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Messages - RJ_Paton

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Technical Help / Re: split screen . minimise.
« on: Monday 17 November 25 16:25 GMT (UK)  »
It seems that there are two different methods of split view
1 using Windows own built in system
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Enabling the Snap Feature (If Needed)
The Snap feature should be enabled by default in Windows 10, but if it's not working, you can check the settings:

    Go to Settings (Windows key + I) > System > Multitasking.
    Under the "Snap windows" section, ensure the main toggle switch is turned On.
    For the full "Snap Assist" experience, also ensure that "When I snap a window, show what I can snap next to it" is checked
2. Chromes new Split screen system introduced earlier this year although rather than having two separate windows open this system has two windows open inside a single Chrome Tab

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Technical Help / Re: Browser problem
« on: Wednesday 12 November 25 13:55 GMT (UK)  »
Asking Google  ;D "Does DuckDuckgo browser block Google Search Engine" it replies
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Yes, the
DuckDuckGo browser defaults to its own private search engine and actively blocks Google trackers (and others) across the web, preventing them from collecting your data, but it doesn't literally "block" the Google website itself if you type in the URL; it just ensures your activity isn't tied to you, offering privacy features beyond just search. While DuckDuckGo's search engine doesn't use Google's results, its browser stops Google's trackers, making it a strong privacy tool against Google's data collection, as noted in these DuckDuckGo help pages and Quora discussions

Although the Err_connection message is a separate matter it is possibly connected to the blocking of Googles tracking algorithms
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ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED error indicates that something is going wrong with the connection from your computer to the website, rather than with the website itself.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Abode
« on: Monday 10 November 25 23:07 GMT (UK)  »
Using the AI tool from this post by Zaphod99  you get Grosvenor Hospital.

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=894929.0

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Technical Help / Re: USB charger
« on: Monday 10 November 25 21:01 GMT (UK)  »
I was surprised by the earlier replies.  I searched for "fires wrong usb cable plug", and I suggest that you do the same.

I suggest that you read some of those articles - they refer to the dangers in using cheap knock off cables.
Try searching "can i use my usb charger to charge other devices" instead.

I can't believe that it doesn't say what it was supplied with on EVERY PLUG AND CABLE supplied with a device.  I always put a luggage tag on any USB cable and/or plug that I acquire, detailing what it came with, and reserve them for the original device.  I started doing that after discovering a cable I was using was too hot to touch, and started to melt before I found something to use to remove it.
Zaph

For some time now manufacturers have been reducing the equipment they supply with any device that requires USB charging to the extent that many now no longer even supply a cable let alone a charge plug. The argument is generally along the lines of "reducing" the amount of electrical waste in society (basically the same argument put forward in respect of one connector fits all).


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Technical Help / Re: USB charger
« on: Monday 10 November 25 15:34 GMT (UK)  »
I've just bought a rechargeable dental water flosser that doesn't have a charging plug, just a USB lead. Will it be okay for me to use this with my phone charging plug that has a USB socket? I don't want to do anything that would damage the plug but neither do I want to buy yet another plug if it's not necessary.
There shouldn't be any problems
Why do they have to keep changing these things?  :-\

Improvements in the design and function of the units and partially economics as the EU directed a single interface be used on all such devices and it is cheaper for the manufacturers to create one interface rather than different connectors for different markets.

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Technical Help / Re: Terminology - Family Historian
« on: Tuesday 04 November 25 19:01 GMT (UK)  »
Sorry I should have added that if you run the query mentioned before about finding orphans you can run the same procedure on them with the Diagram Options.

The difference between the two approaches is that the "Relationship to Root" method brings up "Orphans" and individuals not directly related to the Root Person while Orphans Query brings up only those orphan links.

I have a number of people in my database not related to me but who are related to others in the database and who are there as proof that I have the correct individual so are ones I want to keep, you may find some of those in your own files.

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Technical Help / Re: Terminology - Family Historian
« on: Tuesday 04 November 25 18:53 GMT (UK)  »
In FH if you use the records window to list all of the individuals held in the database if you have the column "relationship to Root" set up, click on this to show the relationships of everyone to the root person. the top ones should show blank if there is no direct relationship (if they don't show right click and select sort ascending).

You can then select any individual and then click on the diagram options either on Both Ancestor and Descendant or All relatives to give you a tree of the links associated with that individual.


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The Common Room / Re: 1939 Register Note
« on: Tuesday 04 November 25 10:47 GMT (UK)  »
Yes! I can see that being the case, do you know why that amendment might've been made?

The NHS used the 1939 Register as part of their records system until at least the 1960's.

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Scotland / Re: Scotland’s People - Reference 🤔
« on: Sunday 02 November 25 19:15 GMT (UK)  »
It's extremely unlikely that two entries with the same Reference Number refer to different people.
Is there any reference to an RCE ? possibly a later update from the Procurator Fiscal led to the 2nd entry or possibly a Clerical correction made after the initial recording.
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FWIW, I was thinking that it’s the same person with a birthday in late December, so there is another name (born in early January) on the same page.
Very unlikely - even though this is from the index pages the reference system is supposed to record each indiviual with a unique reference number

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