Family Historian User Group

... As others have said - the term 'fact' is a very poorly chosen word - It implies "Truth", but one thing we learn very early in our family history research is that, even on original 'official' documents like marriage certificates, there can be quite a lot of fiction, both accidental and deliberat...

Jane wrote: ↑

14 May 2023 15:27

... Sub Forum List now appears top and bottom of the topics.

Thumbs up to that...

I've already raised that point with Helen but unfortunately the practicalities make it difficult. ... I do sympathise - the first time I went into the General Forum, I couldn't find the sub-forums. I presume from what you're saying that either it's not possible to reduce the number of threads per s...

I was once part of a (Facebook) forum for a well-known commercial FH website. But not for long. Someone had asked a question "The parish registers for XYZ didn't appear to be available on the site? Why not?" (Exact wording not guaranteed). The mods said "Ask the site's support team" and the thread ...

... I think if one of our users has something they want to discuss then we are helping them, even if it doesn't interest 99% of other users. These discussions are not just random ones, there is a particular reason that the discussions start. For example, if someone wants to try to understand why a ...

... Only the long heading is used. That needs to be reported to CP but first can other users confirm what I have discovered? I believe I can confirm what you say. Just in case there was an element of conditionality - the help file says something about "if that value is too long for a header or foot...

... 2 - Like some other forums I subscribe to, those who post a question should be encouraged to post again when the question has been answered to their satisfaction. The moderator then closes the thread. ... I was once part of a (Facebook) forum for a well-known commercial FH website. But not for ...

... an anally-retentive discussion about philosophical points that matter not one iota in the real world. ... The problem is that - in my opinion - there are times when "philosophy" is necessary. Suppose an OP asks which of two methods is best from the point of view of future-proofing. Short of a T...

I'll buy your proposals, Helen.

... GEDCOM allows for the NAME tag and the SURN tag to be different. ... Oh.. :o Mind you, there's a difference between NAME and SURN being "different" and NAME and SURN being contradictory, which is what I ended up with many years ago in FH, because it doesn't / didn't use SURN etc. ... Example: P...

Mark1834 wrote: ↑

08 May 2023 20:34

The GIVN and SURN tags are actually superfluous, and FH neither uses nor needs them to correctly denote the surname. ...

Not merely does it not use them, it is possible for them to get out of step with the NAME - certainly I just tried setting up a name with a different SURN and it worked fine.

That is a Record in FH terms. It's very much an application-based definition, I guess. No, it is a GEDCOM definition, with which FH claims to be 100% compliant, and other products use the same term. ... I think "No" is a bit much. I'd prefer "And". I wrote what I did because we were talking in term...

... Lorna; FH7 has such different terminology from what I'm used to seeing outside the forum. The program documentation uses "citation" to refer to something associated with a "source" (ie. a GEDCOM type of definition) The rest of the world uses a "citation" as essentially equivalent to a footnote....

... However when I clicked add Citation button for the Marriage Witness , the sources for immediately flipped back to Marriage , and I end up adding an extra source to the marriage , which I then had to remove ... I will swear this has happened to me on occasions but since it depends very much on w...

Like Helen, while I class myself as a splitter, there are many cases where I record a lumped source simply because the extra effort to split it, doesn't seem to add anything - a City Directory, for instance. A source record per entry? :o No thanks! With that in mind, I think that my attempt at a def...

... By your response; you seem to be implying that even experienced users would have substantial difficulties in suggesting videos that show at least a basic workflow that would get people started. ... I may be putting words into Helen's mouth, so feel free to regard this as my view if so, but I in...

... Wouldn't the indicator that it had been moved prompt you to modify your bookmark? ... Except that nice Mr Murphy will ensure that I only want to use the bookmark after the "shadow topic" had been removed. ... Moving stuff to a "Techno Speak" forum isn't a goer -- it would depend on subjective d...

Helen's explanation of moving threads answers my concern about saved URLs - but only for about a week. If I save a URL, it's with a view to long term usage.

I'm concerned about how people interact with the forums and the effect of some of the suggested changes. For instance, moving threads from one forum to a more specialist one. It happens now but only rarely. If some of these ideas are implemented, particularly moving complex threads to a "Techno Spea...

... It must also be recognised that even simply using some existing features can get very technically involved, so should they migrate to other subforums to hide them from new users? I'm thinking about customisations that require complex use of data references and functions such as in Queries, Text...

AdrianBruce wrote: ↑

02 May 2023 14:36

... Would "Plugin Requests" be a better title?

"Plugin Bugs & Requests"?

Rename the 'Plugin Discussions' forum to 'Plugin Programming', and use it for: Bug reporting and enhancement requests. Beta testing of enhancements, bug fixes and new plugins. The one thing that occurs to me is that if I, as a "civilian", wanted to report a plug-in bug, I wouldn't imagine that "Plu...

tatewise wrote: ↑

01 May 2023 10:36

... Adrian is wrong about getting charged.
If you set the geocoding limits within the free allowance as advised then you will never get charged. ...

Thanks - I'd forgotten that the limit could act as a functional block, rather than just advisory.

Re the big mistakes in the native Geocoder - it will probably (I hope!) be worth your while to understand the " Map Life Facts " plug-in. It uses the Google Geocoder, which normally appears more successful than the one accessed directly by FH. It is more of a pain to set up because it needs a Google...

Adrian; I believe you mentioned that you used all three tags; Census, Occupation and Residence. Could you elaborate on why you use both Census and Residence? ... Yes. Somewhat as Helen says, I get Residences from several potential sources, such as parish registers, etc, so they generate Residence "...