Family Historian User Group

arthurk,

Thanks for the info. I'm not on Facebook so wouldn't have known.

Is this a sign that Lincs to the Past is being incorporated into the Lincolnshire Archives site? They used to be separate.

Bill

Mervyn,

Thanks for the reply.

No... it was separate from the archives site. It had digitized copies of some parish records online. As far as I can tell there are no digitized copies online on the archives site.

Bill

Has anyone seen any updates on when Lincs to the Past (https://www.lincstothepast.com) will be coming back online? The last I heard was that it was supposed to come back online in early 2022, but it is still not available as far as I can see.

Thanks,
Bill

I did have hints turned on at first and did find quite a few things that way. But I upload an updated tree to Ancestry about 3 or 4 times a year and I got tired of having the hints reset each time so that I kept getting bombarded with the same ones over and over again.

Bill

Oh well... worth a try. I have hints turned off so I don't get any bell icon notifications for hints. I only turned them on for the screen print I posted.

Bill

Have you tried this? I use Ancestry.com. I don't know if Ancestry.co.uk is the same.

Go to Settings > Trees and scroll down to Hint Notifications.


Then click on the ">" next to "New hint indicator at top of page" and uncheck the options.


Bill

OK... it was the word literal that threw me. I was a COBOL programmer for about 10 years back in the 70's. We called Pic X an alphanumeric literal and Pic 9 a number. We never used the term literal with Pic 9 fields (or the word constant).

Bill

I dislike literal values (old programmer speaking) in things Hmm. On the other hand, as an old ICL1900 programmer, I did find it 98% absurd to be advised to remove the literal 3 from my software and replace it by N-3 defined as: 01 N-3 Pic 9 value 3. (Good grief - COBOL - after all these years! Won...

I misread your posting. I'm sure it can be added, but I don't really do plugins so can't help. Maybe Mike Tate will see this and indicate what it would take to add the record number.

Bill

The plugin is not in the store, it was attached to a forum post. See Fact Count (10147). That is quite awhile ago so the plugin may or may not work correctly in FH 7.

Bill

Welcome to the FHUG. Yes, this can be done if I understand you correctly. You could create a query with the information you desire and the results could then be printed out if desired. Another option would be to add these fields to the Individuals tab of the records window. This can not be printed o...

I have sent the source text for both problem censuses via email. Thanks Bill. That issue should be fixed now - see new download v7.5.3 in the first post on this thread. Hi Nick, Works great now for those two censuses. I want to thank you for adding the conversion process to AS. I had just under 105...

Hi Nick,

I have sent the source text for both problem censuses via email.

Thanks,
Bill

Hi Nick, I have run into an odd problem on two of my 1880 USA censuses. The other 75 converted with only minor corrections required. Here is an example. Notice that a lot of data is getting lumped into the first column. I can't figure out why that happened. Also, there are no column headings and the...

I'll add some extra text to the help guide about this. I assume don't use the 'Hyper-link to individual records' option that underlines each name so when you click on it in FH you are taken to that individual's record. The * column indicates to AS which column it should add the hyperlinks to. As yo...

OK... no problem. I will go ahead an make the changes to the grid. I have another question. In the help it says " It will attempt to identify a name column (identified by an asterisk * in the column header) and uses this to try to associate each row with the individuals linked to the census source. ...

Nick,

I ran across a problem with this census. There are only two columns, but the headings and data were not converted correctly.


Bill

Nick,

Just a little feedback. I've converted about 20 censuses and all have worked flawlessly with no need to adjust anything. Only 1,011 to go.

Bill

If you haven't already run across it, the Knowledge Base has a lot of good information.

Especially take a look at Key Features for Newcomers.

Bill

What fact type are you using for the obituary and In Memorium notice? Did you create custom facts for those?

If you did, you can go into Tools > Facts Types, select the fact, click on Edit, and make sure the Normal Time Frame is set to Post-Death. That might eliminate the warnings.

Bill

Hi Ann, Welcome to the FHUG. There is no way to mark them as not being a problem. I think they are not really problems, but just warnings that there might be a problem. If the actual problem ones are corrected then they will not appear here any longer. Some of the warnings are dependent on the setti...

Nick,

I can confirm the fix for the dropping of the last character. That was quick!

Thanks,
Bill

NIck, I have tried a few census sources that have commas in the column titles and they are working great now. Thanks for the quick "fix". I did spot another problem. The last character in the last column is getting dropped. If there is any data in that column, the last character in the data is being...

I had always envisaged this testing period would include people flagging up their examples of source text that doesn't convert well so that I could work on improving the process. NIck, Was there something else I should have posted? I posted the text from source field that I was having issues with. ...