Family Historian User Group

... it seems to me that the fact notes are designed for brief one or two sentence notes (maybe I'm wrong on this?) ... Goodness no. ;) Notes can contain lengthy text, even though lots of people who write software seem not to realise it. Where else are you going to put the full details about an even...

At the risk of being thought unhelpful - isn't this proposal the wrong way round? Shouldn't Wine do what Windows does? Isn't this a flaw in Wine that needs to be fixed there? Having said that - if there were a simple fix, then rather than wait on Wine, a pragmatic alteration of FH might help . But I...

My remarks that Ancestry has bitten off more than it can chew are a non-IT person's way of saying that their current setup won't scale up any longer ... What I don't like is that if I find a place where the OCR has not worked, and it has simply skipped several lines of entries on a page, there is n...

For a couple of months now I've been having problems with ancestry.co.uk using Chrome. ... Disturbing - the other day I was reading about someone who was having problems downloading books from the FamilySearch library. Nothing happened beyond the spinning wheel / egg-timer. After some experiments, ...

... It's interesting to see a technical person admit what I feel has been intuitively obvious all along -- Ancestry, in trying to provide hints and trees and Member Connect, and suggested records, and all this other gunk which doesn't pertain to searching record collections and retrieving records, ...

If you are interested ... Simon offers 4 choices to handle same sex relationships I was interested, I did look and ... I think to understand it properly would require a cup of coffee and some experimentation. Coffee is OK but time to experiment is lacking. Still - it did remind me of that dialogue,...

"Husband could actually be either." This is exactly what FH now allows to support same sex civil partnerships, despite it being non-standard GEDCOM. Interesting - I did think of that after I'd posted. Wonder what the GEDCOM looks like? I believe we can rely on Simon to encode it within standard GED...

The Sex field restriction is probably a GEDCOM requirement Agreed - the GEDCOM 5.5 spec'n has 3 roles for individuals - Child, Husband, Wife. No space for a non-specific Parent. in addition, the family allows "Age At Event" for each of the parents - but again, one is marked Wife, the other Husband....

... does it matter that Ancestry is treated as the Source/Repository....? A bit dangerous for me to try to reply without seeing exactly how your stuff looks, or how you might be thinking of altering it to look, but here goes... Lots of people use Ancestral Sources and it may be a good idea to get t...

This is one of those 'How long is a piece of string?' questions... If the variation is minor, I leave the person's name as the 'standard' form and record the variation on the note for the event in question (e.g. 'The Baptism in the Parish Register uses the form...'). Basically I don't consider it ge...

For what it's worth, my structure for the UK is a 3 part name: - settlement, county, country. Settlement is generally whatever village, town, city, hamlet is nearest. County is the historic-county, so Widnes, e.g., is always in Lancashire, no matter when the event is. (Its administrative county has ...

Paul White said: I wasn't meaning in any way to disrespect a woman's wish not to be known by her husband's name - only that she might have been unwittingly referred to that way. ... Paul - good point about the mistake angle. Having been around the edges of various GEDCOM replacement discussions, I ...

I thought there was a wish-list item for this, or something similar, but I can't find it. I do remember discussions somewhere (I'm sure on FHUG) where the suggestion was that an additional line be created in the Individuals Record Window for each Alternate Name that someone had. The additional line ...

As far as I can see, what goes into that list is determined by the phases of the Moon, the contents of a chicken's insides and a half-eaten gazetteer. In other words - I can discern no logic. My local parish (Coppenhall, Cheshire) appears - its two townships (Monks Coppenhall and Church Coppenhall) ...

Sounds like you need to control which events the record is linked to. When you come to do the 'Add new information to your tree' against the individual, on the r.h.s. you will probably see a button 'Edit all Fields'. Ensure this is clicked so you see instead 'Close editing'. Once it's been clicked i...

I suspect you said it yourself - 'they are not strictly related'. This isn't a matter of protocol or anything silly - it's a question of what sort of diagram you've asked for. I've got a similar set-up - my 4G GM had 2 husbands. If I ask for a Descendants Diagram based on her, it shows her 2 spouses...

As Nick says, you can add a MULTIMEDIA_LINK to a SOURCE_CITATION in FH - in fact you can add multiple such links. And this is allowed by the GEDCOM 5.5 standard. As for the advantage of doing it the FTM / Ancestry way, I would agree that it has its virtues. Even a splitter like myself will occasiona...

Incidentally, the different use of 'citation' isn't the only problem I have when trying to understand their software. Some apps also refer to Master Sources . This makes no sense to me - a Source is a Source is a Source. However, I think that Master Sources are actually what I would refer to as Sour...

1. 'Where do I find the people linked to the citation?' What you can get is the people linked to the SOURCE Record. Select the Source Record, click menu item View / Record Links and you'll get a pop-up window listing the people (or families or note-records) linked to the Source-Record. 2. 'Where do ...

Yes - the GEDCOM standard does explicitly forbid *one citation* to link to *more than one event*. To expand on this.... One can copy the 'citation' several times - that's what automatic source citation does, but that's several copies of the same 'citation', not one 'citation' linked to several facts...

Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere - the search didn't show anything obvious in the first couple of pages. This arises from a posting on the Mailing List... What are people's top tips for books and sites that describe the methods we can use to do genealogy and family history that's UK-base...

I'm saying this without checking the GEDCOM manual but I suspect that CONT is always followed by a trailing space and CONC is never followed by a trailing space. So clearly(?) the space following CONT will always be there as default. Now whether or not that is necessary is a bit of a moot point, but...

Bring the image up in Ancestry. There is a SAVE button that will save the image to several places, including to the relevant person in your tree. Choose the option to save to Your Computer / Save this image to your hard drive. Then save it to wherever you want. But think carefully about where you'll...

So far as I understand it, library membership usually gives you access to the Gale collections, which are similar to, but not quite the same as, the other sites.

Mike (belated reply) Re - Narrative Reports: 'the sentence construction needs to allow any tag values to be picked up - like queries do.' The template sentence for a fact definition only allows insertion of a small number of codes. While it covers the main ones, there are missing ones - the one that...