Family Historian User Group

The problem is a paramour can be male or female - so you have not really got the counter-party to mistress. The best that I can think of is "Johnson" - but I hope that quickly loses currency - particularly since it can be applied to so many illicit or immoral roles. Ideally you want 4 terms - two ma...

I'm concerned that I've misunderstood you. If the source just says "Farnham" but there's a reference to "Stang Lane", then I'd enter the event into FH with a Place-name of "Farnham, Nr Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England". Not "Farnham". (In fact, wouldn't "Farnham, North Yorkshire, England" su...

Presumably though there must be examples where you have "two points on the globe" with identical transcribed name, but different standardised places? So if the source just says "Farnham", but because of other information (such as a reference to "Castle Street"), you believe you can enter "Farnham, S...

Hence why
the "Place" should be as on the Source
and
the "standardised place" is as of now?
(and just hope your place is not in Eastern Ukraine! but there will be a plug-in for that sort of issue!)

it came with a PITA that you got deaths before the principal's birth. But seeing deaths before the principal's birth can be useful when looking at families that follow a naming convention - as it might explain the second use of a name. E.g. John b 1902 a year after the death of John 1899-1901? Seei...

The first step is to reduce the number of Place records so there is only one Place record per location. Well, is it? A point on the globe can have multiple names changing through history (eg. Early Canadian provinces, or Holy Roman Empire to current Germany) but also sometimes at the same time (Der...

In V6 I usually access such things through the <Custom Item> (for advanced users) and select the relevant flags:

The Admin on this site, Jane, is probably holding back as she may not want to be thought to use this site for promotion.

However if you look at her posts you can see her level of expertise.

Have a look at her site on One to One Training

The problem with my literal suggestion is that it's even more difficult to mark up marriage relationships as tentative, although Associated persons might be the way. I think I would agree with Adrian, that in this case there is nothing "tentative" about either Gilbert Hay, so "marking them" as tent...

I think I have seen similar requests previously Is there a wish list want for an extension of the functions to include a count function? = count ( what [Individuals/families/notes(free-standing)/Sources/Repositories/Media/Places/Facts], where [specified by query or named list?], orderby , [Distinct|...

With V7 allowing sort dates - I'm on V6 so just reading the marketing documentation - can we adopt a practice where the date is as per the document and the sort date is our interpretation of what that date would be in the modern (current) calendar?

Is it a case that the sub topics showing on the Services & Utilities Topic need a bit of consideration? At the moment some areas looks like a bit f a miss-mash and the Titles - which are probably historic - do not adequately (in the few characters available) describe what is to be found in the Sub T...

We have 19399|Plugins planned/in progress to ensure that plugin authors don't duplicate work unknowingly. That Topic I have never spotted - mainly because plug-in development means learning a new "technology" (LUA) in addition to HTML, CSS, & Javascript which I learnt too long ago and Excel VBA whi...

Dedicated extra Filters are unlikely to be popular with enough users to warrant a software change. As I said earlier it would be hard to get consensus about extra fields in this bit of screen estate - "Pool" possibly being the most likely - but I suspect that might be a case of satisfying the bigge...

Named lists have their uses, but I don't feel this is one of them. It's the multi-steps that I am trying to avoid - forget or make an error and you start to get unexpected results. So you have added/deleted an individual (or worse a tree) to/from a diagram Ctrl-A to select All, Edit, Add to Named Li...

It's the indirectness of the work-a-rounds! If the people you want to filter on are on a named list, yup, you can go to it. Suppose you have got to a stage where you need to select and you find yourself in the select dialogue and struggling to recognise the people you want. If you know their birth o...

Thanks

This or similar appears in a number of dialogues: Screenshot from 2022-08-21 16-38-21.png Narrowing down the selection can be a pain - you can of course use the + icons before the Name to open up details of that name - to see for instance if you have the John Smith who is a son of Jack and Mary Smit...

The received wisdom seems to be that you should minimise the number of projects that you create- and I have been moving towards this view. Separate Projects have the following benefits You can separate by Geography - So I have separate projects for my surname in USA/Canada and in Australia and in Ne...

OK, I appreciate that it involves modifying the "article template" rather than just customising the heading.

Colin Thanks for your work and these changes Title wrapping rarely effects me so I will leave those that access via tablet/phones etc to comment. I think the chain link now looks less in your face which I think is an improvement What about the positioning of it? In the Forum, you can pick up a link ...

Thanks for these changes - I expected a much longer lead-time! I. Titles and Structure I think that is an improvement overall - particularly when I bring the zoom level back to 100% (I tend to work at 120% on a 15.6" laptop - which means large headings tend to wrap). Does the heading still work on t...

... Yes it does indeed mess up if the space is removed after the bracket so it looks like the answer I've given is correct, I misread what the last sentence in the help was saying. Yup, your original answer is V7 correct and compliant. My response prompted your musing about just how Smart "Smart sp...

Thanks I do (or will) need to swot up. Comparing the online V7 help to the online V6 help this looks like one of the unannounced(?) quiet improvements to V7. In V7 Help searching for "Smart Spacing" brings up the page with your quote. V6 Help is silent. So in V6 you would need to use (don't do this!...

{individual} married {spouse/her/him} <(born {%CUR_PRIN2.BIRT.DATE%})> {date} {place} Being picky shouldn't the space before {date} be within the angle brackets to avoid a double space if there is no birth date? So it would read: {individual} married {spouse/her/him} _ <(born {%CUR_PRIN2.BIRT.DATE%...