Family Historian User Group

Cock up? Or conspiracy?

Louis Kessler's blog item now points to two YouTube presentations that presumably are the RootsTech presentations. The first, as indicated, is hardly technical. (And still doesn't explain - why?) Not looked at the second yet (because, now I find, it says "Private". Hmm).

... Data protection has come a long way. ... Yes, I remember standing in front of the very loud, impact printer as it ran off BR's payslips on a Tuesday night - we were honoured guests because we were looking after the implementation of our system, so "Come and look at this", they said. They did ma...

I suggest that you need to alter the Text Scheme for the diagram type in question to use the standard attribute Title . Right click on the diagram; then diagram options; then the text tab. Select the text scheme that you are using (if it's a standard scheme, it's probably a good idea to clone it to ...

... and in all seriousness, privacy concerns are part of the reason why most* countries don't have surviving censuses for their genealogists to work with.

* I have no quantification nor citation (generic or templated ) for saying "most" but my impression is that's true.

Just to add for the sake of completeness, that it is proposed (or maybe more accurately, it was proposed before things happened) that registration become a separate step for marriages in England & Wales, as well as Scotland, instead of the current de facto combined ceremony and registration.

... he suggests that date phrases, ranges and periods did not exist before! ... The only way I could make any sense of that was to wonder if " Between his marriage and the start of WW1" was the sort of thing that was meant. ... I wonder how long it will take for products to adopt GEDCOM 7.0 since f...

OK - I never thought we'd see the day. But maybe I was wrong... It appears that FamilySearch are poised to announce a Release Candidate for GEDCOM 7. Virtually no details yet but... Thanks to Louis Kessler's blog post on https://www.beholdgenealogy.com/blog/?p=3724 , which he hopes to update as info...

... Why are you storing that information? If it is to build up a highly detailed account of somebody’s military career, a bit more structure probably makes sense. If your aims are more modest, say just confirming family details or as a pointer to further research, simpler may be better. I think tha...

Thanks Helen - food for thought there. I think that looking at the Strathclyde PDF Referencing guide - which may or may not match up to the Essentials collection - and at Ian G MacDonald's Referencing for Genealogists - Sources and Citations , what strikes me is the way in which a whole host of docu...

As you will see from my details, I'm strictly v6 so far, so can't help with the templates... But for anyone who is cognisant of v7, but not cognisant of military stuff, I will throw in that Ancestry's UK, British Army World War I Pension Records 1914-1920 are Army / Military records; they are servic...

The film strip view - if it works like Ancestry - should be a big help to get back and forth quickly. However, I did find an oddity last night with Passenger Lists. I was documenting my first GI Bride and was able to use the filmstrip to get to the List header straight off ( Queen Mary no less). But...

... A certificate is a 'Certified copy of an entry of birth/marriage/death' and has legal standing as proof that the event took place ... An image from a page in a B/M/D register contains the same information but is not certified as a true copy. ... That's true, though as you say, it's not really i...

Yeah - unless you have a laptop screen, in which case the lower 25% of the viewport is covered by what I'll call the filmstrip, which you can't switch off!

Adrian, I think there is a distinction between a marriage record and a marriage certificate. A marriage record is simply that, a record of a marriage having taken place. ... A marriage certificate, however, is primary evidence of an actual marriage ceremony having occured at a specific date and pla...

Lorna - I think that you must be right with the idea that banns constitute permission. I was thinking as I read Rebecca Probert on permissions that she was only talking about licenses but failed to wonder why she hadn't mentioned banns.

... If, say. a baptismal register happens to give a date of birth as well as baptism it is easy to create another event for the same individual and use the Copy/Paste Citation facility in FH. ... as soon as I use the source and fill the citation fields FH changes the title of the source to person s...

Sounds like a question for Rebecca Probert.... Her Marriage Law for Genealogists , 1st edition, p121, appears to suggest that minors could obtain a licence by swearing to have parental consent . It's not quite that simple by the way, but this does suggest a way out: "Honest guv, I've got consent fro...

One of the distinct problems with even looking at the stuff by Elizabeth Shown Mills (for whom I have a huge amount of respect, by the way), is that we (the UK and the USA) are "divided by a common tongue" and what has a clear meaning to someone over there is - a puzzlement at best over here. Like "...

... So there no longer seems to be any distinction between a source and a citation ... The distinction between what's in a source-record and what's in a citation element is laid down in the GEDCOM specification so there is still a distinction - things like the primary / secondary / etc, assessment ...

For what it's worth, this is my basic practice. The census image results in the creation of a source-record for the census. I create census events for each of the (relevant) people in the household. I then create additional residence, occupation, etc, attributes for each of the (relevant) people. Al...

... I did find it strange that all of the Essentials/Advanced source templates were method 1 only, especially given the focus of the Advanced templates (being derived from Evidence Explained, as far as I can tell). ... It may or may not be useful to understand that Evidence Explained (at least as f...

Yes - I've just confirmed my impression - "Effects £543; Resworn £437" (truncating actual values). This is part of one entry in the England & Wales Probate Calendar. Also, I have a chap who died in India abut 1804 - the India Office files make it clear when the probate events were but the accounts f...

I put the valuation into a separate fact because I'm sure that I've seen a revaluation that did not appear to generate another probate event in the Calendar. It may just be a point of preference because you could decide that an updated valuation should be regarded as another probate event.

The lack of Ancestry & FamilySearch integration is simply unacceptable in this day and age. ... It's not about "hints," it's about keeping your data synchronized, with the maximum fidelity, across multiple platforms with the minimum effort. Unfortunately, your desire for FamilySearch integration sh...