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... When a Project name is selected the Open Project button is enabled and perhaps the New Project button disabled. Clicking the selected Project name could deselect it and return the two buttons to their original state. With that change, the New Project button can only be invoked when no Project n...

Several options David, as you've worked out and Mike has said. My view would be that it very much depends on what you want to do with your data. Having an occupation of "Petty Officer", with a start date set to the promotion date, is perfectly feasible if you just have a couple of guys with that sor...

I'd be a touch dubious about the need for army permission to marry angle - it depends on what sort of a soldier (if any) he was at the time of the first marriage. If he was a physician in the Regular Army, then it would sound like a distinctly possible thing. But if we're going off the later referen...

My feeling is that this is not unknown - I've seen several people posting similar cases and my own 3G-GF (Thomas Pleass) married his second wife (Ann Meredith) twice - some 6 months apart (1 Jan 1828 at St. John's, Bedminster, and 15 July 1828, St. Philip & St. Jacob, Bristol). I can see nothing odd...

... It seems to me that it wouldn't be particularly difficult for a narrative report to see that all the residence records over a period of time are for the same location and combine them into a sentence such as 'between 1st May 1842 and 7th April 1898' she was living at...'. ... That would be good...

I tend to create a single fact with a date range when I'm getting several repeats of the "same" place and address - it simplifies the data by removing the repeats in favour of a single fact. That said, if the repeat covers a considerable amount of time, then I find I sometimes can't see the current ...

... technically these teacher-student relationships could be modelled in that way (with teachers as single parents as Mike suggested) Hugely difficult to envisage this, but I'm trying to think of the worst case / normal scenarios and I have this gut feeling that, although one could map the student ...

There is a "gotcha" with this, as I found when trying to locate the citations for my great-aunt's birth. How do you define an identical citation? At the moment that "Show Source Record's Citations" shows the citations as they would be if printed . Currently my (printed) Citation Details for Generic ...

I think I'd agree with Helen's approach - "Where within" is where within the source that you've consulted. "Source of the Source" describes the origin of the source that you're looking at and (to me) the "Where within" might have zero relevance to the "Source of the Source" - they're pointing at two...

... But when you say the source/citation is 'misleading' , it isn't misleading about the source and how to access it; the place named in the source may not be the place of birth, but it's definitely the place of registration ... True. As you indicate, it's possibly the psychological effect, which i...

... I'm also wondering how you've managed to add another 6 extra fields. One for "how the copy in my hand had been produced", but the other 5? Location is replaced by Event Place and Indexed Place (nett gain of 1); Creator to record the organisation responsible for creating the original entry; Cont...

... this feels to me as if you're using Source records for more than just identifying the source and where it can be found. For somebody else to access that certificate, they do not need to know the Event Place... which is (presumably) captured in the relevant Fact anyway. ... I agree. But acceptin...

Mark1834 wrote: ↑

10 Jan 2023 00:00

... It's worthy of discussion, if only to set reasonable expectation boundaries over what templates can and can't do, but I think it needs its own thread and real examples to work through.

I agree - I've set up a thread viewtopic.php?f=32&t=21427

Background - See the thread https://www.fhug.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?p=132813#p132813 I raised in that thread the topic of updating the definitions of source template fields when they are already populated in linked source records. Mark Draper's comment (which I agree with) was that the issues de...

There may be a more appropriate thread but... When updating source templates that have been used for existing source records, isn't there a bigger issue than just updating (maybe) the Source Title? Specifically, if I were to split a templated item into two or merge two into one, how are the old temp...

... Actually it covers standard fields too that users may be unaware of, c.f. Value, Cause, Descriptor, etc... So what about Fact Standard and Custom Fields or Using Standard and Custom Fields with Facts ... Re Lesser known standard fields - yes, that's very true... I think I'd go for Using Standar...

1. Re "Custom Fact Fields" - it is not immediately clear whether this relates to fields for Custom Facts or Custom Fields for all facts. Suggest ... "Adding Custom Fields to any Fact" But am I doing my usual sin of writing too much? 2. Re Source Note Field - do we need to mention that this was part ...

... Are you aware that holding the shift key down while resizing a column moves all the following columns as well so you don't have to adjust all the columns if all you are trying to do is resize one? Well I certainly wasn't aware - just tried it on a table in a Rich Text Note and it certainly work...

One take-away from recent discussions here is that if you wish to use Evidence Explained style Source Lists (known as Bibliographies in FH), then the contents of the Source Lists must appear in the Source Records and not in the Citation-specific Details. This is done in the Source Template Field Def...

I use England or Wales, never England and Wales. Although the relevant Census was described as England and Wales, apart from the earliest censuses, the forms were different. ... That's true so thanks for clarifying - my references to England & Wales really referred to the organising body - the GRO ...

The National Archives references for censuses for England & Wales ( not Scotland or Ireland) are described on https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/census-records/#11-the-national-archives-references-for-censuses So for instance HO 107/2264 folio 62 page 17 sche...

... “Burning Man” is a multi day event where participation is by a person, not an attribute of a person. ... Ah - I like that and will definitely pinch it in the future as an example of a real-world event that lasts for several days. It's pretty certain the vast majority of people would see it as a...

... It is a fine line between the event of doing something and that something becoming an a longer term addition to the individual. So the event of changing a hair color occurred on a given day or “date range”, but the hair color becomes an attribute when the color in her hair for several months or...

... Would you care to expand on your final sentence, from your posting to this thread of 16 Dec 2022 15:31? ... "Other issues" referred to the problems that ScotlandsPeople were having, as documented by Chris Paton on his Scottish Genes blog. The last report from him (that I can see) was on https:/...

So what I think you are saying Adrian, is to simply not use the Immigration or Emigration Events, but instead to create from scratch an Immigration and Emigration event ... I don't even create new Immigration or Emigration events - I just use the exiting ones but don't bother to fill in the "other"...