Family Historian User Group

... Adrian, as Mark explained, if you open that Project in FH again and Save, then the 1 DEAT Y form is created. The 'bug' only lasts for one Save and Open FH session. ... Yes - I've got the "Y" now. I think the first time I reopened it, I hadn't made any update before closing and so didn't have th...

This is an extract of Mary (Dowling) in the Sample Project "before" my experiments 0 @I84@ INDI 1 NAME Mary /(Dowling)/ 2 SOUR @S27@ 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE CAL 1867 2 PLAC Kirkwall,Orkney, Scotland 2 SOUR @S27@ ... 1 OCCU fisherwife 2 DATE 31 MAR 1901 2 PLAC Kirkwall,Orkney, Scotland 2 NOTE Employer,...

I do find the auto reversion useful after I've been fine-tuning the display (aka messing about ) - especially if the display alteration is unintended.

Where are you getting that from because I'm not seeing it in FreeBMD?

I succumbed - one of my long-standing mysteries is a Frank Taylor who appears as an 8-year-old in the 1891 census. He's living in my GG-GM's household and is just described as her grandson. Similar in 1901 and 1911, just adding 10y each time. Unfortunately, he's b Newton Heath in the 1st census and ...

I know that I once wanted to clone Fact Type A (say) to produce a similar but not identical Fact Type A-Dash and I got bored copying everything - narrative sentences, witness sentences and and and... I think I did contemplate editing the relevant files but quickly came to the conclusion that I'd spe...

This actually isn't that important but I've got it into my head that I was once able to alter it but now can't find any such option. See the Automatic Source Citation Pane below: Screenshot 2023-07-05 220011.jpg The item labelled Source , containing "Miss Barclay Bruce...", appears to be the (Full) ...

I couldn't suppress Marriage Banns as a fact without it automatically disappearing from the Add Fact list, so that was my idea out of the window.

Does the no-entry sign actually do what it says on the tin and stop you using it? If so, what's the error message?

... In the case where a couple has a second wedding, ... I just create two MARR events with MARR.TYPE = Civil and Religious or Religious and Renewed. No custom events. Interesting. I could probably make more use of TYPE for GEDCOM standard events / attributes. A quick survey of my data suggests tha...

Forgive my ignorance, what is the difference between a “birth registration” and other types of birth sources? A birth source can be (but is not limited to) certificates, church registries, bible entries, census entries, letters, government documents. The birth “fact” is designed to expose informati...

A quick experiment suggests that setting Eliza Jane with a normal space as the Given Name Used will use that double-barrelled name instead of just Eliza in Reports. ... So it does - thanks very much. I suspect I would never have tried that - just too literal-minded. Nor would I have looked in the H...

Every once in a while, I find a name like "Eliza Jane" where I become convinced (rightly or wrongly) that said individual was known as "Eliza Jane" in daily life and not as "Eliza". Reports and "stuff" will normally refer to "Eliza Jane Smith" (or whoever) as "Eliza". Unless, that is, you do what I ...

... I have a divorce document that is 14 pages long. I wanted to transcribe the document and therefore separate pages within the Source text to reflect the document If you want a transcription that "looks like" the original, I'd suggest that you do it in a word processor and then print it onto a PD...

Jane wrote: ↑

14 Jun 2023 17:09

... I have not played with printer driver code.

The fact that you know what it's called is worthy!

... What concerns me is the fact that the PC and the laptop have different user names. Microsoft help says that OneDrive "expects" the user name to be the same on both machines (so not "requires"). However, having different names does raise the question in my mind as to whether the two computers ar...

Yup - I just commented at 10:55pm on today's date. It is still daylight outside and no sign of a TARDIS... (A long way of saying that my local comment time was 16:55)

OK then

Thumbs up!

Err - surely you can't include Citation Level items in the Record Title of a Source Record, given that there are potentially many different values of that Citation Level item for the one Source Record? Or am I missing something?

"longer, multi-line tips"?

Yes, I am liable to write lengthy text in one!

... BTW Familysearch has keep me logged in for next 14 days, but sadly it doesn’t work for me :roll: It may depend on what you expect "keep me logged in" to do. What happens for me is that I have to hit the "Login" "button" every day (but only once a day?) but the "Login" "button" takes me straight...

ColeValleyGirl wrote: ↑

02 Jun 2023 14:05

I'm not ignoring this discussion, but need to consider how best to use the material being generated.

Absolutely agree...

Background - some users of FH organise their place-names to put all countries, etc. in the same "column" (where a column is defined by commas). When I tried this, I immediately ran into problems trying to enter a place-name of "Australia" (say) against an event because I could never remember whethe...

In response to Mark's categorisation - I suggest, as the OP - that this item is closed because Mike Tate's suggestion of using "GetLabelledText" to handle places-names beginning with "The", resolved the specific use-case that started me on this thread. The 2nd specific use-case of "How do I spell 'M...

Just responding to Mark Draper's classification, I would summarise now this proposal to be ( in summary ): "Proposal: Take the Source Record / Cog Wheel / "Show Source Record's Citations in Result Window" function; create a new icon at the top of the Source Record property box for it, and remove it ...