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... Is there mileage in considering whether this issue could be mitigated by being able to filter not just on "Name" but also on "Name Parts"? ... Very possibly - however, we still need to ponder how complex names need to be parcelled up when submitting queries to FMP (say) to find hints. PS - I ha...

... I can only speak here about Norwegian tradition, where before 1923 patronymic names (Jonhannesson) was not a surname, but after 1923 it was a surname. I’m sure that this was the case elsewhere but only a historical research session would uncover the time this transition occurred. ... Yes indeed...

... But I believe that in the "Norwegian" situation it is important to keep the farm name in the surname field - to be able to search for families. ... Which reminds me... One of the facets about how you encode mat/patronymics, farm-names, etc, etc, is how you want to do searching of databases else...

Before the modern period (see above), prepositions such as de, de’, degli, dei and de li were not usually part of the surname, so Lorenzo de’ Medici is indexed as Medici, Lorenzo de’. Philosophically, I find that I have a problem with this sort of statement, which is "How do they know?" Did Lorenzo...

This need to deal with major gaps where descendant families have lots of children is why my Descendant trees are set to just show target plus one generation ("Generations Down" = 2). Then I open up branches as required - but I'm not familiar with whether this might be as much hard work for the OP, b...

I would agree with Helen's identification of the reason for the creation of {inline-note} - someone was using {note} in the middle of a sentence and it wasn't coming out properly. In my personal view, the solution that CP have adopted seems the cleanest - actually make the distinction between notes ...

tatewise wrote: ↑

03 Nov 2022 22:19

Adrian, it also lets anyone use a standard Query where you cannot add the item to the righthand side!

True!

... In the box below the Fields pane, click the down arrow menu and chose Show Both in Box . Now when you select any Fields the Data Reference will appear in the box below. ... Thank you for that, Mike - I'd missed the Show Both option. If I was going to use the Query window, I'd have looked at put...

... There is within Word a Master Document feature that supposedly allows you to break down your document into individual chapters, but I have had endless problems getting this to work and it can destroy your documents. I believe the functionality has been deprecated in the latest version of Word, ...

I spent some time working with FamilySearch FamilyTree and with one of its support forums, GetSatisfaction. GS was a nice little community before it was "improved" to split everything over a dozen sub-communities. While in there, we found some typical themes of people (bluntly) messing up. One theme...

... I sometimes wonder with some data items whether we need (in FH & GEDCOM - so it is unlikely to happen) to be able to individually characterise data points by means of some form of associated "characterisation" field. So we could have: "Rowledge, Farnham, Surrey, England" = "Village, Town, Count...

Thanks for the insights, Trent. One nice thing about FH, is that you can copy in lat/longs in many formats, and it almost always properly corrects the format. This is great! Good point - I often use this, without thinking about it and it's worth highlighting as a neat piece of work. Re trusting the ...

... And all that, to go earlier in the chain, would need the ?RTF? ?PDF? file produced by FH to be created with styles that identified the footnotes / end-notes. I think I remember being unimpressed by the styles that FH created in its reports. ... Yes, I've tried a swift bit of experimentation and...

Jackie - it's a long time since I could make Word do this sort of thing, but I am sure that MS Word will take care of the numbering of footnotes / endnotes, because I'm fairly certain that I could paste footnoted stuff in, or cut it out and I didn't need to do any messing about with the numbers. The...

Some good stuff there, Tim - I note that it says

... army wives left at home had a small advantage in that they could claim assistance on their parish ...

I did wonder about that.

I'll just throw this in - it may be totally irrelevant. I'm currently using the plug-in Rearrange Address and Place Parts , having discovered that (a) if you select one address / place pair at a time, it'll take ages but the process is controllable, and (b) the selection is just a simple selection a...

I'm afraid I'm going to sidestep the exact question and respond as if you'd asked about the Royal Navy. It might be of interest anyway, but the terminology and framework might help searching for similar Army concepts. The Royal Navy had an Allotment Scheme (ran from 1795 to 1852) The documents are A...

For anyone (like me) who's never had to think about how to do the conversion between Julian and Gregorian calendars, the table on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar#Difference_between_Gregorian_and_Julian_calendar_dates might help. Just add to that, the Microsoft Calculator in Date Cal...

tatewise wrote: ↑

16 Oct 2022 21:13

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I don't think it is uniquely an English practice as it is in the GEDCOM specification that has US roots!

True - I suspect I was thinking English language - or that's my excuse....

Just by coincidence, I was reading an article in Wikipedia today (about Russian Battlecruisers if you must know) that used dates of the style that Teresa refers to. I think I'd seen it before but Wikipedia and Teresa illustrate that "double dating" can mean at least two things . Firstly, the English...

The cog wheel is used extensively to configure options such as appearances. In at least one case, it is used for something entirely different but still very valuable. The Property Box for a Source Record has a Cogwheel icon at the top. It gives access to various options such as Text Size and Customi...

... I spent ages explaining to my mother that the pointer on (Windows 3) would not work by dragging your finger across the screen! ... She was just ahead of her time... More seriously - I can see where HoagyM is coming from - they have a certain model of what's going on in their mind, a reasonable ...

If you really want Reports of everything in your FH Project database then use Publish > Record Detail Reports. ... Time is never wasted when looking at reports that I never use so had forgotten about, thanks. However, the wrinkle that I'd just like to add, may or may not be obvious - based on the r...

If you use a browser like Firefox you can download the add-in "Stylus" and then "edit the style" of the Ancestry pages to "hide" the bell icon - then just forget it. ... Tempting... IIRC I did something similar when the Firefox developers decided that tabs weren't really tabs (Sarcasm warning: How ...

None of the marriage records I've seen have EVER stated someone was the "best man" - and what if both witnesses are male? Which would be the "best man"? Seems a bit odd to me to include that assumption that a male witness serves as a best man and to include that statement in the sentence template. ...