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Topic Last Edit Last Author Fandom has changed the help pages 00:54, 8 June 2024 Robin Patterson No heading for Contributors 00:48, 8 June 2024 Robin Patterson Tree tab not appearing on article 03:51, 1 June 2024 Robin Patterson Page move bug 03:34, 19 December 2023 Robin Patterson Searching for my hunt, Maddalena Spadaro (Branca) 03:57, 5 December 2023 Thurstan LOWE FAMILY, Capt John Low, RADM of the Winthrop Fleet 22:36, 4 December 2023 Robin Patterson Maud (Beauchamp) de Clifford relative in US 22:21, 4 December 2023 Robin Patterson Rosicrucianism 21:42, 4 December 2023 Robin Patterson Would be cool to have a list of all the cities/towns/villiages, etc in the order they were founded 21:35, 4 December 2023 Robin Patterson Arnold families of hardford, haddam & middletown, connecticut 21:10, 4 December 2023 Robin Patterson Query:Shakespear in Blayney 06:18, 14 October 2023 Thurstan Ancestors in mini-bio 22:37, 23 March 2023 Thurstan Minor edits 20:23, 11 March 2023 Thurstan Main page displayng too little 03:53, 6 October 2022 Robin Patterson Sibling, descendants and other items are not working 01:59, 25 July 2022 Robin Patterson Children's names not being hotlinks 19:06, 9 February 2022 BrandonWDoom1976 Stotter 03:42, 12 November 2021 Thurstan Footer not quite right 00:40, 2 November 2021 Thurstan Why can't I download images I loaded? 04:55, 3 October 2021 Thurstan Forms 12:32, 5 September 2021 Robin Patterson Reference for death date of Isabel Stanley 18:39, 1 August 2021 81.155.203.211 Thomas Hill (1460 - 1506) 05:42, 5 June 2021 Robin Patterson Help improve the help pages 02:00, 3 May 2021 Robin Patterson Can't edit page 23:58, 27 March 2021 Robin Patterson Bdm templates 05:46, 23 March 2021 Robin Patterson Uzziah of Judah, Coregency Period? 00:49, 14 February 2021 Robin Patterson Problem with Special : Ask 03:42, 24 December 2020 Robin Patterson Article Names for Living People: (1920) or (1920-) 08:01, 23 December 2020 Robin Patterson Namesake 07:58, 23 December 2020 Robin Patterson BCE in forms 08:34, 6 December 2020 Thurstan How to upload any svg image instead of svg.png image 22:10, 1 June 2020 Thurstan Collapse 22:49, 4 April 2020 Matthewb531 Images from the Wikimedia Foundation 02:13, 31 March 2020 Thurstan Trying to list countries of ancestry 05:12, 6 March 2020 Thurstan American date order 02:13, 3 February 2020 Thurstan I can't download useable images 20:25, 15 October 2019 Thurstan John Bradford (1745 - 1830) 19:07, 24 March 2019 73.25.96.17 John Aber of NJ married to Elizabeth Dalrymple Aber 13:15, 4 March 2019 2601:81:C300:D669:AC19:635C:27B8:C3D2 Spouse name in infobox should lead to form 05:34, 14 January 2019 Thurstan Problem when creating parent pages 05:33, 14 January 2019 Thurstan Disappearing sex symbol 12:49, 7 January 2019 Robin Patterson This text is collapsible. 20:22, 2 December 2018 Thurstan Lost Ancesters 06:33, 3 September 2018 Thurstan No ancesters fit description 01:24, 13 August 2018 Thurstan "Brick" Family 04:42, 1 August 2018 Thurstan Brick Wall Request 18:55, 11 July 2018 216.221.198.202 Spouse of Clifford Thomas Holt, (1910-1967) 08:06, 19 May 2018 Robin Patterson Notes not showing 06:06, 12 February 2018 Robin Patterson Links to Wikidata 16:15, 10 February 2018 Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) Subpage links in Form:Person 20:19, 5 January 2018 Robin Patterson Multiple spouses - display 03:42, 14 December 2017 Thurstan Tabs not appearing 08:49, 12 November 2017 Robin Patterson New "fan feed" feature 10:19, 6 September 2017 Thurstan Gujarat birth certificate 20:09, 9 August 2017 Thurstan Details: Local council office Lilieci 21:42, 25 June 2017 80.2.141.54 Year not a number 00:19, 15 April 2017 Thurstan SMW on Familypedia 05:50, 26 December 2016 Robin Patterson Add a surname 01:21, 7 December 2016 Robin Patterson Data entry without using Form:Person 01:56, 28 November 2016 Robin Patterson New User Here 21:34, 30 August 2016 Robin Patterson Children of other spouse 22:52, 3 August 2016 Thurstan Bot needed 23:20, 31 July 2016 Robin Patterson What should be added to new pages? 