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Another thing to consider is the point of time which should be used for the standard! For example: 1. Warrington, being on the Lancashire/Cheshire border, has, over time, moved between the two. It even varies over the censuses! 2. Nearby Newton-le-Willows, used to called Newton in Makerfield. Nice a...

Mike,
Much the same thing, no problem.

Russell, I realise it won't be a consolation to you, but my Windows 10 PC also went through an update when I closed last night, but my FH opened without problem this morning. Like you I 'saved' before closing FH, then shut down PC. At least you can discount a problem with the update :D Mike PS as ge...

Works ok on iPad using Safari

When in map view, after placing a place marker on the map, one is able to see 'instantly' by left-clicking the mouse on the marker, which facts are tied to the place, via pop-up dialogue box. It would be nice if this useful pop-up was available when working with data 'places', rather than opening a ...

Roger, Whilst it seems like a good idea, I think it would need a pretty serious plugin to achieve this. It would be fairly complicated however, as church records tend to be spread over many sites, with no one site covering all churches! I think the best you can do, is produce a query which lists all...

As an aside, in Openoffice and other office products, some of the custom date format options available are 'dd mm yy' to give 16 02 99 'dd mmm yy' to give 16 feb 99 'dd mmmm yyyy' to give 16 february 1999 I don't know if FH uses these formats, try experimenting with number of d's and m's to see if t...

Hi, Welcome to the forum. Like you I switched from FTM, and must re-assure you that you made the right move. There may be a steepish learning curve, as FH does things slightly differently, albeit better, but it will soon feel familiar. Your first post is simple to answer Got to Tool/Preferences, and...

Mike, Whilst you are correct in what you say regarding fact filters, for someone not familiar with logic, I think it is harder for them to understand and appreciate what is going on. With the original query, one can step through each filter in turn and actually visualise what is happening to the res...

Bob, Steve got it partly right, but got it mangled in translation. What you should do is find everyone with saint in their title and add them to the empty list. 1: addif title contains saint 2: addif titl2 contains saint 3: addif titl3 contains saint Now go through the resulting list, and remove tho...

Mike,
Point take. I hadn't read your explanation properly.

Mike

Mike, Thanks for your tips re cursor, magnifier slider, and crosshairs. Sadly, the reason I use the mousewheel is that, being lazy, I don't have to worry where it is on the map. Unfortunately, both your suggestions involve placing the cursor on a particular part of the screen, something I'd rather n...

Mike, You're right that the map zooms perfecty when using the slider, but another feature is that the map zooms when using the mouse scroll wheel, but in that case, the location does not stay focused! (Something for Simon to investigate?) As my preferred way of zooming the map is via the mouse, the ...

That's part of the problem. If you try to enlarge the map to get a better look, the map moves but the cross stays in centre of the screen. With my 40" monitor, it is sometimes dificult to spot where centre of the Map screen is, let alone the miserable excuse of a cross. It wouldn't be so much of a p...

I find it difficult to spot the location of the indicator/pointer (fine cross) used to identify a location when searching in the Map window. Does anyone know how to change this? Ideally I'd like something like one of the markers used by FH, or at the least something bolder than the fine cross curren...

Mike,
Like your lateral thinking about making W10 backup then reverting for free later. Avoids the problem of not installing now, then being forced to pay at some later date - brilliant idea. I know reversion works, as I had to do it on a media PC, when W10 stopped TV component working.

Mike

GSB, What is your specific problem with Windows 10 (W10)? Having recently bought a new PC, it came with W10, and it seems MS has taken note of peoples complaints, and gone back to the old way of working with Window key method of opening programmes menus and shutting down PC. However, if you're happy...

NO! You always had to eject USB memory sticks before physically unplugging them. When you write data to the stick, it is not always done immediately, the operating system has to manage many programs that are running at the same time, so schedule them according to their priority. If nothing else is ...

Angela,
Good going. Just remember to 'Eject' them properly before unplugging them.
(find drive in windows explorer, right click then select 'Eject'. Windows will tell you when it is safe to remove it)

Thanks all for your suggestions. Apart from Mike's note and my Flag, the other suggestions seem a bit too heavy for what I want. Mervyn, I take your point about adding potential relatives, who than have to be deleted, but by unlinking the child, all associated relatives then become unrelated to the ...

Mike,
Your suggestion to qualify the relationship by adding a note and qualifying that, is certainly one way to go, especially if one could then use this in a filter for a query.
Thanks

One can easily allocate a quality rating to any fact! How do others rate the quality of esoteric things such as parentage? When one finds a 'potential' christening of an individual, by extension, the names of their parents are also 'potential'. How do others mark this relationship as potential, and ...

Mike, I agree, but I was referring to Angela's comment about spring cleaning and deleting some files, which compounded her problem by not allowing her to go back to an older backup. Personally, I have backups on CD, USB flash drives, USB Solid state drive, a NAS drive, my PC, my Laptop etc etc, abou...

Angela, Not withstanding all the good advice you've been given, your problem arose because you decided to do a bit of spring cleaning by 'deleting' unwanted files. My advice on this is not to delete anything! (Murphy's law says as soon as you delete something, you'll find you want it!) With the chea...

Using Firefox 47.0.1 as my external browser for viewing hints, I started getting Error 400 bad Request - Request Too Long error messages whenever I clicked on the 'Review' button for the hint. Viewing hints in FH6 internal browser worked fine. After repeatedly clearing the cache and Cookies in Firef...