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I had similar on a 1911 census schedule. I assumed it happened because the father had to enter the number of children born in the marriage, and irrespective of the number still alive, perhaps assumed he had to name all those who were born, still alive or not. I amended the fact sentence to include n...

When viewing the household image (schedule) on FMP, there is a link to additional information/address or a similarly named button (I'm not at my PC right now to check exactly what the link button is called). Clicking on it will open a "filmstrip" of additional related document images, which can be v...

A bit of googling found this, from Hansard, debated on Monday 27th February 1928: Mr. C. EDWARDS asked the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware that children entering the elementary schools or when seeking employment can, by filling up a prescribed form, obtain a birth certificate...

This is another - my grandmother's, issued for the purposes of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901 when she was thirteen.

The declaration on the reverse, completed and signed by her father, stated that it was "required to enable her to go into service".

I am using Jane's GEDmatch fact and query, albeit with a minor amendment to the query and a modified fact note, with additional fields and an autotext template grid for the matching chromosome information, where it is available. https://www.taubman.org.uk/family/wp/2019/03/13/recording-dna-matches-i...

I have two similar examples in my tree, one involving my great-grandparents. In both cases, one party to the marriage was still married to someone else, despite declaring to the contrary, rendering the marriages bigamous. They married again after the death of the "inconvenient" party, not necessaril...

I'm also a splitter, and although I use Ancestral Sources a lot, when entering several generic sources of the same type, particularly relatively simple sources from the same register (by that I mean with fairly concise and similar information in each record, that is easy to transcribe and alter by e...

With the risk that I am missing something obvious, and bearing in mind that I only use generic source records, this is how I record BMD sources. Title: Birth (or Death) SMITH, Arthur 1905 Q2 Bingham, Nottinghamshire or for marriages, Title: Marriage SMITH, Albert & JONES, Ada 1925 Q2 Basford, Nottin...

I agree with Nick. I have about half a dozen deaths in my project where there is an inconsistency of several days between the death certificate and the death date inscribed on a gravestone, or recorded elsewhere. It is impossible to know which might be correct, although depending on the circumstance...

I use Jane's GEDmatch fact and query, together with diagram box icons for shared DNA matches and most recent common ancestors. I keep relevant information in the fact note, and the query result allows the standard "how related" function to be run against matches to show the connecting lines and comm...

I don't use templated sources, but have you edited the source titles for each type of source in the individual source setting pages for each type of source being created? e.g. from AS menus>Tools>Options and edit the source title options templates for census, birth, baptism, marriage etc. as require...

Layout C is exactly how I use FH, except that I have the property box docked with the focus window open, but floating with the diagram window. I have the citation window of similar size and position as in your image, but only open it when I need it. I also have FH set to resize to the width of the p...

You can create a template with the desired headings included, but I don't think it is possible to autofill the registration district and sub-district locations, as that would require associated input fields to be written into the AS BMD input screens, as otherwise AS has no knowledge of that informa...

Thank you Tim, that does help greatly. There is also a reference in the BHO section relating to Charlton Adam, which I have previously quoted sections from within my project, although not in relation to tithes or inclosure. I had also referred to several books that I have copies of, which contain se...

I have a copy of a Tithe Rent Apportionment and Corn-Rent Conversion map, which are causing me some confusion, and wondered if anyone can explain please? The parishes concerned are Charlton Adam and Charlton Mackrell in Somerset. My understanding is that the apportionments and maps were produced as ...

I would be interested but surprised if removing the [[ privacy brackets ]] makes any difference. You may well be correct Mike. I only mentioned it because the issues I originally reported included carriage returns or blank lines within notes enclosed in privacy brackets causing unwanted blank lines...

Hmm, a lot of food for thought there. I'm beginning to see the light. I found it much easier to understand the necessity for consistency in the place filed though. I admit to having made a conscious decision from the start to always use "Road" and "Street" etc. rather than abbreviations in the addre...

I have a custom "Misc" fact that I use for several purposes, and often alter the sentence template to suit a particular use. In one instance I have just checked, the fact relates to the history of the Short Blue Fleet which my GF sailed in. I replaced the sentence template with the single code {note...

Or just France and France - that is less error-prone, and have ,,France as the standard name. In my experience, absolute consistency is more difficult to achieve with addresses than with places. I have a family variously recorded as living at 4 Crescent Cottages, Crescent Cottages, 4 Crescent Cotta...

Consistency is important for future searches and analysis, even if you have no use for it at present. That crops up regularly in these Forums, and inconsistent data can be a stumbling block. Take a look at Tools > Work with Data > Addresses... and review how your address columns are presented. It i...

Thanks both of you. Mick, I probably wasn't explicit enough in my original post. I do keep addresses separate from places, and I now have all of my places "properly" constructed in three part, comma separated format after a couple of days spent resorting them. I'm quite happy with the consistency of...

I have spent the best part of a couple of days tidying up my places and addresses, which was long overdue and a great improvement on their previous state that had become somewhat inconsistent. The only issue I still have unresolved is whether to separate house names or numbers and streets with a com...

Nick, obviously I am biased ;) My main use of the text from source is for quick references to the content of the census form, e.g. when carrying out further research on an individual who appeared on that page and similar checks. So I prefer the text to be as clear as possible, and to that end also e...

They have also altered the behaviour of the camera icon in My Records. It now takes you back to the FMP viewer and filmstrip, from where you can access the additional materials if you neglected to do so originally. Previously, it would only offer to download the original image to your device.

Ruth, If it is of use to you (or anyone else) I've changed the short-title of the "Marriage or Orphanhood" column, as it appears in the data input box and text from source, to "Marr/Orph'd". I've also added a drop-down for "None" to the number of children under 16 column, which I realised was previo...