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I thought I'd sent this post previously but its not on the board so I'm resending just in case something went wrong. Made good progress following Mike's guidance and I now have a gedcom just with ancestors, no media or media links and all source info deleted :) I am now left with the info I want to ...

Thanks Mike, just what I needed

Just taking a full backup before I start deleting anything

I'm looking to upload a gedcom file of just my ancestors with only the basic BMD info. The following is an extract of a post of many years ago on the forum of exactly what I'm looking for but the thread went cold and, of course, FH has moved on a few versions. "....which will strip a Gedcom fil...

Thanks all, That's clarified things a lot. I'll check her music hall career to see if I can pick up a Cardiff venue and see if I can pick up her second husband, CW Marriott, recorded in published notes of her that he was in the US Navy. ... 'fraid I don't have a better resolution of the photo as I a...

This is one for the photoshop sleuths and militarians. The atached photo is of Ida Barr (this was her stage name as a musical hall artiste - her birth name being Maud Barlow) with someone in Navy uniform. Two questions : Does anyone know if it is a US or British uniform. If it is US then it is possi...

Thanks all for responding to my OP. I'm learning as much from the initial replies as I am from the onging thread :) The entry for my uncle is : B Business Premises Qualification (man) O Occupational Qualification (man) So I'm not sure of the subtlety of why he qualifies by Business Premises Qualific...

In this register, my late aunt and uncle are entered under Dale Street, Liverpool followed by the wording (abode, Stoneleigh, Penketh Road (sic), Wallasey). My uncle worked in Dale Street and lived in Penkett Road, Wallasey which is on the other side of the River Mersey (probably no more than 2 mile...

A variant on Mike's suggestion You could try a search in explorer for the project startup file (mine ends in .fh_proj). That will give you the directory you require. Then open FH and in the project window, go to that directory via More Tasks/Browse for Project. Certainly that has worked for me on dr...

Fraid not. Tried the reinstall though.

I’m not a heavy user of AS but it seems worse with the addresses on the baptism tabs - and no real difference between new addresses and ones that are already there.

Just been transposing a copy of an 1859 Irish Will. The original was dictated and written down by someone else and the version I had was also handwritten - probably by the Probate Court in Belfast in the same year. The will writer in a subsequent court affidavit states "I wrote said will from t...

Tx - will try that

Normally text entry to AS is what you'd expect. ie the characters appear on the screen as quickly as I can type them. Randomly in some sessions however, the characters will start to appear /very/ slowly. So for instance, on the Residence Screen for a baptism, I might type in the placename 'Liverpool...

I tend to use Ancestral Sources for entering BMD, census, baptism and burial info from official certificates or their transcripts. AS has the option of adding other roles to the event such as witness, best man, etc.. You then have the option of finding an existing person in your FH file, adding a ne...

Everton, Lp’l (Liverpool)

Agree with ColeValleyGirl. May take 4hrs a week for a newcomer but as a refresher it takes far less time. Best part from a couple of years ago was some information on some of the NLS genealogy and map records

Thanks so much to everyone that contributed. It wasn't in much doubt that the mentioned seamans records referred to the correct Robert Major - but the icing on the cake this morning was that I found an earlier seamans record of him (dated 19 2 1919) which had confirming details of his wife, Sarah, h...

Well done Mike that seems to be it.

I’d also wrongly assumed a Donkey Man was something to do with donkeys. Turns out it is the person that greases ships engines so that ties in. I guess the number might be his merchant seaman’s number.

The following is a screenshot taken from the Personal Occcupation Column of the 1939 Register. (It belongs to Robert Major, b 5 Nov 1880, Liverpool).

I'm making no headway in trying to find out what that second line might be referring to.

Does anyone have any ideas.

Tx

Thanks ArthurK - much appreciated

I hadn't come across this before and, like buses, 2 others came along relaing to siblings of DFC

The file attach is the screenshot of the original image of the baptism of David Francis Corkhill on 16 Aug 1908 (English Roman Catholic Baptisms Transcription Record set on fmp).

There is a handwritten latin annotation on the left. Can SKS help with the translataion.

Many thanks

/arthurk/

I think you're right My mind was so focused on just letters that I forget to think about numbers

Many thanks

The attachment is from the 1851 census of Church Coppenhall, Cheshire. In the age column for William Nightingale are the initials "GW". Assuming this isn't an error, can anyone throw any light on what it might mean. (The 1861 and 1871 censuses show a consistent calculated date of birth for...

I've been having quite a few error messages over the past few days including the site 'being down for maintenance', 'Oops something isn't working please try again later', and a couple of far less frequent others. All seem to be overcome by pressing the f5 refresh button immediately which suggests wh...

Tx Mike/Helen, /MIke./ Yes I spent 90 minutes on the phone with the ISP (Tech Support IONOS). The outcome was that, apparently, there is a 256MB limit file size on their page.ini script - a limitation of the server package I'm on and I'm set at the max.. It is the processing of my gedcom file that i...

My FH gecom file is 30+MB in size and I want to upload it onto my website (ourfamilyhistory.org.uk) for it to be imported into the website software (TNG) using its php scripts. There are limitations with my ISP on processing a file above 25MB so I was thinking of splitting my gedcom in 2 using FH an...