Family Historian User Group

... my point was that, many new researchers believe that they are actually only entering things that are true (a fact) ... I am in complete sympathy with the idea that people need to understand that sources may not be "true" (shock, horror!) - that sources may contain accidental or deliberate error...

You should be able to select two Source records and use the Edit > Merge/Compare Records... command. One caveat might be if they are Templated Sources do they use the same Source Template? ... Unless I've missed something, I'm concerned that there may be a lot more to this than just merging the Sou...

... Did I understand that one can turn off those sentences in the report? I might look at that. ... I believe that there are two means of suppressing sentences in narrative reports. The first is to use the code {blank} on its own as the sentence. That can be entered as the sentence for census event...

The term “fact” (as used in a lot of software) is really a misunderstanding of the process. We are not recording ‘facts’ we are recording ‘events’. We are not ‘concluding’, we are providing ‘evidence’. Based on a the evidence we assert a hypothesis that may become a fact when other collaborative ev...

When one has a Census record, it contains information that can be used to define entries for the Census, Residence and Occupation. Somehow, using all three seems slightly redundant, but I suppose there may be a reason to do so. ... I create "facts" for all three of those. Yes, there are arguments a...

The mystery deepens because I get the following coordinates using the FH Mapping tool that differ from yours ... I am not convinced that the "native" FH Geocoder behaves consistently. A couple of days ago I did some experiments about geocoding semi-garbage placenames which I mention in the post on ...

tatewise wrote: ↑

26 Apr 2023 20:47

... Adrian, I get the feeling that sometimes Google gives 'popularity' greater weight than some place name fields. i.e. Washington, USA is going to be a more 'popular' search than say Washington, UK. ...

That would be a good way of putting it, I suspect.

I pretty much only use the shorter list of Active Topics on the FHUG home page, ... Thus proving we each do things in our own way.... ;) I never use "Active Topics" because I've never been confident that "Active" means what I'd like it to mean. I use "Unread posts" - in fact, I don't even use that ...

... which parts of the place name were used / ignored. ... While many others - starting with Mike - will have got close-up to the APIs of geocoding, I'm not sure that I've yet been convinced that "parts of the place name" play a completely logical role in geocoding algorithms. The idea that a place...

... I am currently researching throughout Devon, and the amount of registers available on FMP is a refreshing change. ... You may find these links of interest if you haven't found them already. https://www.archives.swheritage.org.uk/_files/ugd/f60e4e_400c23a9185e4e99a3c529a86aaf7a14.pdf - published...

Commenting in reverse order... ... I also use Preferences to Block Refresh for Non-tentative Geocodes, so that the ones I have checked don't get accidentally changed again. Absolutely crucial that one. Especially if I've handcrafted the exact co-ords, I don't want the mapping to "improve" (not) the ...

From the Help file: ... Having said that - I don't remember quite what "Tentative" actually means. That Help file goes on to say "By default, automatic geocoding will flag a geocode as tentative if it is partial or uncertain". I'm not sure how it decides - surely it either has a geocode or not? I k...

Adrian, you would have to use the plugin that copies Source Template Records to the Source Template Definitions to in effect sync them together. OK - I'd forgotten about that one, thanks. But as I say, I could think of no good reason to clone an ST Record - in my (generic) head, working from the ST...

Gary, in the Records Window there are 12 tabs and each one holds a type of Record. I had to have a look down one particular rabbit hole - for no good reason other than to see what happened .... :o It was a little "interesting" to clone a Source Template Record, with a new Name, of course. Its Name ...

... I imagine this is less about "copyright" but more about breaching the terms of a licensing agreement. ... Part of the quote in the first post said: The records will have no photograph just a date, grave reference and other information taken from our transcript and the source will be “woowoo”. S...

The PlugIn "Clone Any Record" appears to work on Repositories as well as other records. I haven't checked all possible things that hang off Repositories though...

... I can't imagine how software would generate a range of access years. ... I presume that the current sensible way would be to hold the range of access years against the Source-Record (not the Citation) and update the item manually as required. Correct, I was using the equivalent of {access_date:...

My background is RootsMagic and I'm a lumper. I'm getting familiar with FH, but I've run into this issue with citation fields in bibliographies, in particular, an "access date." There is a rational reason to at least allow an "access date" in bibliographies when dealing with sources from the web. ....

Thanks very much for that Mike. Works fine.

It sort of looks to me like that coding is getting to the %INDI.BIRT.AGE% before the clever stuff turns "Stillborn" into zero - I found =AgeAt(%INDI%,%INDI.BIRT.DATE%) gave an answer of zero for the three that I knew of.

Jean001 wrote: ↑

20 Apr 2023 20:05

... Using Witnesses is, of course, much the best route as the data is entered once, etc ...

Absolutely!

Gents; I'm hearing two apparently different views on the subject of witnesses from two very experienced users. On the one hand, AS doesn't typically include the roles and Nick explained why. On the other, based on Mikes response, it sounds as if some people do use them. I only wish that I had a loc...

If I use the "Age" facility against the Birth event and enter "Stillborn", I can see on the All tab that the Age (under the Birth event) contains "Stillborn". How can I use that in a query to identify children who have been stillborn? If I try to test %INDI.BIRT[1].AGE% for equals "Stillborn", it tu...

Unusually for me, I applied this update immediately since I had a couple of issues - or potential issues - where I had replaced the entire sentence by {note}. Amusingly, when I checked my sentences - after all my mutterings about what a "Note" was in sentence terms - I found a couple of facts where ...

John - there's something about UIDs in the update list linked to by David. They are loaded elsewhere, which may not be what you need. Suggest you have a look at that and see if it makes sense to you.

... I expect, if I pushed the authors a bit on the point, they would say that, of course, one would consolidate similar ones to a date range or comma delimited list before publishing. Well... it would be nice if they'd tell software writers that and things could be consolidated when generated. Date...