Family Historian User Group

When the subscription period ends Mike.

No, the link I referred to in my previous post is for an offer of a 12 month worldwide subscription for £89.99. It seems to only work reliably if you have let your subscription lapse, as it is intended for "new" subscribers, although as I mentioned I successfully accessed it about a month ago even t...

This is from the list of version updates for FH 7.0.18, which expands on Lorna's post. Since the last release, Family Historian now has two sentence template codes – {note} and {inline-note} – where previously it just had one ({note}). When generating sentences and sentence templates for narrative r...

There were a number of fixes to crossing lines and box placement made by CP in earlier V7 updates. I know because I reported some of them, and saw at least one additional issue reported in the forum that was also fixed. It may be worth reporting it to CP just in case. If they can verify an unintende...

I assumed from Victor's post that he's referring to copies of the original parish register marriage entries that LMA hold. if you order a marriage certificate from GRO you get a copy of the same register entry on a fancy piece of paper. But I'm not sure about them being freely available at LMA. Many...

And it's also always possible the clerk at the district registration office made an error...ALL documents contain the possibility of error. Yes, of course that is also true, and the informant could also have lied. But the local district copy, if it is an image of the original register, is as close ...

And the original handwritten register entries are held by district registration offices. The copies held by GRO are also transcripts, laboriously copied from the original records by the registrars and periodically sent to GRO. The GRO copies can also contain errors as in the example I mentioned here...

A newer link to a worldwide subscription for £89.99 has recently been posted on the RootsChat forum. As with the previous similar offer, it is intended for new subscribers, but I used the previous offer successfully after allowing my subscription to lapse for 24 hours. I'm not sure that it would be ...

Not quite. Neither of them are copies of certificates. The certificates they provide to order are copies of the register entries. Local registration offices usually have the original registers, and can provide certificates which often, but not always, contain an image of the original entry. I have L...

Ah. On both machines FH when restored down occupies the right half of the screen, so that I can still refer to and enter data into it whilst viewing information in the left half. I'm not going to change that just to reposition the splash screen, so I guess I'll just have to live with it. It would ha...

The list of updates for version 7.0.21.0 includes an adjustment to the behaviour of the splash screen for multiple monitors. "If you have multiple monitors, the Splash screen did not always appear where the main window would appear. It now appears centred on where the ‘restored’ (i.e. when not maxim...

Not a death, but my GF was at sea on the night of the 1921 census. I edited the fact sentence to simply <para>{note}<para> and the fact note reads, "He appeared in the census on 19 June 1921 as a Signalman on board HMS Cleopatra, a light cruiser of the Royal Navy, then serving in the Atlantic Fleet....

The Vicar is quite interesting. George Townsend MARKER, an alumni of Balliol College, Oxford. Vicar of Uffculme from 1833 until his death on 4th December 1874. He apparently assumed the surname of SMITH in lieu of MARKER at some stage. Both names can be found in the same register as the marriage und...

Ah, then I have misunderstood the role definition. Having spent many years assessing evidence and preparing documents for criminal proceeding though, it still seems odd to me, although I can now see the difference. I must admit that I have never used the witness role in the way you describe in my pr...

I would question adding a parent as a witness unless you have specific evidence that they were present at the Christening. One of my great uncles was baptised at a church in Darenth, Kent. His mother and father with whom he had lived in Canning Town were recorded as his parents in the register. But ...

That is why one can't really tag a single event or attribute with a level of evidentiary value. That value has to be assessed when one is looking at answering a specific question. You can record the source (the census) and cite it against each event that it provides an evidential value towards. The...

Any historic record can contain false or erroneous information. It is by seeking information from a variety of sources that we might obtain corroboration to add weight to suppositions and draw conclusions. Censuses are a valid part of that research. Censuses are also a source of information about th...

What happens if you remove the brackets? I have several people referenced with "unnamed" or "unknown" in their names, such as "unnamed male infant MERRYWEATHER" or "unknown GILPIN" (i.e. unnamed male infant /Merryweather/, unknown /Gilpin/) and have no such issues with narrative reports. I have been...

"RS3100"; I always meant to ask if anyone had heard whether CP intended to publish an updated book for FH7. The FH6 one may cover some aspects, but I understood that FH7 made some important changes. I'm just a user and a customer like you. You would probably have to ask that question of CP, but the...

I would echo Helen's suggestion re the Getting the most from FH6 paperback. I started using FH with version 6, but at the time only the similar FH5 guide book was available. The differences between the book and the software were fairly straightforward to negotiate for me, as a fairly competent PC us...

I don't use templates sources, but I do have a Court of Chancery case and several other lengthy and/or convoluted events in my project. What I have done is to attach all the original document images to the source, as well as plain text transcripts of those documents. I also create a summary or more ...

There's nothing I can add to the above, except to say that as a fairly extensive user of {note} and now {inline-note} to add to or replace fact sentences, and even add multiple paragraphs of information to narrative reports, such as a summary of military careers, I agree with all the above. Just wan...

It is also possible for the primary tester to be related to a DNA match through more than one MRCA, singular or couple. I have quite a few instances in my own tree of being related to matches via two or three different MRCAs, due to pedigree collapse in small rural communities. The built-in "How Rel...

2nd attempt at replying as I'm on a ferry at the moment with poor bandwidth and unreliable connectivity. I use Jane Taubman's custom GEDmatch fact and associated query for recording DNA matches. The query result shows the MRCA(s) for each match along with the match's relationship to the primary DNA ...

The informant is sometimes recorded as present at the death also.