Family Historian User Group

Personally I'd prefer to keep a family tree compliant with the GEDCOM standard, particularly to export the data into other programs. In this case it's hard because of two reasons: The GEDCOM 5.5.1 specification is not perfectly clear on the role of name pieces, including SPFX, the "surname pref...

David
thanks for the suggestion: it could be perfect, but in my real research there are Saved Charts in both projects, as you foreseen.

Mike
thanks for clarifications.

At the moment I see no other solution that recreate the same Charts from scratch.

After four months I'm still stuck. I have a project with a big Saved Chart. I merge this project into another and would like to keep the Saved Chart. But I found no way, as discussed in previous topic . The problem is that FH crashes trying to open the imported Saved Chart. I bought FH 5 and updated...

Three topics here: Saved charts are damaged by ids renumbering How to retain saved charts on gedcom merge FH crashes opening one particular chart (copied from the project merged just before) Try performing a Merge BUT reject all Individual tab merges. Then I suspect the imported Charts will all be O...

Thank you Jane, this plugin is very useful. I am not sure if the Family Record IDs are also stored in the Chart so that might mean they also need renumbering. A Chart handles individuals through IDs, I guess. If I modify individual IDs then reopen a Saved Chart, its appearance is changed because lin...

I'm working on two Projects (2 different gedcom files). I want to merge them with Merge/Compare File... Second Project has some Saved Chart I want to keep. I tried to copy .fhc files between Charts folder and opened after merging, but Family Historian warn me that This Family Historian chart was not...

tatewise wrote:There is no need to delete unused Tags such as ABBR, because they get automatically deleted after the Project is Saved, when it is next Opened.

How much time wasted deleting empty fields!
Thank you for this revelation.

Is it possible to personalize the primitive tags are created when add a new record? For example that "Short Title" (ABBR) in any new Source... I NEVER use it and I always have to delete it after creation of a source! Maybe the plugin "Clone Any Record" can do that (didn't try sin...

This is a little thing but make me waste a lot of time. Usually I work in "All Tab" of Property box. Often I want to add citation details in Source Pane, so in All Tab I click the source citation I'm interested in, expecting to see in Source Pane details for this citation... but in Source ...

Solution by Simon Orde: open gedcom as standalone file instead of project
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/t ... 1372764854

In Individual and Source I prefer to use 'Local Multimedia Object'. The problem occurs when I use the Merge/Compare Files... command, which converts all Local multimedia in Multimedia Records , both in current file and merged gedcom file. How can I make Family Historian leave LOCAL all multimedia wh...

Peter and Mike, thank you for clarifications. In short, 2 ways to link a multimedia file: [pre]    'Link to Multimedia Object'            'Local Multimedia Object'     MULTIMEDIA_RECORD                       MULTIMEDIA_LINK    independent record                     inside individual/source record   ...

Thank you Mike.

Individual Born: 1 Jan 2013 Died: 1 Feb 2013 in Diagram Text Scheme the function   =Timespan(%INDI.BIRT.DATE%,%INDI.DEAT.DATE%, DAYS ) writes 31 as expected. Instead   =Timespan(%INDI.BIRT.DATE%,%INDI.DEAT.DATE%, MONTHS ) doesn't write 1 , but 0 (zero)! How can I make the Timespan function write cor...

My goal is to create a gedcom file as compatible as possible with other applications. I use Family Historian because it seems reliable, but I found some difficulty using external multimedia files. Actually FH in multimedia links puts a user-defined _FILE tag 0 @O1@ OBJE 1 _FILE Mediafoo.jpg that is ...

Similarly you could add it to the of the Family for the parents Bill and Mary. This is what I was looking for. My mistake in Individual > Properties... > All : I was right-clicking on   Parents family  instead of   [X] ...of Bill and Mary Although this Source Citation does not seem to appear in any...

Where is the best place to add a Citation to a Source that demonstrate a parents-child relationship ?
Typically a source like 'John Smith son of Bill and Mary'.
The field should be a good place: it accepts Notes, and Sources to the Notes... but it doesn't accept a simple Source citation!

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Dear tatewise,
I think AGNC perfectly fits what I'm looking for.
Thank you.

I'd like to write the occupation's company name. I found in GEDCOM standard release 5.5 the tag: CORP {CORPORATE}: A name of an institution, agency, corporation, or company. I suppose to use like this: 0 @I1@ INDI 1 NAME John /Smith/ 1 OCCU manager 2 CORP Calico Pie but FH seems not to recognize it ...

thankyou tatewise!

As I understood, FH puts image in a separate OBJE record, like this: 0 @I1@ INDI  1 NAME John //  1 OBJE @O1@    2 _ASID 1 0 @O1@ OBJE  1 FORM jpeg  1 _FILE Mediajohn.JPG FH Converter moves the image into the INDI record: 0 @I1@ INDI  1 NAME John //  1 OBJE    2 FORM jpeg    2 FILE mediaXO2X-0.jpg I...

Thank you.

Diagram window > Print setup > I choose the best paper size to fit my diagram...  everything ok.   I save Diagram, I close window. When I reopen the saved chart the paper size is back to the default 4A paper size... [confused] Is there a way to save paper size settings with the chart? Thanks ID:5445

Sometimes in diagrams appear too much '90 degrees corners'... I'd like to have the option of diagonal or even curve lines between relatives, something like this http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:RelationshipChartDescendants.png thanks! http://www.fhug.org.uk/wishlist/wldisplay....