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Technical Help / Re: Need an external hard drive
« on: Tuesday 03 February 15 21:20 GMT (UK)  »
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and manually moved each one of my individual family history folders over

Hello, I hope you meant copy rather than move. In computer language, move means to displace a file or folder from one place to another, whereas copy means to leave the original where it is and make a second version elsewhere.

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Technical Help / Re: Excel Spreadsheet - help with Autofill
« on: Wednesday 21 January 15 00:40 GMT (UK)  »
hello,

I think you mean AutoComplete (for one cell from a few letters) rather than AutoFill (for filling a series of cells), not that that is going to help you much.

I have just confirmed to myself my vague memories of it not working very well. Sometimes it will and sometimes it won't suggest an entry.

When it does work it will never show more than one name at a time so if you have Hunter and Huntor then typing Hun will not find anything, you will have to keep going until the final vowel.

It does work very well in Open Office spread sheets: http://www.openoffice.org/ This is free and opens Excel books without problem.

finally, as an aside back in Excel, if you place the curser at the bottom of a column and press Alt and the down Arrow together you will open a list of unique entries for that column. Letting go of the Alt key at this point allows you to scroll down the list and insert an entry into the cell you are in by pressing enter. This does not work in Open Office

good luck, falcybe

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The Lighter Side / Re: Why was a given only 1 christian name
« on: Sunday 18 January 15 22:10 GMT (UK)  »
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I'll bear in mind that the family probably had a few close friends.  ;)

Oh by the way, my great grandfather was illegitimate too, his middle name was his grandfather's Christian name.  :o

Good luck in your hunting. And which of his three or four grandfathers' name was he given lol? ::)

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The Lighter Side / Re: Why was a given only 1 christian name
« on: Sunday 18 January 15 21:56 GMT (UK)  »
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How very dare you falcybe? As if any of my ancestors would have children out of wedlock.   ;D ;D ;D

lol, actually quite a few fellow RCers have found more than just a grain of truth in middle names, including us, so investigate these extra names, they could give you useful leads.  ;D


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The Lighter Side / Re: Why was a given only 1 christian name
« on: Sunday 18 January 15 21:05 GMT (UK)  »
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Actually there was a family in the same parish with the surname Trout so presumably they were family friends.
Or even family, or even very very very good friends if the father was away at sea.....

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Technical Help / Re: Chrome based computer
« on: Saturday 03 January 15 22:28 GMT (UK)  »
What is so great about this Chrome desk top which doesn't have the specs you want, that makes you want to buy it? The advertising?  :o

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The Lighter Side / Re: Where should I leave my research folders?
« on: Monday 22 December 14 22:34 GMT (UK)  »
Thank-you Jane and a wonderful Christmas to you too, and all our friends here on RC of course. I'm off to England tomorrow on the ferry and won't be on the internet for five days; mum's is at the library and they seem to be closed Christmas day and Boxing day for some odd reason....

cheers, falcybe

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The Lighter Side / Re: Where should I leave my research folders?
« on: Monday 22 December 14 15:53 GMT (UK)  »
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I am not offended by your suggestion falcybe, but I am totally baffled and astounded by it.

I inherited a good deal of research from my grandfather over 60 years ago

I'm not surprised at anyone being baffled by my thoughts, I struggle with them too sometimes but it is my heart and not my head talking. Mind you, I sometimes wonder if it would make any difference if they (heart and head) swapped jobs.

We too inherited a lot from our grandfather, but mostly anecdotes which later proved to be true and helped in our research, and a few photographs of parish registers, some of which we still have to marry to our family or discard.

Nowadays, my sister's study and computer is like a third ministry with everything referenced, cross-referenced and happily-referenced.

When I think about it, I would be happy to pass on a bare-bones genealogy of the sort we inherited but the rest was our hobby and as I have no great worship of the past, it would not grieve me if our descendants threw out the paperwork supporting the trees.

cheers, falcybe

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The Lighter Side / Re: Multiple Same Family Baptisms, would EIGHT be some kind of a record...?
« on: Monday 22 December 14 15:33 GMT (UK)  »
 :)

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