Family Historian User Group

... The key issue for most Lumpers is that almost every published citation standard includes a publication year or revision date in whatever term they use for a "Bibliography". Typically; that date is an abbreviated form of the date of publication or access that must occur in the full "Footnote". F...

Adrian, in some expressions (such as Sentence Templates, Diagram Text Schemes, and Report Heading Text) the items may be any of three types: Data Reference enclosed in % , e.g. %INDI.BIRT.DATE% Function starting with = sign, e.g. =CalcDate( ... ) Plain text that can be anything. Ah - thanks very mu...

One common misunderstanding is whether to include or exclude the leading = sign on the Function name. If the Function is NOT within the parentheses of another Function then the = sign is required. If the Function is within the parentheses then the = must be omitted. My problem with the above is tha...

My concern is that any witness may have two place and address pairs relevant to an event - the address etc where the event takes place, and the address etc where the witness is resident. Suppose W is a (real life) Witness at the wedding of X and Y and the marriage documents give the residences of al...

... Adrian's suggestion of recording an executor's address at the time of probate rather than at the time of making the will. ... Err - no, that wasn't my suggestion. I was suggesting recording the beneficaries (and appointed executors) at the time of getting probate. But the address against the pr...

I agree with Adrian, though I was mildly surprised by the scenario, to the extent that I had to double check it. I think that the reason I was surprised is that, for whatever reason, either my witness facts like that don't have any address details or they have them but they obviously belong to the p...

... It adds the information to the father's record that his identity is unknown, and that he had an illegitimate child. ... Yes, I think I was starting to incline towards that being a logical approach. ... ... The birth certificate gives a possible location clue (perhaps 9 months before the birth),...

I cite the first source I find for someone's existence against the whole record but generally that's the only time I cite a source against that whole record. I've always felt that there's an element of chicken and egg with too many citations against names. Suppose that you know someone is called Joh...

... I've always used the "Distinct Places and Addresses" approach. It may be a French thing, but it's difficult enough to get accurate geolocations for a commune without trying to locate specific buildings. ... For my UK stuff, my default process is to just put settlements into the Places and geoco...

My instinct was to include the address in privacy brackets ( [[ ]] ) - however, when I tried to produce a narrative report including an address in a source linked to that template, I found that the [[ and ]], together with the enclosed words, still printed, even though I had the report options set t...

... In v6 I used a plugin called Add Source from Template, with templates defined to include the invariant information (so, I had a template for Parish Registers from Ancestry, and another for PRs from FindMyPast, for example). The plugin only works for Generic Sources, not Templated ones, and I ha...

Gowermick wrote: ↑

04 Apr 2023 15:41

... And as far as I'm aware I have never given it my credit card details - I'd draw the line at that!

So you've never paid for an Android app? I need my CAMRA Good Beer Guide subs!

... Having worked with cross-compilers in the aerospace industry, I know first-hand just much extra work is involved in properly validating cross-compiled code. It can do some very weird things, because the target platform sometimes has vastly different interface requirements. ... Thanks Gary - it'...

ColeValleyGirl wrote: ↑

03 Apr 2023 19:30

... with fictitious references cited to support them. ...

Fictitious references??? I had hoped that references would be solid. Apparently not....

And the worry, as usual, is how people take things at face value: "Computer says so..."

Um. The current subscription only version of the AskWoody Newsletter describes a disturbing couple of examples taken from https://www.wsj.com/articles/chatgpt-libeled-me-can-i-sue-defamation-law-artificial-intelligence-cartoonist-court-lawyers-technology-14086034?st=xz3wge1o9vncdlc&reflink=desktopwe...

Seems a bit daft to me! Why can't someone set up a separate fact for travel? The use of two places is hard-coded by Calico Pie into the (standard) Emigration and Immigration facts - the second place is an extension to the GEDCOM standard. Travel isn't a standard GEDCOM fact, instead it's user defin...

Hmm - after reading, Lorna, that I went straight to my 3GGF, John Cooper, whose baptism cannot be found - the only one missing from that family of children. There is a complicated story because there is a candidate baptism but it has two fathers. Haslington in the early 1800s was that far ahead of t...

... But what if you don’t want the sentence to start a new paragraph? I've never tried that, so hadn't seen any problems with it, I'm afraid. (Very often my notes include two or more paragraphs, so I don't want to tag the first sentences on to the end of the previous fact. I only have one or two fa...

Has that been reported as a bug? I can't remember. But I will report it now, because I’ve just checked again and it’s no longer possible to get round it by supressing the sentence and letting the note take care of itself. If the sentence is supressed the note is also now supressed! (I’m sure that w...

Gary - I would suggest that in all cases, you should check on the map where the Geocoding thinks your place is. The routines used by FH seem to basically do a text based search that might miss out on any logic implied by your place-names. I've had place-names in Victoria (Australia) end up in Britis...

In FS you enter it once and it creates a two-way area to put in notes, events and sources. This is editable from either person. The only thing I find lacking is the ability to assign roles to each person. Yes, I think that your comment about the inability to assign roles goes to the crux of the mat...

... A farm could and very often did, have multiple families and homes on the property. ... Yes, I think that's an essential insight, thanks. ... Every farm in Norway has a name, usually very ancient. ... Whereas a farm in England could change its name at the drop of a hat, depending on the whims of...

... I’m actively working with the GEDCOM community to add additional ‘identity based’ tags to The Standard so that these additional location based values are entered correctly to support cultures where clan, town, farm, etc. are included in their identity. ... Sounds good if it can be done. ... Sin...

The way I read it is 5.5.1 does not allow // so FH is producing invalid GEDCOM, whereas 7.0 does allow // and no slashes. ... You could be right - I just looked at the example (which I have tutted over others doing, I confess). Arguably the "name" specification is "wrong" in that at least one part ...

... In GEDCOM there is a difference between: 1 NAME Caroline Oldsdatter // {unknown surname} vs 1 NAME Caroline Oldsdatter {no surname} ... I'm not sure I agree with that. In my copy of GEDCOM 5.5.1, page 55 starts with Examples : William Lee (given name only or surname not known) In other words, t...