Family Historian User Group

Dear Mike,
I took up your suggestion of contacting the local library. I emailed at 9am by 11.30 I had had a reply from Beverley Archive with several line of enquiry. Once again really good service from an archive. Thank you for the suggestion.
Ann

Thanks Mike I will keep on searching.
Ann

Dear Mike, Just re-checked the image and it is definitely married 2 years. Also it was the birth mother who registered the birth. He was born 26 Sept 1917 in Beverley Yorkshire, the birth was registered by the mother end Oct 1917 in Failsworth and the letter giving the baby away dated 25 Dec 1917. I...

Hi Mike, thank you for that. The birth certificate gave the address of the birth. I have Googled that and it is an end of terrace in Beverley Yorkshire, it was on Zoopla as it had been sold last year, it had 3 bedrooms, would this have been big enough to be somewhere for unmarried mothers? Your sugg...

Dear Jane,
Thank you for your help. I can move forward now.
Regards Ann

Hi, Not sure I'm on the correct forum but Mike will direct me if I'm wrong. Just lately I have been trying to help my cousin find her father's family. A couple of years ago she discovered that her father had been given away on Christmas day 1917. His name was changed to that of the 'adoptive' parent...

Hi, My Mum had a cousin the link was via her cousin's father. I spent much of my childhood mixing with the family of the family of my mother's cousin's mother. They were not blood relatives to me but the families were related by their lives, so it has been interesting to research how these families ...

Hi Nick,
Thank you for the explanation. I do click the auto text. It is good of you to get back so quickly.
Regards Ann

Hi Nick, yes I entered it in the Registrar box. When I have finished entering all the details I click save and a window appears with a digest of the information and the last on the list says Minister, but the name I entered for the Registrar appears. It is probably me not following the right procedu...

Hi, I have just been entering 2 death cerificates. All went well, entered the Registrar's name. When I clicked save and the information came up instead of saying Registrar it said Minister. What have I done wrong please?
Ann

I open FH and then open AS. It then asks me the project name, I click on that and can enter all the information I have. If I minimise AS wishing to do something in FH it asks to update, I do, deal with what I need to do and then maximise AS again. I don't find any problems.

Thanks Mike and there I was feeling pleased with myself!
Ann

Tried earlier to post a reply but it disappeared. Here goes again. Like you Malcolm, I am trying to extract a line from my main project. I am in the process of trying to produce information for a relative on my maternal grandfather's line. My main project is centred on my son, so first I ran the plu...

Mike, once again thank you for your detailed work on my problem. Being dim, I must admit I only understand some of your answer. You gave me exactly what I wanted in your reply on 7 Jan 14.03. I created a column on the records window with all the generations generated as I wanted. (I noticed that the...

I'm not trying to be argumentative but just a thought. If you don't number generations from the present root =0, parents = 1, grandparents = 2 etc and you reverse it, what happens if you allocate 1st generation to the furthest person you have? How can you go back any further? Eg I have my son's 7x g...

Hello Gowermick, Thank you for your thoughts. I have sorted the principle of the generation arrangement with Mike's help. I have my record's window with our son as root, and my husband and myself as generation 1, our parents as gen 2 etc. FH has generated the list for me and I have created a column ...

I am really sorry but allocating the generation colours in a diagram is not working. (I tried a screen shot but didn't work) The relationship is listed at left side of diagram which is great. However the colours are confused. I went to Options > general and the orientation is Top-Down. Boxes Tab and...

As always thank you Mike and also thank you Bob. Mike after your last post I did think about sorting the records window on the generation tab and that was fine. Thanks Ann

Mike, I just used the expression you gave and put it as a column on the record's window and it seems to have given me what I want. I'm sorry I'm imposing on you now. Is it possible to run a query to list the individuals in each generation? Would I use the same expression but change the number after ...

Hi, My main work is from our son, Gwilym, who I always set at 0 generations. This means that we (my husband and I) are 1, our parents 2 and so on. Which is what I think you were referring to with the expression. When I set a query for Gwil for ancestors, it returned the list with generation exactly ...

I run FH in conjunction with Custodian 4. Custodian requires the creation of family id, personal id and household id. I have been putting the personal id created, as a custom id in FH. The only Custodian id with reference to generation is the household id but this id changes as to where the person i...

The Find My Past was for 1 month for £1. I asked but the 1939 "census" was not available with this option. I was offered a reduced 12month subscription for £120 but as I have Ancestry I too cannot afford both. I will have to make time to go to the local library! I found the GRO downloads very useful...

Thank you for the succinct explanation Mike. I can follow that now.
Regards Ann

Hi I seem to have opened a can of worms! Like David I don't always have dates. For as many people as possible I crop my favourite photograph to have their face appear in the focus window and in reports etc. so this has to be preference 1. Then I put the media, including images of censuses and certif...

Thanks Mike, not sure I can get what I want, but it isn't really important just a faddy thing on my part!
Ann