Family Historian User Group

I see you have swallowed the Apple iPhone, iPad, iTunes, etc, marketing publicity. Apple are very good at it, and charge you a fortune as well. Android can generally do all those things too, but cheaper. Not me. I use iTunes on my Windows computer, have an Android smartphone, and use TiVos which ar...

... without all the excess baggage of family trees, forums, and social networking. Except that my view - and I suspect Ancestry's as well - is that the "average punter" would look down their nose at a site without all that "modern" stuff. Judging by the (in my personal view) mor...

I wanted to drop in for reference the link to Keith Riggle's series on GenealogyTools.com: Replacing Family Tree Maker, Part 1: How to Scrub Your Data He's doing a series on converting FTM data to other programs and plans to have a post on Family Historian. It will be interesting to see what he has ...

I just hope that now Ancestry is "venture capitalised" it at least retains its empathy towards genealogists. Is the discontinuence of FTM a start, or should they never have started the post FTM16 version in the first place, but that is another story. In my opinion, Ancestry's new business...

Hi, Bill --

I found out about Paul Nixon's blog because of a webinar he did -- if I recall correctly, it was offered as one of the "Find My Past Firsts" perks.

Glad the information helped!

Yes, I don't understand the thinking behind searching the FH Wish List for an AS feature. Even if an FH feature, it would not be in the Wish List if it already existed. The Read Before Posting advice mentions 3 things to check and you only checked the 1st. 1. Already on the Wish List 2. Covered on ...

A search on the Castle Garden site http://www.castlegarden.org/searcher.php for William Bradley from 1881 to 1882 produces 8 people of that name. However your William would have been about 40, and those in the list range in age from 11 to 30. (Castle Garden was the main US immigration centre until ...

Peter -- I don't know if you use Google Calendar at all, but I've started to use the Task list to make a note to myself of when the auto-renew comes up on my subscriptions (and when the sub expires if it isn't set to auto-renew). I do appreciate that you can easily turn off auto-renew at Find My Pas...

BTW, for finding and using codes for old places, (at least in Scotland) have you ever used the NLS website ? It has a huge range of old maps, which use modern overlays, and enables you to pin-point long-gone streets, farms and villages. It's an amazing resource, and well worth a look. http://maps.n...

Just sticking my nose in here because I purchased FTM2014 (after the announcement) to help with checking whether I have actually downloaded all of the (in Ancestry-speak) "citation media" in my online Ancestry trees, especially since Ancestry bars you from looking at the images if your sub...

To the previous answers I'd like to add a link to the British Library's Guide on tracing living people: http://www.bl.uk/britishlibrary/~/media/subjects%20images/government%20publications/pdfs/tracing-living-people.pdf Some of the resources within have already been mentioned, and some of the links m...

I have upgraded Clooz, and I'm looking forward to trying out the new export to FH after the holiday period is over. One of the things I haven't really worked out yet is whether I want to send information from Clooz to FH, or carry on as I was, using Ancestral Sources. I often have information which ...

After poking about in Ancestry's support center, and doing some research, I decided to buy a boxed copy of FTM instead of purchasing a download via Ancestry's website. I found the Platinum edition which comes with an Ancestry subscription -- for not much more than the subscription would have been. S...

While FH users get a discount, it doesn't hurt to keep an eye out for other offers. Thomas MacEntee, the author of the Geneabloggers blog, and the person behind the Genealogy Do-Over, has a series of posts about Genealogy Bargains. Earlier this month, he announced an offer from MyHeritage: Are you r...

Colin --

I've just asked to join, and sent a message on Facebook saying I would be pleased to help admin. (My profile picture here is the same one I use on Google+, but it is not the same as my Facebook profile picture.)

Jane -- Because of the announcement over FTM's EOL, I've been recommending Family Historian to FTM users when I can, especially on Facebook. This has led to an inquiry about whether there is a FH6 user's group on Facebook. I know from reading the RootsWeb mailing list that there is a lot of encourag...

I know I can import a Gedcom file easy enough, but it's the many census and various record images that are attached to people which I do not know how to handle. FTM + TreeSync exported GEDCOM usually include attached Media images that are NOT included with an Ancestry exported GEDCOM . But maybe yo...

I agree with the comments already posted. These and all extracted records are derivative records. Errors can happen any time a record is copied and/or modified (i.e. when the transcription is converted to a computer database). See if the originals still exist, and try to get copies of the images. If...

I just heard the story on Facebook and am talking up Family Historian for the people who are Christmas shopping. This is not a hoax - got confirmation from Crista Cowan. From the blog post: [W]e’ve taken a hard look at the declining desktop software market and the impact this has on being able to co...

A linked question with tongue in cheek - for those of us who claim our UK place-names are "settlement, county, country" - what do we do with unitary authorities? Do we treat them as similar to counties corporate? Such as "Warrington, Lancashire, England" up to 1974; "Warrin...

I hope you realise that clicking the web search page column headings performs a sort, and clicking again performs a reverse sort. So click twice on the FindMyPast heading to sort the 1939 Register entries together at the top. Yes, that's exactly what I did. A very nice feature! To convert the Resid...

Please see 13030|Lookup Missing Census Facts for 1939 Register . Mike -- thanks very much! I would like to have results that were only the 1939 Register, but this is easily solved by sorting the results by record set and changing the sort to descending so that the 1939 Register is shown at the top....

As of about 5pm on 18th November FMP have also removed the helpful code from the link. However, there is a workaround. See blog posting at kiwitrees.net - he was very quick off the mark :D http://kiwitrees.net/kiwi-blog/using-the-1939-register-at-findmypast-for-free/ This may be old news by now, bu...

How can I make use of Family Historian to set up searches in the 1939 Census? Here's what I'd like to do. I already understand how to use the standard "Estimated Alive At" query. I can plug in the date that the enumeration was taken and get a search result. I see that I can save it to a fi...

I've just ordered the new Third Edition of EE, and look forward to writing spiffy new source citations. My opinion? When you have been thinking about source citations for a while and your head starts to spin, go back to basic principles. Unless we are in the middle of preparing something for publica...