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You could avoid the renumbering if your "book" endnotes were organised by "chapter" (where each chapter was a FH report). You might then be able to produce a Bibliography (avoiding duplicates etc) from the endnotes section of your book in something like Word or Libre Office. This is a format I have ...

Also, not as convenient as the Where Used Button in Work with Places, but ALT-V-L in the records window will bring up the record links. I tried to do the "press three keys simultaneously" of Alt-V-L (thinking this was an undocumented special short-cut) which got a bit tricky, before realising that ...

More discussion of Cox & Co / Cox & Kings - described as "Army Agents"

I would suggest that the soldier received locally the "spending money" he had elected to receive and the balance was held in London and they could give their wives a right to draw on that money. That would minimise cash in war zones. No doubt the situation evolved - by WW1 I think it was pretty form...

Please check your facts :D before requesting changes that have already been implemented. Which is why I qualified my remark with "for V6" because it may or may not still apply for V7. Not being on V7 I cannot experiment to see what is there (and there is nothing like confirming what you think on an...

The "for V6" was simply allowing for the fact that in V7 things may be different - but if V7 users say it is unchanged I would add to Adrian's list (for V7)

Likewise for (V6) take:

• "Witnesses" out from under the Fact listing (property Box) Cog Wheel and give it its own Icon.
• "Open Media in Player" out from under the Source listing (property Box) Cog Wheel
• Others?

Interesting fact (to me at least :) ) is that Microsoft included the Solitaire card game in Windows because in order to play it people would learn how to drag and drop with the mouse. Using a mouse was a new concept for most new users of Windows even up to the early 2000s and this game encouraged t...

Yes I think it was about a year ago that the "tab labels" got detached from the actual tab content - because "they wanted you to realise that they could be dragged" (what the tab labels, or the tabs and labels - separating them made it look as if your could really scramble things). The "soft aqua" t...

Don't confuse "intuitive" with "familiar"! Microsoft tried to say a Mouse interface in Windows was intuitive - as if dragging a thing across a mat alongside you PC to make a pointer move on your screen was intuitive. I spent ages explaining to my mother that the pointer on (Windows 3) would not work...

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. Needs a bit of knowledge of CCS but that can be picked up online. For instance on this Forum I have a Stylus amendment that reads: /* ...

Ah, the difference has dawned! (You may notice in my "mocked up" Selected Diagram Blocks I had selected Names & Titles - Detailed - treating the Name as any other "fact".) Screenshot from 2022-10-11 13-45-47.png If all those are held in some master Available Items Block Definition data structure the...

in my Available Items list in the V6 Edit Text Scheme dialogue, I have Attributes and Events and a few items at the top of the list - <Custom item>, <Font change ...>, <No Record Text>, <Picture Marker>, and <vertical Gap>. I've just referred to them by the name in the first column - the "Type" sor...

If I understand your proposal, the user only edits Available Diagram Blocks and never Selected Diagram Blocks. So if for example the Census - Detailed block was changed it would impact every Text Scheme that had selected that block. I would advocate that the Diagram Blocks supplied "out of the box"...

David, you are mistaken about the order of the Add Fact entries. They are primarily sorted by Normal Time Frame, then by whether they are Individual or Family facts and the Fact Set order, and finally alphabetically. Whether they are common or obscure (however that is defined) has nothing to do wit...

tatewise wrote: ↑

13 Oct 2022 10:42

I have just checked that the FH V6 Edit Text Scheme Available Item Type values are very similar to FH V7.
Click the Type column header and scroll down to see all the Type values that I mentioned.

Ok, I see what you mean - it is the items that I referred to in my last reply to you.

... I understand your proposal for diagram blocks, but using Fact Type definitions only partially resolves the Available Items. If you sort the Text Scheme list of Available Items by Type then Fact Type definitions might work for Attribute and Event, but what about Calculated, Data, Identifier, and...

... My concern is that I had got the impression (rightly or wrongly) that you were suggesting shifting(?) stuff from here to the earlier "Fact Definition" dialog. Because I could see multiple options for how the Census event (say) could be output in a Text Scheme, it seemed inappropriate to include...

Adrian, we may just be at a point of disagreement but ... When you create a new fact, you create a new "Available Item" in the list of "Available Items" on the Edit Text Scheme dialogue. If you select it, you then get a dialogue that allows minimal (code-free) customisation: Screenshot from 2022-10-...

Unless locked by a mod, I think topics live forever!

(Some people are responsible for creating some real monsters - often unwittingly!)

But slightly playing devil's advocate here, my experience is that very few "normal people" use styles in MS Word (say). Or perhaps those who do, use the ones that are there, but just apply hand-crafted formatting to things that aren't "obviously" matching the supplied styles. But we are talking abo...

Thanks I had missed that detail of the copyright on the 1939 Register. Still presumably a business option for FMP to decide that the one-off sale value of the transcripts and indices to a competitor exceeds the disbenefit of a competitor getting "their 1921 census" to the market slightly quicker. Al...

Mike has not picked this up, so in his absence, Welcome to FHUG. I would caution against using FH to hold contact information. Family Trees, once in the wild have a habit of spreading to very distant relatives and then some-how personal data of living persons gets harvested by the likes of Google or...

Given the effort that had to be put into the 1921 digitisation by FMP, thanks to the security concerns, my wild guess is 2y 6m at least before Ancestry can release it. But you then wonder "how" they would do it and how much FMP has "got enough return" and how much "ownership" TNA has over the digit...

There will certainly be software running on our own computers for decades to come but more and more people will move away from that. As I said, this won't be immediate and indeed many people don't have access to fast enough Internet connections yet. It's not just the speed of "generally available" ...