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Dave, the fact is that Date values are potentially a complex data structure and need careful handling. Qualifiers like :YEAR only work for simple Date formats. See the Help for General Topics > Date Formats that illustrates how qualifiers behave. In the case of Before and After , etc, check the Date...

Please report the problem of the lack of delete process to CP via http://www.calico-pie.com/osticket/open.php.

Yes, I did, but my wife and I retired here some years ago and have no family connections with the area.

The attached All Facts with Witness Role query will list facts where any of the first three Fact Witnesses have a Role that matches the user prompt. Select all the Fact Witness names in any one column that have a matching Role and hit the Delete key or use Edit > Delete to remove those Fact Witnesse...

Teresa, almost all changes to Source Templates should start with Tools > Source Template Definitions... There you can View/Edit... each template and use the big red X to delete Fields. Unfortunately, the usual Save and Compare/Sync with Source Template Record process does not handle deletion of Fiel...

Yes, that makes sense.
If you have a lot of those 'superfluous' Fact Witnesses, then they can be bulk deleted via a suitable custom Query.
We can advise how to build such a Query.

The FHUG Knowledge Base advice is in Family Historian Installation Problems under Error 126: DLL Maybe Missing, Corrupt or Wrong Version. As Mark says, copy the CD to a USB memory stick and install from that instead. As a matter of interest, how did you install that FH V6.2 CD on this PC originally ...

FH is flexible enough to accommodate a variety of options to suit your preference. In 20749|Replacing Witnesses with Census Facts after RM8 to FH7 Import you asked about Census shared Fact Witnesses. It is generally advised that each household member has their own Census Event instead of using share...

Apart from noticing the numbers, I have ignored them. The Extended Set has probably not been updated since it was introduced many years ago in FH V6, whereas new facts have been added to the FH V7 Fact Sets. I've not noticed any obvious features that differ between versions. I think some other custo...

John, you can more easily use the Tools > Work with Data > Addresses... command and Edit... the entries there. If you hold down the Alt key on your keyboard while you click on a Part 2 or Part 3 column heading, that will bring long Addresses to the top where you can then Edit... each one very easily.

To post screenshots see FHUG Knowledge Base Forum Usage Tips under Attachments and Taking Screenshots.

There appear to be two misnomers there! Firstly, the quoted "Superfluous sort dates..." only apply where Range Dates are used and I doubt if any Census event uses Range Dates. Secondly, there is absolutely no problem with a Sort Date of the year 3850 or 3860 . They are not "free-form dates". FH is p...

You have a valid point regarding the word 'Witness'. It is coined by FH but does confuse users. Most other products use the term 'Shared Fact' that is consistent with the _SHAR tag. Let me think about an alternative. However, did you know that in the Export Gedcom File plugin you can customise the W...

It would be helpful if you explained what you want to achieve. I guess you want to change the Place: or Address: box contents shown near the bottom of your screenshot. Do you want to remove , Hailsham, Sussex, England from the Address: box? Click within that Address: box to reveal the [...] button t...

It sounds like you're talking about the box labelled Address: at the base of the Facts tab of the Individual record Property Box. Click the [...] button to the right of that Address: box and choose Edit Address to edit the text. ( You may have to click in the Address: box to reveal the [...] button....

To open the Property Box use one of the following: Double-left-click any Source record in the list. Right-click a record and choose the Properties option at the bottom. Select a record and use the View > Properties... command. Then as you select each record in turn its details will appear in the Pro...

Sorry, but that is not a fair comparison. The only reasonable comparison is between the FH Facts tab and TNG Personal Information tab. Looking at the Property Box Main tab of a Principal in FH also tells you nothing about the facts with fact witnesses. It is not until the Facts tab is viewed that th...

The plugin creates them because that is the option you chose. It is trying to recreate the Fact Witness similar to the FH Facts tab entry for a Fact Witness. i.e. It is similar to the Principal Fact but from the Fact Witness perspective. I would prefer that TNG worked like FH and other products that...

There are two ways to perform quoting here. In the other person's posting click the double quotes ‘‘ to the right of the top right toolbar. That includes the person's name and the date of posting. Alternatively, in your reply, click the double quotes ‘‘ after U in the toolbar to get quote BBCodes. T...

No, you are not missing anything. FH V7 no longer produces that prompt. You have two alternative workarounds: Note the folder path where the GEDCOM file is exported. Use the File > Gedcom File Tasks > Open Gedcom File... command or use keyboard Ctrl+O to open that GEDCOM. Instead of the File > Expor...

So Victor, I wonder what is causing your NAME errors?

I assume you tried the commands and plugin I suggested?

Yes, that corrects the 'Name Only' fact witness case by leaving it unconverted. :D I realise the 1 ASSO conversion actually only links to the fact Principal and disregards the fact witnesses Now that I understand the strategy I have some suggestions. In the 1 EVEN 2 TYPE Ω ... Role facts why do you ...

Ancestral Sources does not customize the Citation Window field displays as that is an FH feature. Anyway, the Citation-specific Notes are shown in the Notes tab of the Citation Window. So it is only your user choice that you wish to Customize Citation Window to show those Notes on the Citation tab t...

Thank you for that. I have run the program on my test project exported for TNG with the following results. A typical fact witness link to Rec Id [I3] like this: 3 CONT Witness Role: Parent [I3] Susan Isabel DOWLING converted to the following as expected: 3 CONT Witness Role: Parent <a href=getperson...

Adrian, if you structure your Research Note records appropriately you can filter by location , etc. It is easy to identify Research Notes linked to an Individual, Family, or Source record via their Property Box Notes tab, but it is not easy to then obtain a Report listing them. These guys have impor...