Family Historian User Group

Sundry minor items Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 12:11:00 +0100 Peter Bolsom asked >> How do I remove an unwanted file name from the drop down list of the 4 most recently opened files that you get when you open File ? These work the same way in many Windows applications (e.g. most versions of Microsoft Wor...

Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 11:53:33 +0100 Brian Teece wrote I've been trying to transfer source and census information across from > Pedigree but FH rejects the coding, a sample of which is given below. I'd be > grateful if you could explain where the errors are and what needs to be done > to make it ac...

Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 11:32:09 +0100 Peter Bolson mentioned the problem he has with Notes records generated by Generations version 6.0. He sent me an example of it. The problem in a nutshell is that this version of Generations is generating invalid and incorrect GEDCOM for Notes records. It appears...

Printing the manual Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 10:00:42 +0100 Lesley, just a thought, but is your version of Acrobat Reader an old one? If its any earlier than 5.0, I would recommend upgrading it to 5.0, which you can do by following the usual installation instructions (see the ReadMe file, in the Famil...

Locating 'star-burst' fields Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 11:16:13 +0100 John Hanson asked if there was an easy way of locating 'star-burst' tags (aka 'sun-burst' tags - i.e. tags that Family Historian has loaded and treated as text fields because it doesn't recognise them). Here's one way of doing it... ...

Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:31:10 +0100 Jim Winfrey ask how strictly FH follows the gedcom 5.5 definition. Family Historian supports all GEDCOM 5.5 'tags' in all occurrences of use (this is what we mean when we talk about F.H. being '100% GEDCOM complete'). A 'tag', in GEDCOM terms, represents an item...

Custom Queries, GEDCOM version, and a tip Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 10:41:03 +0100 Colin Moretti asked whether it was possible a custom query which will show 'a 2-column list for a given individual with each residence entry on a separate line'. The answer unfortunately is No. The output generated by qu...

Chart dates and non-standard GEDCOM Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 12:43:37 +0100 David Meredith wrote: >> dates subject to a 'Before' - Between' - 'After' will not appear on screen charts on my system. Little bit of background. When you refer to an item of data in Family Historian, an expression is created...

Avoiding Page Boundaries, Laptop Zooming, Queries, Unicode, Same Sex Relationships, and other stuff... Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 12:30:19 +0100 John Hulver wrote: >> HELP...........Despite setting 'Avoid page boundaries' the lower parts of the tree are printed across the horizontal joins am I doing som...

Subject: Divorcees, Source References, and other things... Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 12:58:44 +0100 Neil and Viv Porteus wrote: >> When running a Simple Query - All Relatives, the return shows divorced spouses as 'husband/wife'. ... for reports based on 'self' I would have expected ex-spouses to be dis...

Custom query to count ancestors using a given Christian name Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 12:24:22 +0100 I said a while ago that I might send out the odd tip, when things got a bit quiet.  Here's another. Douglas Maydew sent me an email asking how to put together a query that will give you a count of all ...

Surnames in capitals and other issues... Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 10:40:24 +0100 Various people have comment on the fact that the Family Historian manual suggests that you don't enter surnames in capitals. I'm afraid that that was just me being opinionated - you should feel completely free to continue...

Re. First Impressions Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 10:35:49 +0100 Fred Rump has a file with lots of rejections. Fred, the reason why John Hanson asked what file produced your GEDCOM is that the problem usually is that there is a mistake in the GEDCOM somewhere, and its often easier to work out what the mis...

How to display a record id in a diagram Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 10:16:42 +0100 Things have been quiet on the mailing list, recently. That's not necessarily a bad thing. But please don't be put off sending in questions or thoughts, just because nobody else has done so for a while. However, it occurred...

Subject: Announcement: Free upgrade to version 2.1 Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 10:39:47 +0100 Following the discussions of last week, we have given more thought to the issues people have raised. As I said in my 'Some Comments' email, we accept that what we take to be the basic criticism, is a valid one. ...

I've been away for a few days and only got back on Wednesday, so have spent a little while reading through the recent batch of emails and thinking about them. It seems to me that quite a few people have some very strong messages that they want me to clearly understand, so perhaps I should feed back ...

Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 01:57:31 +0100 Peter Bolsom wrote: >> To give an example - I have a existing Joseph F with a spouse Sarah ??? and several children and their descendants. I have now discovered that Sarah ??? is in fact Sarah F who is also already on the tree. If I click on 'link to existing spo...

Subject: [FHU] GEDCOMS Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 09:28:32 +0100 Andrew Hough in an email on 4/6/02 says that Family Historian has converted tags in the following format 1 OCCU Clerk 2 DATE Jan 1917 2 PLAC 48 Gozzard Street, Bilston into something like this 1 EVEN Clerk 2 TYPE Occupation 2 DATE January 1...

Welcome all to the Family Historian Users Mailing List. This list is very new and has not yet shown much activity, but I hope it will now. I have just today emailed a large number of people who had expressed interest in subscribing to this list, to tell them that it is now running, and already I can...

Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 10:33:07 +0100 We have discovered a Family Historian bug which we think you should be aware of. It occurs in Notes and Addresses. You can have an @ char in the first 240 characters of the first paragraph of a Note or Address, without problems. But if it occurs any later than th...