Family Historian User Group

Mike

Thanks again for the guidance. All worked OK to safely change 4237 residence events in census years to Census events and the Census Plug in now gives me a much more manageable list of just 120 Missing Census returns to locate

Thanks

Nigel

Mike

Thanks ever so much for your detailed advice. Will give it a go over the weekend so I can concentrate on it

Nigel

Mike Thanks; In reply to your queries: The associated Residence/Place data is cleaned and formatted now to be Town, County, Country; eg Ludlow, Shropshire, England. All the fuller "Address elements" or ecclesiastical Parish is dropped down into the FH Address Field,.... eg 1 High Street, L...

Mike

Thanks, for the very helpful guidance.

My dates for residence at the moment are all just plain year date of eg 1861 or 1871 etc. Do I need to find a way to convert them into eg 31 March 1861 ( or whatever I can see from Ancestry Sources is the correct day and month?

Nigel

Mike Sorry for another question, on a different topic. I see the Plugin for Missing BMD Records FAQ has a list of the factors which determine if a BMD record is missing. Is a similar list available please for the missing Census Facts Plugin? Do you have any quick hints or pointers to help me resolve...

Just thought I would offer an update for those following this thread, in case they are having similar issues. I have reported the problem to Calico, who have responded positively. They have reviewed my database and replicated the issues experienced in their offices. An update version 6.2.3 will be f...

Mike

Thanks

Nigel

Mike Thanks for the heads up, and prognosis. I did as you would expect earlier today work through the Knowledge posts I could find re importing/exporting etcbefore raising a question, and the guidance, which from memory I think included use of one of your plugins. But as much of the discussion seeme...

Hi Not sure if I should ask this question in General Usage or the Importing and Exporting thread ? If possible I would like to keep using FH as my main database, as it manages chart creation well and Calico are kindly currently looking into an issue with how FH deals with large jpg file sizes linked...

Mike
Sorry, not sure why i typed Chris!
Will report the issue to Calico
Nigel

Chris Thanks for quick reply. I think I have a solution now as below, but think that it may highlight a need for a tweak to Calico's software or an idea for a Plugin. First thing I did was eliminate any hardware issues as the cause of the large diagrams with media content not loading object images, ...

Hi I have been having similar problems as described in the earlier thread running FH on a 24 month old Windows 8 upgraded to Windows 10 laptop with 8GB RAM and loads of spare hard disc memory. Just wondered if others still having the problem and for some reassurance that I don't need a new laptop ! ...

Mike Thanks for the hints. Had not discovered a couple of the tricks. I agree entirely with the underlying principles of focusing on building a tree with multiple series of corroborating and cross refernced facts and sources with citations, wherever possible with the media attached to the facts. Am ...

Mike
Thanks for advice. Will have a look at. Sorry for delay in thanking you, am trying to resolve email incoming mail settings to allow auto updates from the FHUG as have all options selected, must be my email account blocking.

Nigel

Steve Thanks for the idea. My brain can conceive that is what I am in practice trying to do; Identifying records with gaps in them. But whilst I have in past managed to do the odd series of IFTHEN statements in MSExcel I'm not sure yet that I have enough knowledge how to follow the expression route....

Lorna

Sorry, just seen that I think it does..... forgot to open the records pane to show the smaller list

Problem solved. Thanks again

Nigel

Lorna Just noticed that the method does not actually exclude from the list created the individuals who reside within closed down (hidden from display) branches of the diagram. I can probably work round this OK just from knowledge of the surnames of the lead family branches. But just wondered if ther...

Lorna

Thanks. That's absolutely perfect... and works fine.

Thanks for quick help also.

Nigel

Hi I wonder if anyone has any advice as to best way to create... if it is possible .......a list or report of all the individuals in a specific diagram (excluding the closed down branches)? Basically I am then wanting to work through such a list of Ancestors etc to ensure I have those core persons d...

Thanks all for your suggested ways forward and reminder of benefit of attaching media to the relevant facts. I had not thought of the link to face option so will try out that on a couple of individuals as a good way forward. My main reasons for placing a link to all my media related to a specific in...

Hi, I am struggling to find a way to keep the width of pictures which auto insert in eg All relative diagram charts for printing to a reasonable width. Is their a way of doing so?..... I have found the Options setting to restrict height of pictures, but nothing on width? By way of background I want ...

Mike
Thanks
Yes I am impressed also and will buy a copy. The learning curve will i think be worth the effort. And the forum also is very helpful

Nigel

Mike Thanks for such a quick response, and really useful to understand how the background queries of the database are structured. And also the pointer as to how the Property Box default setting for pulling in Occupation data will be configurable if I keep hunting for the route in to do so. :D I have...

Hi Am looking to buy this programme rather than use FTM but am having trouble trialling the report diagrams. How can I force the diagram to only dispaly the single Occupation title that I enter in... I thinkit is called the popup individual prperty box. The Diagram field options all seem to pull up ...