Re: [LegacyUG] Hints

2020-09-21 Thread Cathy Pinner
The issue that Chris is discovering is that the Hint icon other than on Family View or Pedigree View may be out of date. Requests for hints are only sent from Family View and Pedigree View and it looks as though the hint icon on other views has a considerable lag. I'm not sure when they are

Re: [LegacyUG] Cenotaph vs. gravestone in FAG

2020-09-21 Thread Howland Davis via LegacyUserGroup
CE:     When a National Cemetery opened in northeast Ohio, at least one veteran was moved from his local cemetery to the National Cemetery. Howland Davis -Original Message- From: CE WOOD To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Mon, Sep 21, 2020 4:55 pm Subject: [LegacyUG] Cenotaph

[LegacyUG] Cenotaph vs. gravestone in FAG

2020-09-21 Thread CE WOOD
Many FAG memorials are cenotaphs, not gravestones. People who search cemeteries find them and, not knowing the genealogy of the person, mistakenly enter it as a gravestone. FAG asks that all cenotaphs be duly marked as such on a memorial page, but many people don't follow the rule, even if

Re: [LegacyUG] Problem with Check/Repair

2020-09-21 Thread Christopher Seward Sr.
I second this idea.  I have a similar issue.  Creating a "Find A Grave Memorial" event works nicely. Ciao, Christopher On 9/21/2020 8:59 AM, Brian Kelly wrote: Richard, I would use an Event named Find A Grave for the duplicate (or for both if you wish) and enter only one in the FindaGrave

Re: [LegacyUG] Hints

2020-09-21 Thread Gillian Häkli
Hi Chris, Thank you very much though I found your post a bit hard to follow! But I think I got there in the end. So far everything's gone well since I deleted the cookies. Gillian On 21/09/2020 19:57, Chris Hill wrote: Hi Gillian You might want to read this post, which I have raised on

Re: [LegacyUG] Hints

2020-09-21 Thread Chris Hill
Hi Gillian You might want to read this post, which I have raised on the Legacy Facebook page. > I am just back to my master PC, the other was on my laptop, and still running at v339. This works with my looking at my fathers hints with no problem. Looked at my cousins hints, with

Re: [LegacyUG] Hints

2020-09-21 Thread Gillian Häkli
 Hi Brian, I've now tried many Hints following your advice, that is, deleted all cookies for fmp, and so far everything's going well. Thank you very very much. Gillian On 21/09/2020 17:08, Brian Kelly wrote: Not any kind of expert but that message looks like a problem with the web browser

Re: [LegacyUG] Hints

2020-09-21 Thread Brian Kelly
Not any kind of expert but that message looks like a problem with the web browser you are using. It is reporting an error with the findmypast web site or with the string legacy is sending to the site. Since it is reporting a bad cookie I would first try deleting all the cookies in your

Re: [LegacyUG] Problem with Check/Repair

2020-09-21 Thread Brian Kelly
Richard, I would use an Event named Find A Grave for the duplicate (or for both if you wish) and enter only one in the FindaGrave field on the Individual data screen. I have a couple of legitimate duplicates in my file as well. For one he died in WW II and is buried in a military cemetery

Re: [LegacyUG] Hints

2020-09-21 Thread Chris Hill
I have the same error with version 9.0.0.339. I updated to version 362, which I had been avoiding because if the issues with 361, and now get as far as a Loading hints display from FindMyPast which had been running for a few minutes. So it looks like the later version has the correct security

[LegacyUG] Hints

2020-09-21 Thread Gillian Häkli
Can some kind person please explain to me why I nearly always get this message when I try to look at a Hint: Sometimes, but only very rarely, I do manage to get through to findmypast to see what the hint is. Findmypast is the only site I have marked for hints.' Regards, Gillian Hakli --

Re: [LegacyUG] Problem with Check/Repair

2020-09-21 Thread sarah hughes
Sorry. I found something similar lately when there was a dispute about where a subject's father was actually buried. On Google it came up with one on FAG, but when I went there and logged in, I found that the individual seemed to have 2 different headstones in 2 different cemetaries, albeit 2

Re: [LegacyUG] Problem with Check/Repair

2020-09-21 Thread sarah hughes
On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 at 06:03, Richard Van Wasshnova < rfvanwasshn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Roberta, > My cousin, #4, has one in a military cemetery also. I aim to find out > which one he is really in but I'm not sure how to record both profiles so > that Check/Repair doesn't mess with them. > >