21:27, 2 July 2016 Robin Patterson Name in bio. 03:14, 29 June 2016 Robin Patterson My husband was blocked 19:46, 18 February 2016 Thurstan Forms error page 03:54, 9 February 2016 Thurstan Gerhard Poppo Warsing 22:46, 23 January 2016 50.130.248.126 Creating sortable tables 20:50, 21 November 2015 Thurstan Dimmitt-Hill Families book 13:47, 20 November 2015 Robin Patterson Adopted children 10:32, 20 November 2015 Robin Patterson Can't see a page I created 05:54, 12 November 2015 Robin Patterson Backtrace limit exceeded during parsing! 14:57, 28 September 2015 Robin Patterson Cannot create new pages 02:48, 30 July 2015 MainTour Articles still being protected 23:36, 16 February 2015 Thurstan Contributors 04:26, 11 October 2014 Thurstan Database error 11:33, 22 August 2014 Robin Patterson Mulsum Page 22:32, 13 June 2014 Thurstan Problem with page 22:07, 18 April 2014 Thurstan How do you contact author of a post 06:59, 30 March 2014 Robin Patterson Commas in year names 23:21, 13 November 2013 Thurstan Template:Showfacts biography 23:12, 13 November 2013 Robin Patterson Years of less than 4 digits 22:32, 13 November 2013 Robin Patterson Wasteful white space 04:18, 28 October 2013 Robin Patterson Long name 02:54, 28 October 2013 Robin Patterson Descendancy Chart Does Not Display 00:57, 28 October 2013 Robin Patterson Siblings from only one parent 11:24, 22 October 2013 Robin Patterson References 12:06, 18 October 2013 Robin Patterson Inbreeding template failures 17:35, 26 September 2013 Kirkburn Database query syntax error 08:12, 8 September 2013 Robin Patterson Unresponsive script 02:51, 8 March 2013 Robin Patterson Apostrophe in page name 10:40, 1 February 2013 Robin Patterson Converting a non-form page to an "Edit with form" page 03:15, 17 January 2013 Robin Patterson Warning: This page already exists, but it does not use this form. 02:15, 5 January 2013 Robin Patterson Animated files and Instantcommons 23:46, 4 January 2013 Robin Patterson Where is tech support? - here, looking at our problem forms 10:20, 2 January 2013 Robin Patterson Forums Extension 05:04, 26 December 2012 Robin Patterson Question marks causing problems 05:39, 24 December 2012 Robin Patterson Rename a new article 19:36, 14 December 2012 Thurstan What is the kuldevi of Sandilya gotra 06:33, 31 August 2012 42.108.185.174 SPARQL Queries of External Data 20:06, 8 April 2012 Brucewhealton Use of a photo on the WIKI 04:26, 3 April 2012 Thurstan Contact 21:51, 8 March 2012 Thurstan SMW 13:42, 3 January 2012 Robin Patterson 'Infant Son' naming conventions 06:59, 28 November 2011 Cv-s Name entered wrong (so page name is wrong)-- how do I change it 20:36, 18 July 2011 Afil Do you use the forms? 14:53, 11 May 2011 Robin Patterson Questions/Clarification re. Info. 01:16, 25 April 2011 Robin Patterson Replacing Template:Get 21:44, 23 April 2011 Thurstan Firefox 4 10:20, 31 March 2011 Robin Patterson Additional S2 children in Info template 19:50, 28 March 2011 Thurstan View My Posts/Topics 11:10, 27 February 2011 Robin Patterson Templates and Properties used 20:44, 20 February 2011 Rtol SMW ask query 18:59, 3 February 2011 IcecreamKitten Records of Alsace 22:42, 30 January 2011 Robin Patterson Subpages for tree and sensor 13:10, 17 January 2011 Robin Patterson Why has my e-mail notification not been sent 12:23, 17 January 2011 Robin Patterson Page delete - Żądło-Dąbrowski z Dąbrówki h. Radwan 01:02, 15 January 2011 Robin Patterson Property names 02:01, 27 December 2010 Robin Patterson New look - uploading images 21:23, 12 December 2010 Bruce Kendall Given names - can we have a bot volunteer? 03:09, 28 October 2010 Thurstan Multilingual support problems 06:09, 24 September 2010 Thurstan Things we need 02:56, 27 August 2010 Robin Patterson Watching the Forum 02:52, 27 August 2010 Robin Patterson General genealogy help. 06:32, 15 August 2010 Robin Patterson Page deletion 04:37, 22 July 2010 Thurstan Everyone' s related to Charlemagne... 