Family Historian User Group

I came here to report a bug, but I see Lorna has beaten me to it. I'm getting the same error report under the same circumstances, i.e. when updating the birth date with a blank birth place.

I used the new beta last night to enter some census data - a dozen or so household records - and experienced no problems. I found the inclusion of a new field to enter the short title to be particularly useful. That gets a big thumbs-up from me. My only criticism would be that I want to see both the...

You're not wrong, Mike. That said, I spend an awful lot of time every week editing other people's poor copy. You would think consistency and logic were to be expected, but some professional 'writers' can't even get their heads around correct capitalisation and punctuation!

It is intriguing. I can only assume the backlash hurt them more than they care to admit. Perhaps many people may have Ancestry subscriptions that renew around Christmas/New Year and these took a nose-dive?

Nick-V wrote: Bearing in mind how much we pay to Ancestry each month, the one off outlay to buy FH (or whatever) is insignificant, indeed I have even suggested that we might pay a significant sum or regular fee for FH to provide synchronisation. I am not as bothered with synchronisation (by which I...

Nick-V wrote: I suspect that searching Ancestry will still require that one is an Ancestry member and pays them a fee. You won't be able to do it solely because you use RM or FTM. No, of course not, nor would I be expect to be able to. What would be nice though would be an indication in FH that the...

I can well imagine RootsMagic will have to be paying a hefty licence fee to Ancestry to be able to link in with their databases (if not, Ancestry need their heads looking at), and the quid pro quo negotiated by RootsMagic will be an exclusive access deal for their software (FTM excepted) — at least ...

How would you handle this? I have an email from a correspondent which contains some family information, and also refers to an attached image of some old family documents. The image of the document contains further family information. I can create separate sources for the email and the document sent ...

I just did a quick search on Ancestry out of interest. There was a Susanah CLEIGHAN (same pronounciation as Cllaghan) enumerated in the 1841 census of England. She was living in Maguire Street, Liverpool and 14 years old (i.e. born about 1827). She was living with: Jas. (James) CLEIGHAN, age 40, bor...

Mary and Elizabeth are both recorded as "not married". That, and the fact that they both have the same surname, would indicate that Cllaghan is their maiden surname. Their relationship to the head of the household, the widow Susanna Brennan, is given as "sister". From that I would say you can reason...

If you did a "clean install" of Windows 10 (had the Windows 10 installation start afresh, thereby wiping/resetting your C drive), rather than an "upgrade in place" (instructed the Windows 10 installation to save all of your files, settings, and programs), then you will need to reinstall any 3rd-part...

I'm working from memory here, so apologies if I"m not quite right: Click on start In the start menu that opens, click on All Applications Scroll through the list, or click on an index letter and then click on F to jump through the list more quickly When you get to Family Historian in the list, doubl...

That second method sounds preferable, Mike. Presumably, though, it could only be used when a woman had no children from ANY relationship? It wouldn't work, for example, if a woman had children by her first marriage but not by her second?

Is there a way to record that a couple had no children, when this is definitively known? Indeed, is there a way to record ANY given child count, even if one is not intending to individually record all of the children in the tree? That would be useful for remoter twigs -- I am not much interested in ...

Canada has never been part of the the USA. Ignoring the earliest colonial history, which is a little complicated, what we now call Canada was a group of British colonies and provinces that began to federate in 1867. Canada gained full independence de facto in 1931, and de jure in 1982 when its final...

The National Library of Ireland has published the catholic parish registers it holds at http://registers.nli.ie/. They can be searched and viewed for free, and digital images can be downloaded for free also.

How would you parse those functions to get the required output? I haven't really got into that much depth yet; I'm still barely scratching the surface with the software.

I have considered that option; it may be the only workable solution. The downside is you lose the ability to record historic place names if these are different, without resorting to multiple records.

A question for a power user, I expect! I am aware place names can be truncated at the first or second comma in narrative reports by setting them to short or medium rather than tidy/full. I have a slightly more complicated requirement. Half my tree is American, because of my wife, so my place names a...

Birmingham electoral rolls are available online, but they are behind a pay wall (either subscription or pay-as-you-go). They can be found here: http://www.midlandshistoricaldata.org/ They have the following rolls for Birmingham: North Warwickshire Poll Book , 1832 North Warwickshire Poll Book , 1832...

D'oh!

Should have thought of that one myself! Thank you.

@Peter R Yes. That sort of works, but it is reported as "Anne Marie SURNAME (known as 'Anne Marie')". I can live with that if need be. It's a little annoying though, partially because of the duplication, but also because it implies she had a first and middle name and always used both, when in fact h...

We can use two solidi to mark surnames with multiple elements e.g. Lise /Van der Kip/ , so that they appear correctly in reports, alphabetised lists etc. Is there any way to invisibly mark double-barrelled, unhyphenated first names? I have a couple of "Anne Marie"s and "Anna Marie"s in my tree, they...

But if the hierarchy is so obscure that it is meaningless, then does it make any sense to use it? For instance, if I refer to "Widnes, Halton, England", is that the Halton near Leeds, the Halton in Bucks (where RAF Halton is)? Well, the clue is that it's the Halton containing Widnes. Err - isn't th...

The 1997 Lieutenancies Act separated ceremonial counties ("counties and areas for the purposes of the lieutenancies in Great Britain") from administrative counties. The Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire performs his duties within the ceremonial county of Cheshire, which for the purposes of administration ...