You have two issues to handle 1. Child acquiring a new name 2. The adoption 1. New Name In the property box for the child (main tab) there are three dots and the word "more" on the right hand end of t

Within FH I tend to view a "place" as an "area" on a map, whilst an "address" is a "point" on a map. "The Ship was sunk in the Bristol Channel (Area - place), It's wreck is marked by the RMS xxxxx Wre

James Go to the Query Window and run the "Has Flag" Query (for "Living") Then with the results set, use the cog icon to select "Set Flag on Row Records" (and select "Private") That should do it. David

I'm over 60 and was educated pre-internet and did my research in libraries with a (paper) notebook and (paper) card index. I found that FH sources and citations closely matches the old paradigm that I

Presumably though Trevor you do caption your images so that you know that a Census Schedule is the 1881 Census for Huddersfield and not the 1891 one for Knowsley? I have found that for some of the Cen

Your description in the first paragraph is the standard approach for "lumpers" (like me - for census records). So that looks OK. As a lumper your are treating sources and citations in the same way as

You need to explore the wonders of the "All" tab on the properties box. In the All Tab, right click on the Name, select Add Miscellaneous and then select Associated Person. This creates a link to the

Part of the problem is that broken-engagement "couples" show as a "couple" in diagrams (albeit with the link line double dashed rather than double lined). Where people live together this is probably O

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 for a birth regi

David "Importance" can mean so many things! In terms of reliability, the nearer a record of the birth / the closer the relative, the more reliable (less likely to being miss-remembered or deliberately

I have successfully been running 99.?%? of fh functionality on Linux for almost two and a half years (specifically Lubuntu 16.04 and then 18.04 with Wine 4.0.3 - emulating Windows 7) Wine 5.0 has rece