21:33, 17 July 2010 Rtol Moving images 21:25, 27 June 2010 Lanica '''Warning:''' More than one default form is defined for this page." 04:15, 22 June 2010 Robin Patterson Login Troubles 14:26, 21 June 2010 Robin Patterson Page move mistake 22:01, 20 June 2010 Animebill API and Googlemaps 12:13, 20 June 2010 Rtol Quote marks no good in spouse name? 00:58, 20 June 2010 Robin Patterson My mistake: Minneapolis 14:26, 13 June 2010 Robin Patterson Problem with new person form 12:45, 10 June 2010 Robin Patterson Problem creating sensor page 13:56, 1 June 2010 Robin Patterson No such special page 05:07, 31 May 2010 Robin Patterson Adding Second Spouse 05:28, 19 May 2010 Robin Patterson Category creation 23:47, 2 May 2010 Lanica MIME Type 13:18, 29 April 2010 Lanica Adding birth and death dates using Gramps 12:35, 28 April 2010 Robin Patterson Creating page with similar sounding name 12:31, 28 April 2010 Robin Patterson Problem updating sensor page 02:10, 22 April 2010 Robin Patterson Links for People Pages 05:46, 1 April 2010 Robin Patterson New big problems with forms 12:45, 29 March 2010 Robin Patterson Sorry if a mess is created 02:51, 28 March 2010 99.9.183.79 Switching to Advanced Form 12:27, 7 March 2010 Robin Patterson Facts but no article 04:51, 13 February 2010 Robin Patterson Problem with pictures 16:20, 9 February 2010 DennisDoty Site Issues 00:20, 17 August 2009 Phlox Offspring box width 07:13, 25 July 2009 Phlox Ahnentafel Glitch 07:07, 12 July 2009 Thurstan Problems with info templates 01:13, 4 July 2009 Phlox Broken boxes and links 17:38, 2 July 2009 Phlox Database problem 08:18, 29 June 2009 Robin Patterson New? Info Page Issues 05:32, 29 June 2009 Elrondlair Ads covering bottom of page content 05:30, 22 June 2009 Robin Patterson Doubled Tabs 03:27, 27 May 2009 Thurstan Sources to ancestry.com 13:12, 10 May 2009 Robin Patterson Delete page created in error 03:47, 6 May 2009 Robin Patterson Adding new surname to category list 17:27, 3 May 2009 Leahkleylein Are there plans for further modifications of the info templates? 08:44, 30 April 2009 Phlox Margarete Mary Smith (1903-c1940) 00:48, 28 April 2009 Animebill Wikipedia Reference template 11:16, 27 April 2009 Robin Patterson Licensing of old family photos? 02:22, 27 April 2009 Phlox Info pages descendancy list? 05:24, 22 April 2009 Robin Patterson Earl F. Hunsicker (1897-1968)/info 01:30, 18 April 2009 Robin Patterson Help - Trying to figure the info pages 01:27, 18 April 2009 Robin Patterson Not sure what I did, Info page help please 05:07, 17 April 2009 Elrondlair Problem with info page layout 11:35, 30 March 2009 DennisDoty Standardising "year" articles 16:14, 8 March 2009 Bill Willis Approximate dates - decades, etc 13:31, 22 February 2009 Rtol Names in non-latin script 08:05, 2 January 2009 Robin Patterson Is this wiki a place to keep transcriptions? 08:07, 1 January 2009 Robin Patterson Bessie Thomas Achen 09:56, 2 November 2008 Robin Patterson Getting familiar with the county-related categories and their new templates 05:43, 29 October 2008 Robin Patterson Dead-end pages 03:27, 26 August 2008 Robin Patterson Template:Infobox Country 15:27, 2 August 2008 Robin Patterson Wish to go bye bye 17:13, 22 July 2008 Fleet Lived in Ayr 14:49, 21 June 2008 86.46.73.9 Home page doesn't display properly 06:01, 4 June 2008 Robin Patterson Displaying children info of second spouse from /info page 22:42, 28 May 2008 AMK152 More showinfo children template problems 22:54, 30 December 2007 Phlox Tutorial: Help for users getting started 03:10, 22 December 2007 AMK152 Referencing the Forum 14:45, 17 December 2007 AMK152 Link to a section of a page 14:45, 17 December 2007 AMK152 Interwiki links 14:44, 17 December 2007 AMK152 Standardization of records 17:33, 5 October 2007 Phlox Firefox Browser not supported? 03:53, 3 July 2007 Jillaine Include dates in People page titles? 18:24, 23 June 2007 WMWillis From the Macintosh, Safari won't add external link, Foxfire will 01:35, 23 June 2007 Jandris Moving Photographs 02:30, 14 June 2007 WMWillis Creating entries 23:23, 29 May 2007 Zephyrinus Multiple image upload 16:42, 29 May 2007 WMWillis Editing GIFs 12:39, 29 May 2007 Robin Patterson HTML window 04:18, 17 April 2007 Robin Patterson AWOL Article 21:47, 3 April 2007 Sannse
