Family Historian User Group

With due respect: I have thought out and organized my research in a certain way - and it requires the source record ID numbers. My question was about the sources changing numbers when migrating from TMG to FH and how I could retain my original numbering. Mike Tate was very helpful in pointing me in ...

Thanks, Mike. That sounds like smart advice.

Don, Thanks, but I run Maintenance often as a rule in general, and have definitely run it before Direct Import and also Gedcom Import, so that is not the problem. I am in the process now of renumbering via the Record Identifier tool as suggested by Mike. It will take a while since there were not onl...

The problem is that unfortunately it does matter a great deal to me. Over many years, I have cross-referenced the actual image scans of the source records with their respective TMG source number as well as (in TMG) the TMG source numbers with the file names of the image scans (entered into the TMG C...

Gedcom import: They are missing altogether, apparently 505 total. Direct Import: The sources seem to be all there per se (FH file statistics lists 1,916 source records which is correct), but the numbers are in part wrongly assigned, i.e. some sources were given new numbers, or assigned numbers that ...

Will do, Mike. Thank you again for your patience and willingness to read through my posts. While I am an advanced user of TMG and computers, incl. basic knowledge of programming etc., this is by and large stuff I have never looked at and consequently am a bit lost. I'll check everything you listed. ...

Thank you, Mike. I did a project summary/file statistics comp and these differ quite a bit (This is for the GEDCOM import file, not the direct import). Number of people is identical, but number of source records is 1916 in TMG, and 1411 in FH. Which is not surprising because even though the highest ...

E. Wilcock, Thanks for responding. The check is quite quick: In TMG, go to your Master Source List (Tools > Master Source List). The list usually defaults to sorting alphabetically by 'Abbreviation' but that's not what you want in this case. Just click on the column heading 'Source#' and the list th...

Jane, Thank you for the tip of checking the Gedcom in a text editor. I never knew one could do that. It turns out the Gedcom file already contained the incorrectly assigned source numbers. This is just too strange. I might have to experiment with some Gedcom export settings to see if that makes a di...

I was working with my FH test file after importing from TMG (cleaned up, via direct import) when I noticed last night that apparently not all of my source records were imported: When sorting my new FH source list by Record ID, I found that individual record numbers were missing, i.e. the sources wit...

Thank you, DonF. Before posting here, I tried to search the forum accordingly but my various search terms must have not triggered this result. In any case, thanks.

Thanks, Mike. I just saw that recommendation at the bottom of my activation email. At the time, I had just clicked the activation link and not read on. My bad.

No, I had not. Thank you! This sounds interesting, I will try the suggestions mentioned in there. Thanks again.

Hi Jane, I used the Direct Import. I would have to see if a Gedcom file contains this particular field. Thank you also for pointing out the plugin, I will check it out. Actually, the values in my reference fields are references to the actual scan of the respective source (their file names), this is ...

Thank you very much, Jane. The search indeed came up empty. Do you have any suggestion as to plugins or anything else I could do? I like FH quite a bit but just checked - I have altogether almost 49,000 citations and just the thought of having to manually add these makes me extremely dizzy. Thank you!

Having used TMG for over 15 years, I am very new to FH, in fact still using the FH trial version to test it out. I was wondering if someone knows whether FH imports the TMG Reference field content found in the Citation window. If so - where does it import it to? And if not, is there any plug-in or o...