Victor, Yes, date & place of birth on UK Death Certificates only started in 1969. Yes, census records and all certificates are prone to errors. But the younger the person the more likely the

John forgot to explain the significance of 42 days. The law said Births had to be registered within 6 weeks (6 x 7 = 42 days). Regards, Mike Tate

Hi If I may add to the conversation, in my 30 years experience of BMD certificates I would say that any details contained therein will still need checking as in each type of certificate there can be

My best is my paternal Great Great Grandfather Henry NOYCE born in 1843 and his birth certificate from the GRO says that he is a “Girl” I tried once to get an answer from the registration district

On Tue, Feb 4, 2020, 09:40 Nina Jenkins <... ideally confirm each piece of evidence from 3 sources before trusting it totally. Even there, we have to be sensible about it - it does say, "ideally"

I must admit to being old & cynical and take the attitude that information in records is probably wrong until proved otherwise. Birth certificates and christening records should be fine but ... It has

Just a note to everyone I will read every post and reply. Thank you all for taking the time to respond. Kind regards David Potter

I think Robert’s post just about sums it up. I’ve had all of those apart from two baptisms on the same day – mine were a few years apart – but I have got an ancestor registered twice in

As I recall, a few years ago the Berks FHS published a response from a retired vicar to a similar question about the accuracy of marriage records. He said that the pressures

-- Hi all, I am pleased to be joining this group. I recently had to buy a new laptop and managed to transfer my Family Historian Projects successfully bar a few photos. However I cannot get the data

There is of course another problem with birth certificates (at least historically) When I was trying to track down a possible relative who might have been "adopted out", I was looking

>However I cannot get the data cylinder icon to show onscreen on the left of the Focus Window which seems to fill the whole screen Try View>Navigation Bar from the menu. Alternately you can open the

Hi Sheena, There is a well documented process for migrating from PC to PC in the FHUG Knowledge Base Family Historian V5 & V6 Migration

Dears Colleagues, Does anyone can confirm to me if FH 7 will have any kind of synchronization functionality with Family Search? Some application have this nowadays and I am quite interested in that

:-) He can't be the only one to have done this because - for whatever reason - I do occasionally find marriages entries in PRs that are complete apart from signatures. Obviously all filled in

<uhkh3tsccmz9@...> wrote: We have a (former?) registrar in the WDYTYA? Forum and *if* I recall correctly, the way he puts it, is that no independent proof of identity etc is required -

Following on from David’s comments I would like to make an observation about marriage in the 1990’s when I married in a Methodist Church. The minister asked my husband and I to produce ID which

Hi, This used to work perfectly, but recently when clicking on a link, all I get is a blank page in the web search window. I am wondering if something has happened since the NEW Microsoft Edge was

I am currently using Family Historian 6.2.5 on a Windows 7 PC. I need to do an install of Windows 10 that will eliminate my programs/apps. So, I will need to reinstall FH. I have my FH 5 disk and

Hi John. I made a similar error myself when registering our first son's Birth. I put the wrong place of Birth for his mother.