope that you are able to disentangle the mystery that has been posed, sometimes these can be like a worm niggling at the back of your mind.
Good health for 2018.
My regards, Bill

Good evening jsphillips, There is nothing "spoof" about the private emails that you have received from me. I intentionaly sent them using the "Contact link" given in your "Profile" on this forum. I apologise if this has caused you concern and upset you or possible relatives that was not my intention...

I had a similar problem with the legitamate birth of a son, whom later became a "rake" of the first order, specialising in using aliases. After 30+ years of criminality and prison sentences, he appeared (!) to lead a respectable life. BUT and it is a BIG BUT, he married, had a child and was then reg...

Thank you Helen, I reported it just afore 01:00hrs this morning.

May I take the opportunity to thank all 'Moderators' for their unpaid hours to keep the site up and running?

My regards, Bill

Aye Jim, Wikipedia "Tamura (usually written 田村), a Japanese placename and family name" and I believe that the Japanese language tends to be "gender neutral", it isn't a grammatical thing as there is no choice in the language, but more the manner in which the language is spoken by men and women. And ...

Aye Colin, The majority of "Farmers" are "Tenant Farmers". ;) Also have a look at the online "Valuation Rolls" on the ScotlandsPeople website. No information for your Helen Bannerman, but the fortunes of your farmer Smyth are available in at least 5 yearly intervals and maybe annualy depending upon ...

Aye Colin, "BANNERMAN, HELEN, 1851, F, 17, 158/ 2/ 7, Inverkeithny, Banff" is the result from searching using "BANNERMAN HELEN 1851" in the Scotlands People, Census, 'Search'. If you use this transcribed data from ScotlandsPlaces, I think the entry at the bottom of this linked page, explains more ab...

Aye Colin, I find this site invaluable for maps and being able to view earlier editions over current aerial/satellite imagery and this link takes you to the OS Six Inch 1843-1882 series map, with North and South Auchininna and Auchininna Croft all shown. On the current aerial image North Auchininna ...

Aye Colin, I would proceed as per Mike's (Tatewise) reply. See attached below the entry for Ellen Anderson, in entry Number 40 of the Schedule. The Scottish Census form for the 1851 Census is similar to, but not the same as the attached one from the 1871 Census. Note that the 'Relationship' column l...

Good afternoon Helen, those "To do" items.

Good health and good luck, Bill

Aye Mike, Knowing my past and present history with FH and that of trying to use my past employers "off the shelf" database product, which was then heavily "modified" inhouse and by expensive "consultants", may I just suggest that the "KISS" acronym needs to be kept at the forefront of any thoughts a...