Family Historian User Group

Mike Apologises for delay been a crazy weekend Yep appreciate the difference between query and records window It was more to do with the fact that the query has a null sort option and the records window doesn't When you only have the default set of columns is less of an issue and I suppose if you us...

With a large database for a one-name study which covers the whole world - 41k+ people I have a number of queries that I use be able to sort out things like missing census in say USA as opposed to UK Within a query you can set the sort order of any column to Ascending, Descending or None However if I...

Mike
Worked like a dream
Thank you so much

Mike
Thanks that worked nicely - now to fix the rest which I can do easily

The only thing that is missing from the resulting list is the User ID

Something that a number of these simple plugins seem to miss in the early versions

Is it easy to add to the result output?

Yep
Should be able to do this if someone tells me what to change

Then Jane can catch up later

Mike
Thanks for the comments

As this is one of Jane Taubman's how can I get it changed?

Mark It isn't erroring I suspect that it just isn't displaying all of the material but I would rather make sure than run it multiple times I would think something like 7 or 8 times bearing in mind where in the alphabet it has stopped As an ex programmer I never like things that don't display properly

I am trying to run Jane Taubman's Clean up Surname Capitalisation plugin When I started family history over 40 years ago Capitalising surnames was the norm. People keep saying to me that the FH help advises not to - changing 40 year habits is not easy! So I thought I would try Jane's plugin to chang...

John
Thanks for the information but having been doing it instinctively for 45 years I can't see it being an easy change for me

I will have to give it some thought and with the big database also have a chat with the trustees of the charity it is connected to

John That version works fine However, it is reporting all my surnames (This project and all of mine are old school where the surnames are all in capitals) so to me there are all OK - I would rather see the ones that aren't in capitals Now, that would be a nice feature enhancement I can live with tha...

John No Mike's idea is not the error that I can see FHUG-001.jpg This is the person that it errored on Her name entry is FHUG-002.jpg From the diagnostic report Name capitalisation and parts check - Diagnostic Report Mon 22 Apr 2024 18:41 @I39171@ NAME[1] Ella Loretta /POLLARD/ @I39171@ NAME[1].NSFX...

I just ran the query and got an error

Just realised that I posted it as a reply to the knowledgebase article rather than here

Ran for about three seconds on my database of 41000 names and got the following error message

I am running version 0.2.3 which appears to be the latest

Selected the check option and after a few second it gave the following error



With no indication as to where it is likely to be I can't correct the problem

Monumental Inscription would be better as "Gravestone" could be misleading if used for the memorial plaque inside a church

Interestingly if you search the plugin store for media (which is the term that FH uses) it doesn't show up as it talks about multimedia

You can also use the media tab in FH to filter on keywords to see where you used a specific one in the past

Nick
Thanks

Nick
I emailed you a couple of weeks ago following a discussion with Derek Heritage about a possible new template

I haven't heard anything - did you receive it?

Mike Have been using the new version of the plugin with the much reduced list of place list with great success and the ability to pre-select the places to update before calling the plugin is a great help. Mind at times creating a query to produce the list can be fun! It is often a case of - is it qu...

Mike
Sorry for the delay been busy with family
Thanks for the update and will try in out in the next couple of days and let you know

Helps to re-read before you post late at night after a busy day!

Decided that the easiest way to resolve those mystery ones is to do them manually - thankfully only about 150 or so that I have found so far!

Mike Thanks - just got in from being at daughters and had a brain wave Had been having issues trying to get the removal of what appeared to be double spaces working and getting nowhere So I copied from of them and pasted it into Word" 5h. 465,  Lewes, Sussex, England image.png As you can see wh...

Mike I am beginning to tear my hair out as I am obviously doing something wrong but can't for the life on me see what I have managed to reduce the number of place names from 49,000 plus to just over 21,000 by blanking the first parts using merging and clear as you suggested but there are still some ...

Victor I have been researching for over 40 years, have taught family history and have been lecturing on it for over 20 years and regularly talk about what you mention. Whilst I take your point it has nothing to do with the original question that I raised I am trying to sort out someone else's FH fil...

Mike
Thanks again for the great help
Looking forward to the "fix"

Have got the end of the letter B and already reduced the number of places to 44k!!

Keep up the great work