Family Historian User Group

Who knows I may be able to help... In my TMG married women's 'other name' is recorded on Name-Marr tag. After conversion in all tab I have (example) Name = Hannah Guy, followed by Name = Hannah Burton. She was married to Clement BURTON. Therefore I think if you change your 'other' name tag to Name-M...

Yes Mike, I am willing to live with it. For clarification, for other TMG users who may be considering using FH to import their data into, is it at all possible to convert TMG entered census data into a format that DOES facilitate access to all FH many features and tools? What steps would I have to t...

Mike, thanks for the reply. There is something about this I am not understanding, but I don't want to take up valuable time with something that I seem to have fixed or worked around. I want to lay out my present situation in case others read this, but there is no need to address the issue further In...

People, the steps I take are this - Window/Log files A small pop up window opens with just one option 2021-07-05 Import Log click on file click on view. A large pop up opens with Import from TMG...... I can move and resize the Log File window, there is no minimise option What I want to do, with the ...

Thanks, yes that is what is happening now. It was NOT when I wrote the post, but I think I was putting in commas where they were not needed.

Well, I am at my very first test entry of a census. I backed up my DB and can revert to that back up as often as I need. I cannot find how to look up an address/place. My census form has a difficult to read entry. So difficult that the transcriber has not entered anything for a birth place for the w...

Good morning from Melbourne. I am mindful that I should not be clogging up a place for real work with chit chat, so I promise I will not do this again. As you were all very helpful and supportive, I want you to know I have made my final 'interim' conversion. Thanks to you. From now on I will ONLY be...

jbtapscott - You and me both. My previous post lists all the windows I have open. I did not mention the Spreadsheet that has my to do list, with cols for TMF sentence; FH sentence; TMG output; FH output as well as a comment that tells me what I need to do. Nor the Word Doc which is the txt file I ha...

Thanks, All my census tags in TMG map to CENS. I don't think any of my facts are replicated. I know the list looks odd, but all the census entries in the list are from TMG and are both active and inactive (in TMG). I have more than one tag for any given census year. Only 1 of my Census Tags in TMG f...

More information. If I add my changed fact as a new fact to any individual who does not have a 1911 census entry, my new sentence structure is used. Therefor I can confirm that my changes have been saved. The help file clearly warns that any changes I make to the sentence template in any given fact ...

Good morning. I have completed a conversion from TMG to FH. I have replaced a sentence using Tools/Fact Type/click on the fact/ cut-paste the sentence I want from a text editor (see below)/OK Looking at an individual "facts tab", the sentence has not changed, it is using the previous template. Runni...

References to Wish List in search results, put me into a 404 error, so I am posting this here in the hope a moderator will magic it over to where it should be. After an import from TMG, I am urged to check out the log file. A very good suggestion. However, having the log file open removes my ability...

Thanks everyone, I think I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. To make my focus a bit clearer, I seem to be focusing on the narrative report because that is, so far, the only way I have found to test my input. What I need to achieve at the end of this is - A way to understand the state of my...

Bugger - that really upsets my plans. Getting a memo/note attached to at least head of the house is a MUST for me. Looking at some of the web sites of people who have used FH to collate their data, it appears to me that it is possible to have such a thing, but it is of course possible the databases ...

Thanks Bill, I assumed a note to the source would only show up in the footnote (where the source is cited).

I have gone through the census portion of the new user tutorial, and I have watched the AS census youtube clips. I have searched help, and searched the forum (for --- entering text census ---). I cannot for the life of me work out where I enter extra information. I am exploring the possibility of re...

My apologies, it must have been a 'temp' setting of some sort. Between raising the issue, and getting your reply I have rebooted my system, and It is now working OK for me.

Issue - The Family Historian Window is far too sticky. Example - Within FH, I choose to save an individual Narrative Report to a text file. I get prompted with a popup - do you want to open the file? I reply, too right I do. In the background the file is opened in Notepad Tabs (my default for txt fi...

Mike - thanks for your reply. I am coming around to the idea that I can work with the data that I end up with after doing the conversion without running any plug in. Crafting my previous email to Don, meant that I needed to look closely at and compare my sentences, memos and output between the 2 app...

Don, Thank you for your reply. Would you be kind enough to expand on my 2 options please. I will state up front that I have no issue at all with spending weeks - or months even - fixing up my boiler plate sentences. It has taken me years, many years, to find and enter the data, and manipulate TMG to...

Reply to tatewise Mike, Re the 'missing' Apprenticed Tag. The fix is in your first para, but as you raised a query, I have replied at length in case it matters to you. From my POV, you can ignore everything after *******. This issue can be closed. You Said - It is possible to reveal such undefined F...

Hello again. I am progressing. I am currently comparing my TMG Tag Types to my FH Fact Types after running a conversion of a portion of my DB. I am doing this in alpha order so you will see I have not got very far!! I have a tag in TMG called Apprentice. This Fact Type does not appear in FH. (I am l...

I confirm that this was my issue. So far I have had to change my scaling back to the default in control Panel/Hardware and Sound/Display (Win7). Doing this fixes the issue. When my scaling is at 125% my 2 monitor displays are as I want. Fonts and icons are of the size I need. Making the change as re...

Tatewise - I have just checked my TMG tag type list. Each of what I called my custom census tags are mapping to GEDCOM = cens. (see attachment of tag type list for this and other configs) (note) When I set these up I copied an existing tag, then edited it. Then I copied that copy over and over for e...

I am working my way through the tutorial. I get as far as saving and opening the image, then I add the head of the house successfully. The tutorial says - Select Family Members To choose the Head of the household, enter the start of the surname (Chi) into the Find Name box above the family names, an...