Family Historian User Group

Thanks Mike for the very prompt response. I did close the plugin window by using the "X" button.

Mick Ralph

I have tried to run "Backup and Restore Family Historian Settings" v3.5 on my FH v7.0.18 database. The plugin backs up 1311 files and then stops with a Lua error, as below: [string "C:\ProgramData\Calico Pie\Family Historian\Pl..."]:4785: [string "C:\ProgramData\Calico Pie\Family Historian\Pl..."]:6...

Thanks to Adrian and Mark for the very rapid responses. I will look for the best deal I can find. TreeShare does work in the free version of RM7 and RM8, as I have uploaded the test database from RM to Ancestry; it is the updates I can't do without the paid-for version. Question for myself: do I val...

I have been following the KB advice (using the Munro family Sample database) in using Mark Draper's plugin "Synchronizing Your Tree With Ancestry to Exploit Hints", but have run into a problem with using ShareMerge after uploading changes to the RM database. When I try to run ShareMerge in either RM...

My initial thought is that it is just a way of getting everyone on the PRO subscription rate and thus getting more income. I will wait to see what discount (if any) they offer to existing subscribers. I may cancel at that time and see whether they then offer a reduced rate to stay as a subscriber. I...

OK, but having spotted her reply, did you know you can go back and edit your reply using the Edit post pencil icon? Mike, thanks for reminding me that I should have edited my post to acknowledge Jean's post arriving before mine. I am not very familiar with this forum software, although I am active ...

Thanks Mike.

I was typing my reply as Jean posted her response, so I didn't see that her system for storing media is not the same as mine until I had posted my message.

Mick

Would not a better idea than renaming the files be to run the plugin "Check for unlinked Media" (after running a full backup) and select the option to move the unlinked media to a separate folder. That would then leave in the Media folders the set of media which is already linked to the project and ...

Thanks very much for the guidance, Mike. I have a feeling I should have found these articles for myself. I will experiment to work out what I want to do, because, as one of the articles says, the date of registration is different from the date of birth and at a different location. Hence, a custom ev...

I have been entering some Scottish Birth Certificates where I had previously entered a birth fact in FH6. In each case I entered the father as the informant for the registration of the birth. I now find that when I save the record in AS, it creates an individual fact for the father (as I expected), ...

Thanks Mike - I thought so. A little pre-planning before starting the AS process will help to make it as efficient as possible.

Mick Ralph

Mike - I am very grateful for your detailed observations and advice. A couple of questions arising from this, if I may. When I create the first baptism in AS, the source gets the title "sibling 1 baptism ...". Then, when I Copy and paste the source in FH to create the baptism record for sibling 2, i...

Thanks Mike - I will experiment with your suggestion. Your experience and advice is very useful for those of us who haven't used the programs enough to be able to think laterally about their use. I will have to read up about the use of single sources for multiple events.

Mick Ralph

Investigating further, I now think that using a Custom Attribute of "Sibling Baptism", with a value of "{KEYPERSON}" and a local note of "{KEYPERSON} was baptised at the same time as {ASSOCPERSON}", gives the best result. This method will give a similar result to the use of the custom event, but has...

With the growing number of Parish Registers becoming available online, I have started to use AS to record these bmd sources (we have previously only used AS and its forerunner to add census data). I have several instances where a family baptised a number of children on the same day. I would like to ...