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Please may I ask if any body can give me a lead to decipher this Dennistoun Registrar's signature from 1890? The two marriages on the form were both entered by the Assistant Registrar and so there is no other writing in this hand to compare the signature to. Thank you for your time and assistance. B...

Thank you Mike, if it helps others, all well and good.

My regards, BillR

Good evening Mike,

I have just run FH File> Validate and all appears to be well. So, I shall start entering more data.

Hope the weather brightens for us all.

Again, my thanks and good health, BillR

Good afternoon Mike, Notice the GEDCOM Report starts with an anomaly in the Family record F385, which is the one Validate complains about. I think it is at that point the GEDCOM truncation has occurred. Correct. No Family records after F385. I imagine in that 'broken' Project, in the Records Window,...

Good morning Jane and Mike, In FH in the Records Window, open the Families tab, and sort into Rec Id order by clicking the Rec Id column header. You should be able to confirm that Rec Id 401 does not exist. Yes. I suspect the File > Validate... command will fix the problem by removing the broken lin...

Thank you Jane and Mike for your rapid and comprehensive replies. I shall have a crack at solving this a wee bit later on today and post the result.

Good health, BillR

Please may I ask for some help in loading a GEDCOM into AS? On trying to load a GEDCOM into AS v7.2.4 that I have been creating in FH v6.2 from new, I immediately saw a 'Error' window, with a white cross in a circle, with a red background, with the following message: "File cannot be loaded: Invalid ...

Mike, Thank you for your time and considered comments. The thought of getting my head around another database does not fill me with joy and I do like the combined package of AS and FH for data entry. May be FH v7 will go on the list! I will need to pay close attention to the does and don't you have ...

Mike, Please may I ask if you have any updates, observations, recommendations to make on the Ancestris software and the implications of its use of Java, versus FH v7.0.8? I am swithering whether to upgrade to FH v7.0.8, as I am not using all the buttons and whistles in FH v6.2.7 by a country mile an...

On a family history society forum of which I am a member, the following problem has been highlighted by a member in the Ancestry data. Other subscription data sites also have similar problems. .... searching in Ancestry once again for the national marriage records of two people in my family tree, re...

Aye Brian, Looks like some wag has seen the opportunity to amend the original OCR by using the text amendment facility to the left of the document screen. ;) So far as I am aware, as long as you are logged in to the BNA, then you can make amendments to the original OCR scan, to 'assist', or otherwis...

Aye princessbarbski, I have exported individual's GEDCOM from Family Historian (FH) v6.4.2 and successfully imported them into Personal Historian (PH) v3 Essentials (Free version), without problem, so far! What can appear to be a cluttered series of entries is easily populated/expanded, with your pe...

Thank you, for starting the thread Ann and for all the time and effort expended by the "guiding lights" of this forum who enable those of us "less able" to take advantage of this software to our own advantage.

Good health, Bill

Oh you "poor" souls, what was your Xmas bill for a day of gluttony? CP didn't cosh you over the head and use a set of stilsons to extract the 50p pieces from your clenched fists. :evil: You don't "need" software to enjoy genealogy, it makes your self-imposed task more convenient, for you. ;) Smile, ...

Aye Nick, Thank you very much for your rapid and comforting reply. I might even give it a go for entering entries from the Scottish valuation rolls that are available from Scotland'sPeople. These entries are a single line entries and in some instances there are annual entries along with the 5 year i...

Good evening, I have been using AS v5.3 to populate FH v6.2.7 and have used the 'Generic information' (exact wording maybe different!) format when transferring the data entry into FH. I haven't entered data into my small database for approximately 6 months and now have a wee backlog. The froth of th...

Aye GeorgeJ, I would agree with "Wulliam", having worked over much of Scotland since 1973, these additional "names" often relate to the place from which the person comes or a particular trait, mannerism they have and I have always known them as "bynames". e.g. Willie 'Skye' and his son Lachie 'Skye'...

Aye Russell, Always happy to give others some chuckle vision! ;) Having bide up here for most of my days, these colloquialisms are part of my sarf east, Norfolk, Scots vocabulary. Queen's is possible, but rare! :D "Knickers in a twist!" "Bit o' a tizzy!" "Fankle!" "I am going round in circles!" Take...

Aye Mike, Made a full search of all directories and deleted anything relating to 'Personal Historian 3'. Re-started the computer and then downloaded the application from the RootsMagic, 'Personal Historian 3' website. Opened and installed the download and "Hey presto!" no glitches or 'Application Er...

Aye Mike,

Thank you very much for your prompt analysis and reply.

Your ending remark helps my confidence and I will give the download and installation another go.

My regards, Bill

Aye Mike and Colin, After downloading the trial version of Personal Historian 3 and installing it on my computer running Windows10, I have been shown the following 'Application Error' message: "Exception EAccessViolation in Module PersonalHistorian.exe at 006C1AF0. Access violation at address 00AC1A...

Thank you Lorna, that was another of my 'problems'! But Calicoe Pie were very helpful and supplied all the necessary information.

My regards, Bill

Aye Bob, As a technical numpty when it comes to this sort of thing, I too came to grief with this! :oops: However, after reading this Guide in the Knowledge Base on this site, I managed to load FH on my new Win10 computer. It all appears to work, but I am not confident that the 'whistles and bells' ...

May I add that circular glass paper weights work very well, are inert and smooth surfaced and will not damage documents, photos, maps or cloth articles. They are not cheap ~£10 for a set of four (4) + P&P & VAT. An alternative, which is also not cheap, is a large piece of plate glass that can be use...

Aye William,

Have a wee read of this link: Family_Archive_Preservation_advice

I suspect it all depends on what else is hidden in your relatives chest of drawers or leaky garden shed, wi' nesting swallows above!

Good health, Bill