Family Historian User Group

I've played around a bit more with TMG. There seems to be essentially only two ways of creating a "coupling" - either by Add Person and specifying wife or husband - which automatically creates a Standard Marriage Tag - or by creating a TMG Marriage Group tag which cites them both as Principals. It's...

Well, there seems to be something that causes FH to NOT form a spouse/partnership coupling for some TMG couplings that DO manifest themselves as FAM entries if I do a TMG GEDCOM export. THAT was the problem I was trying to focus on, because it seemed to me that if FH wasn't creating the coupling the...

I believe so, but I want to do some more work to verify that and also determine how and in what circumstances it occurs. This is why I originally asked if it was known how FH determines if two persons are a couple. I pointed out then that TMG presents them as a couple on its Family and Tree views AN...

Now that you mention it, I did pilot this migration last year on V6.2, at which time my notes on that activity suggest that the Marr-??? TMG tags were indeed correctly mapping to Individual or Family FH facts as appropriate. I have been assuming that my notes were incorrect or out-of-date for some r...

Hi, I'm still slowly working through the import of a TMG (8.08) project, dealing with an unfortunate number of custom TMG tags. One of these tags is a "Marr-???" tag intended to represent a "possible" marriage event. This tag is defined on TMG as Tag Group: Marriage GEDCOM export: 1 EVEN 2 TYPE Marr...

Sigh. There used to be a time when I could read a 400 page manual cover to cover, and tap into all the knowledge therein without further ado. Sadly, with age, comes not only experience, but also the need to read such manuals more than once before it all sinks in. I did read the FH Guide (V5) in its ...

The Facts Tab listing is likely to be my first/main port of call for reviewing the information associated with an individual, being an at-a-glance chronological summary of most such information. I'm finding the ability to add {note} to most, if not all, facts on that listing very useful. If a signif...

Well, I didn't expect that. I was using a multi-line note for the test, so had given myself no chance of seeing the unconditional spousal entry at the end. Shortening the note did indeed bring it into view. Offhand, I can't see how to compose a Marriage Fact Tab Listings template for note inclusion ...

Thanks, Mike, Have I understood you correctly when you said that you've found that the spouse name is unconditionally displayed whatever the Template ? What I've found is the following, using, Marriage - The Standard FH Fact , and Marr-??? - A custom Family Fact imported from TMG With no Override Te...

If I create an override template for an Individual Fact Type Facts tab Listing (via Fact Definition ... Advanced ...), any {individual} insertion code I put into the template is ignored on output. I can understand the reason for suppressing individual's name in default sentences for those listings, ...

OK. To test this out, * I took 3 TMG Tag Types ( Note-TMG , NoWorkDone , & Task ) which all had TMG GEDCOM export as Tag: NOTE * I changed all 3 to TMG GEDCOM export 1 EVEN 2 TYPE < Note-TMG, NoWorkDone, Task > * I exported the GEDCOM from TMG , and reimported the database into FH * I checked the Ta...

Thanks, Mike. In the case in question, it's going to be different facts as you suggested.

If TMG Custom Tags (e.g. Task ) are imported with both 1 and 2 (partnered) principal persons, FH shows both Individual AND Family Fact Types of the same name (as per the Fact Types dialog). If I edit these, FH prompts me to create FH Custom Fact Types ( Individual and Family ) of the same name, and ...

Did I remember to close TMG each time? Well, I thing I did, but I can't be sure, so I thought it might be informative to repeat the tests with rather more rigour. So ... * Running TMG 8.08 , FH 6.2.7 * On TMG , when initially created, GEDCOM codes for Custom Anecdote and Event-Misc tags were defined...

No effect on FH , in that FH still imported both Event-Misc tags and Anecdote tags as Events . On the other hand, TMG no longer exported them in GEDCOM ! Also, earlier today, I modified a TMG Custom Tag Type definition for Note to have label Diary and GEDCOM 1 EVEN 2 TYPE Diary . Although the tags w...

Well, I've experimented with a couple of other angles, such as slipping the TMG Custom Attributes through under the guise of currently unused FH Standard Attributes (such as Religion ). That handled one such attribute value correctly, but I don't think there's enough such unused Attributes for the j...

Planning/Trialing TMG (8.08) direct import to FH ... How does FH 6.2 choose between importing a TMG Custom Tag as an Attribute or as an Event? Or does it? I have a number of TMG Custom Tags (including Anecdote, Event-Misc, and, confusingly, Note) which would ideally be imported as Attribute Facts, w...

My goodness! Just been browsing through your Guides and Forums, and it's a delight to see such thorough documentation. It almost brings tears to this old software developer's eyes ... Thanks for the references and I shall forge on ...

Hi. I'm evaluating FH V6.2 (trial copy) for migration from TMG, distinctly interested in FH V7 ... and running on Windows 10. I'm currently experimenting with customizing FH to cope with some personalized TMG Tags, and also to support ToDo Lists as described in how_to:to-do_list_attribute|> To-Do Li...