Family Historian User Group

Good morning E Wilcock, I am wary of adding my pennyworth when Jane and Mike have added the weight of their knowledge to your query. However, in my 'Project', I select View , Record Lists , Individuals . This provides me with a table of individuals sorted by surname. I can then re-order the table by...

Aye Mike, never had the problem, but thank you for this tip.
My regards, Bill

Good evening Ann,

I agree with Jane's suggested recording method and would show Mary's father as an unamed father and the 'Status' of the 'Spouse/Partner' in FH as "Unknown" that is unless you know otherwise.

My regards, Bill

My pleasure Lorna.

Bill

Aye Lorna, Have you tried viewing a map of Farringdon? The following link is to the National Library of Scotland (NLS) website and the map is overlain on the Google satellite imagery that you can fade in or out. The map was updated in 1895 and published in 1897. I know this is some 30 years after yo...

I would agree with Brian's interpretation "'Farmer of eight acres'". Sometimes, here in Scotland, usually in close vicinity to the towns and cities "Market gardeners" were also called "Gardeners" or "Farmers", when being recorded in official registers and census. They are also often listed separatel...

Aye John, To date, with the majority of my entries of data into FH I have used AS. Much of my research has been into Scottish families dating from the early 20th Century back to the mid 17th Century. So as to retain some consistancy in my FH records, inspite of the great variation in document form a...

I too find this useful, when visualising 11 sibling families! Thank you Mike.

My regards, Bill

Thank you Lorna, Don, David and Mike, I understand your reasoning behind the suggestion of the word being "Stationer's" and will use this interpretation. As an aside, Don's interpretation of Janet's Mother's (Jean) occupation is incorrect. Jean's husband was a "Painter (Master)" or "Housepainter - M...

Please may I ask if anybody can give a sensible interpretation for the job/occupation that Janet Sinclair, aged 22, is employed as in this entry to the 1891 Census? It appears to be "Plahoner's Shop Keeper", but what or who a "Plahoner" was in 1891 Edinburgh, I do not have a clue! I have underlined ...

Aye jmurphy,

That is my understanding as well and my use of the "/Surname_space/" format is just the way my discombobulated mind works.

Good health and my regards, Bill

Aye jmurphy, An alternative is to enter the unknown named brothers spouse as "Christina Hughes //" . Christina being her given name, Hughes her married surname and // for where her maiden surname will be entered and her relationship to the head of the family is selected as "Daughter-in-Law" from the...

Good evening "amateur", I use the method advocated by Jane and Helen, using Helen's preference for an "unamed" or "unknown" male individual, who's name and other details can be added at a later date when they become available to you. See attached example derived from my AS entries and displayed in t...

Good evening Mike, Just re-ordered my F:/ Family_history/!!!_Anderson/ folder, so as to have a less nested structure and "Hey Presto!" AS viewer now identifies the image file and I am able to apply 'Keywords' before saving it in my FH Project 'Media' files. It's that old problem of being specific, s...

Aye David, I use a copy of Adobe Acrobat 8 'Standard'. Had it for a long time and don't feel a need to update it. Has all the bells and whistles for copying and pasting, OCR, markup of text etc. that I am ever going to need and then some. I have used some of the "alternatives" and 'Acrobat Reader', ...

Aye Mike, No, you misunderstand. I have made no amendments within the FH Projects, Media folders. What I should have said is " I opened AS, selected the FH Project and then went to select the image from my F:/ Family_history/!!!_Anderson/ folder, from which I wished to enter the data, using the AS i...

Good morning Mike and David, Thank you both for your replies and suggestions. NO "Commands" were used to generate the 'Error message', as in coded instructions, I don't know how! ;) I opened AS, selected the FH Project and then went to select the image from which I wished to enter the data, using th...

Does anybody have a possible explanation for AS not being able to recognise a jpg file to link as a new image to a new entry? I suspect, knowing my capabilities, that there is something relatively simple behind the problem. Having re-arranged my folders in my 'Family History' files, NOT IN THE 'FH P...

Aye Adrian, The 2 references I quoted in my sentence: "The information I required was in "British India Ecclesiastical Returns, Births and Baptisms" and "solemnised at the Presidency of Bombay and registered in St. Andrew's Church"." "British India Ecclesiastical Returns, Births and Baptisms" these ...

Aye Savanna, There is also this link via the "FindMyPast" website that the British Library advises may provide more documents than they have listed online at present. Connection_to_FindMyPast_British_Library_link_for_British_India_Office_collection Document images may be downloaded from this link. M...

My pleasure Savanna.

Bill

Aye Savanna, My wife has relatives, both Scots, who went to India, were married in India and had children there before the husband was killed; the family then returned to England and thence to Scotland. I spent a long time hunting for information and was able to find it by searching on the British L...

Dear NickiP, That is marvellous, thank you very much indeed, for your time and effort to decipher the text. :D I shall now use it to have a crack at the other Wills that I have to decipher. Yes, I had to reduce the image size so that I might post it on the forum as an attachment to my post. For thos...

Thank you All for your suggestions and Mike for having a stab at the interpretation. I wasn't expecting a full translation by anybody, after all it is part of the 'fun' of this crazy pastime, or business, if you choose to make it so. I like the idea of the pencil and paper and leaving spaces that yo...

I have recently had cause to try and unravel several 18th and 19th Century legal documents written in the 'Legal italic' style! :? Does anybody have any 'Hints' or 'Tips' to try and ease this process, or is it a case of sheer persistance and 'bloody mindedness', with a degree of interpretation? I ha...