Family Historian User Group

I suspect you still have two family records (c.f. "I see Edward and Kate under parents in one block and the others children with the same parents in another block"). What I'd do, would be to show the Families tab in the Record Window, select both family records (they'll probably be adjacent if you'v...

Thanks Mike. I think I'm going to revert to my previous Residence fact(s) for each individual. Certainly worth exploring the new features in sentences, though - I've hardly started that exploration yet - the witness idea was perhaps the first attempt in that direction.

If you're saying "virtually impossible", then it really must be tricky! I had glanced at the "Witness Reporting" link before, hence my concern. However, I don't think I'd appreciated how difficult it was. I hate and detest having to hard-code occurrence numbers - it only needs one big farming family...

... But to say GEDCOM is a standard worries me (it fails any logical test of such a definition) ... Well, yes. I would have to agree - though it's all we have right now (that hobby horse is round the corner again...) Oh, and yes, you are right about 8-bit ASCII. It's just that I find it difficult t...

I'm sure I've gone round every sort of way possible to record a family's residence details. I thought I'd got a new and decent way of doing it using witnesses, but I now realise it creates more problems than it solves. So.... any suggestions please? (This should be so obvious but it ends up so clunk...

I created an "Arrival" event to cover things like this. When coupled with previous Residence facts, a Report ought to imply where the movement was from and to. The Arrival event has just the single location, of course. Note that I do not use the Immigration event (ever) for several reasons: Immigrat...

... GEDCOM, which used to have WITN (Witness) tag, up to GEDCOM 5.4, when it was removed and replaced with the ASSO (Associates) tag, to be used with a RELA (relationship) sub-tag. However with true GEDCOM stupidity, ASSO was to be used to relate people to each other, not to relate people to events...

Forgot one of your queries... I have a feeling that using your data from v6, back in v5 is non-trivial because the data has been (may have been????) converted to a version of Unicode that allows all sorts of accented characters. Not sure how you revert that without a v6 plug-in.

Comments anyone?

And "witnesses" is a concept that applies anywhere in the world. "Witnesses" is actually a poor name - I think the name suggests its origins in TMG in the recording on marriage witnesses, but it's gone way beyond that and can be used to refer to any event that has more than one participant. For inst...

For what it's worth (and I've probably said this before) the values of 0 to 3 (not 4) from the GEDCOM standard are nonsensical when applied to citations. 2 & 3 are secondary and primary. 0 & 1 are unreliable and questionable. Well, of course 2 & 3 cover all sources so there is no scope for using 0 &...

I agree that the Zoom setting is just like using a magnifying glass - or a zoom lens as you said earlier. Where it gets dodgy is when the degree of zoom means that you see the individual bits on the screen or paper that make up the letter or image. If you were to zoom in by a factor of 10 on some 10...

... If the Auto-Citation field is blank then the Sources pane field can have any value. ... Thanks Mike. I wondered afterwards if "blank matches any" was the reason (rather than only comparing some items) but was pushing on with data entry. I think the two items most likely to give rise to double e...

... I see no distortion in the text fonts or pictures. ... It's highly unlikely you'll see any distortion in pictures either on screen or in print at what is a low degree of zoom. Bitmap type pictures (e.g. photos) tend not to show distortion at low zooms. However , seeing no distortion in text whe...

I would be concerned about how the text will come out if you try to zoom it up to the larger paper. I think your zoom seems to be slightly different in the vertical and horizontal measures if I just look at the paper sizes. You may not be intending to use it like that, of course. But even if you are...

Aha - the law of press the Enter key and you will find the answer yourself - maybe. It appears that I can alter the text-from-source and the note in the yellow pane (which are blank in the auto-citation), alter a value in the event - and nothing happens. It is regarding the altered citation and the ...

From v6 onwards, auto-citation will paste the relevant citation in against any fact when it is being *modified*. I wanted it to be able to do this - but I'm getting wound up by it now! Firstly, I assume that there's no way of turning this behaviour off and just using auto-citations for new facts? Ev...

My gut feeling is that I would agree that Ancestry uses Method 2 as a matter of course. If you look at many of the American genealogists' comments about citations, sooner or later you come across the concept of a " Master Source ". Try and get a decent definition of "Master Source" - you can't. That...

... But you gain verification against known places database. ... I think many of us suspect that Ancestry's normalised place-names are no more than a list of place-names that Ancestry has scraped from some data-sources like censuses - and are therefore subject to indexers' errors, duplications and ...

Though the caveat is that David asked for census parishes and the LDS maps - so far as I know - are based on ecclesiastical parishes. But what the difference is in practice, I really don't know, other than that Mr Murphy will no doubt contrive to stick his oar into just the wrong place. Certainly th...

... the original plan had been for V6 not to display Short Titles anywhere, even in the Source Pane of the Property Box. ... Oh that would have been a deal breaker if it couldn't be configured back in as a column. My Short-titles are just that - short titles designed to identify the source-record. ...

Should I start new projects in FH to eliminate the other Mary Ann Brannan/Fallon's? Entirely up to you if you feel that entering data formally into FH would help - but personally, I usually end up just writing these alternatives up in note form in FH as a shared note record - not necessarily becaus...

I have added Wish List item Pre-selection of Source Record for Auto Source Citation pane (12458) for the auto-population.

I have not mentioned the ordering because I've not got it straight in my mind yet.

Background : In v5, if the Source-Records window was selected and a Source-Record within it was selected, then invoking the menu item for Tools / Auto Source Citations, brought up a window with the selected source-record already selected. The user "only" needed to add entry-date, where-within-sourc...

... I have a gut feeling that she lied about her age, could that be why she omitted her fathers name?... Seems unlikely to me, as omitting the father's name should only be done when the party is illegitimate. In effect, your suggestion is that to avoid a lie about her age being found out, she claim...

... So I think the answer is no, you cannot have a relational narrative report for a whole tree without having duplications, which leads to huge reports (you could then edit it in a word processor I suppose). I have tried to do what you want and have not been able to do it within FH. In fact I beli...