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Thanks, Mike - that sounds like a feasible approach. I would envisage this being an occasional operation, for special purposes, such as distribution to relatives, rather than 'day to day' work so running on a copy of the project would be fine. Just a word on the motivation for this. I saw it intiall...

The concept is very simple but I can imagine there are issues in achieving it. I want to produce a diagram that would represent 'the present' at that date. E.g., if I choose say, 2 April 1911, then the diagram would represent only events up to that point, no individuals born after that date appear, ...

Dear All

Apologies if this is covered already somewhere but I couldn't find anything...

Is there a straightforward way of producing a diagram (say, all descendants) where there is no information after a certain date, including anybody born after that date?

Thanks.

Anthony

Thanks for the responses. The term 'Nationality' can have different shades of meaning these days, but looking at the original Canadian census forms, it seems clear that for 1901-1921, 'Nationality' on the census means nationality in the sense of citizenship and 'Origin' means racial or cultural orig...

Having just tried the Canadian 1921 Census template from the downloads page, it appears that the 'Nationality' field from the census is creating an 'Origin' fact but the 'Origin' field is not creating a fact at all. This seems to be the same with the AS supplied 1901 and 1911 templates. This seems t...

Many thanks to all concerned. I was just concluding that I'd have to do it myself!

Anthony

I wondered if anyone had built a AS template fot the 1921 Canadian census. Thanks.

Apologies if this is obvious/ already covered somewhere. Is there an easy way of creating a new fact type based on an existing one? For example, to make a new version of a fact type with perhaps just a few differences, rather than creating it from scratch, the equivalent of a 'duplicate' or save as....

Many thanks to Jane and Mike. I tried Mike's suggestion first which worked fine, then 'bit the bullet' and, as Jane implied, wrote a simple plugin to create a repository record and then run through all the sources to link them to it. I'd not tried writing plugins before. Having a computing backgroun...

I recently acquired a gedcom file that I want to use as a basis for a new project. It has many sources already included but I wanted to mark all these as being from the original file before I checked them and added my own source information. One way that occurred to me was to create a repository tha...

It's in the box of the spouse of the descendent, presumably because it shows why they're in the diagram. Makes sense if there are multiple spouses, too.

Nick Walker said: Did the source you selected have an ID of 4? If so then this is entirely explained by a typing mistake in my code which  will only happen with source id 4! It also explains the error message which doesn't make sense as you said. Yes! Source id = 4. Perhaps I should go and buy a lo...

Nick Walker said: Hi Anthony Are you sure you've only ticked the facts that are related to the particular census entry you're interested in? ... Regards Nick Nick Yes, I used the filters to arrive at a list of census facts, one for each of the family, much as in your 'help' example. What I've just ...

I'm trying to use the 'Add Images to Existing Sources' feature with census data using 'method 2'. I get a 'you can't choose images as there is more than one selected or associated with the source' error message when I try to add the image even though there are no images already associated with the a...

I wondered if anyone knew of a method of converting a descendant list (in one of the standard formats) into a GEDCOM file. I've got a large example that it would be good to look at in FH without retyping. I did find this: http://www.ark-internet.com/products/GCU/intro.html which looked as if it woul...

Nick, there are pros and cons whichever way you do it. As you say, putting it in the registry potentially makes it harder to back up. As there is a import/export function, why not automatically write it out when the program closes? Anyway, it's no big thing and thanks for your very useful piece of s...

Thanks again, Mike.

I wonder why AS doesn't store the options file routinely along with all the other xml. At least it's better than Outlook 2007 and later which stores all the email account details only in the registry but doesn't have any import/export facility!

Anthony

Hello

Does anyone know where AS keeps the 'Options' data. It doesn't seem to be amongst the 'Settings' etc. xml. I'm trying to reinstall with my old options. Thanks.

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Sorry - I meant 'Program Data'.

Thanks Mike - problem now solved. I'd just copied over the 'Custom' subdirectories from 'Program Files', wrongly assuming that all the custom items were there. (The old disk is still there - I like to install a new OS on a new disk) I suppose it would be good to have a definitive list of where FH pu...

Hello I'm probably doing something stupid but... I've just reinstalled FH5 on a new hard disk with a new installation of Win7. Everything seems to have gone smoothly, everything seems to work, all the custom items are there except the custom tabs. Having looked through a lot of the information here,...

Yes, that's more or less ahat I've had to do. I'd hoped there might be an easier solution. It would be good if there was a 'add existing citations to new record' option.

Apologies if this is obvious / covered elsewhere but I'd be interested to know how people deal with the fact that AS deletes existing marriage citations. Generally this is undesireable but to avoid the loss seems to involve a lot of copy, paste and saving before using AS. Thanks.

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Apologies if this is already covered somewhere but I couldn't find it... Is it possible, other than manually, to merge multiple facts of the same type? As a specific example, I've generally created a new fact each time I've recorded evidence of date of birth. I'd now like to 'condense' those so that...

Jane

Thanks for that. I've just bought a copy and am about to try it out. [smile]

Anyone else have any thoughts?

Anthony