Sue I’m sure that with Mike’s help you will recover your projects. May I suggest that you invest in a USB connected external disk drive, and when everything is back to normal you regularly make a full

An duplication is purely coincidental! I posted my question of the forum. Having done so, I then went to checked my email, only to find that an identical question had been posted here almost simultane

I've just added the same question on the FHUG form !!! I'm glad I'm not the only one who is interested in doiun this. David Dewick

Hello Neil Open the property screen for the 3rd daughter’s adoptive parents. You should see underneath the parents’ information the list of their children. To the immediate right of the date of birth

I have researched my adoptive and step parents and my biological parents, and have them all in the same project. It is quite straightforward to flag the adoptive/step parent relationship in FH so that

Intestacy rules are even more complicated (or vindictive) if you are adopted and one of your adopted parents re-marry . ☹️

Absolutely. That is how I store all my research. I don’t use a mapped drive, just the UNC (I think that’s what it is called) then I can access the files from wherever I’m working using the same path n

FindMyPast gives an RG101 reference: e.g. RG101 6303C-020-18 RJIF, which is piece, page and line number. I tend to use FMP instead of Ancestry for searching the 1939 register because of this. A note o

The answers are simple. First, the Hints system on Ancestry can be useful in finding information that might otherwise have been missed by referring me to datasets I would not normally think of searchi

Ancestry may have an algorithm for blocking access to “living people”, however, it does not take a great deal of effort (or skill) to identify them and gather a lot of information about them. I keep m

There is possibly a good reason for a step parent to adopt in that unless a will has been made, a step child does not inherit the step parent’s estate, even if this was what was intended. I lost my in