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by davidf
01 Dec 2019 18:44
Forum: Web Site Usage
Topic: Time Setting on FHUG
Replies: 5
Views: 4436

Re: Time Setting on FHUG

Click on your name, top right, go to your User Control Panel, then Board Preferences, and select My timezone . Mine is UTC +00.00, Europe/London. Thanks that solves the problem Delay in reply due to forgetting to subscribe to this topic! (Not a sub-board that I automatically follow. More settings!)
by davidf
01 Dec 2019 18:20
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Help Understanding Sources in FH
Replies: 42
Views: 17977

Re: Help Understanding Sources in FH

It might help if we could establish a clear definition with examples of bibliography and citations in this context. ... Do we need to step back and try to find some expression of "need" that is language independent (particularly FH or Shown Mills language independent)? Then we can try and find how ...
by davidf
01 Dec 2019 15:52
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Narrative Report Heading how to change it?
Replies: 27
Views: 12912

Re: Narrative Report Heading how to change it?

Yes Kylie, you have understood perfectly. With so many Citations for a single Source document, anything in Where within Source or Text From Source would need to be repeated in every such Citation , which is bad practice and difficult to correct mistakes. That Text From Source field is very differen...
by davidf
28 Nov 2019 16:45
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Repositories
Replies: 10
Views: 5287

Re: Repositories

Splitter's assumption?
by davidf
24 Nov 2019 14:31
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Burials - Queries and Name Functions
Replies: 8
Views: 4571

Re: Burials - Queries and Name Functions

Correct, I am doing a series of one-name type mini-studies to try and break down a few C18th brick walls. This involves using Family Search to review parish records (In Cumbria I have found their transcriptions to be generally reliable). So using the batch number filter I can call up all Baptisms/Ma...
by davidf
21 Nov 2019 21:53
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Burials - Queries and Name Functions
Replies: 8
Views: 4571

Re: Burials - Queries and Name Functions

Yet I use an RPN calculator!

One enhancement now I can see my way:

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=TextIf(%INDI.~SPOU[last]>SEX% = "Male",
    Text(%INDI.~SPOU[last]>NAME:SURNAME% . ", " . %INDI.NAME:GIVEN_ALL% . " (née " . %INDI.NAME:SURNAME% . ")"),
    %INDI.NAME:SURNAME_FIRST%)
by davidf
21 Nov 2019 21:06
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Burials - Queries and Name Functions
Replies: 8
Views: 4571

Re: Burials - Queries and Name Functions

Yup, that does it!

Originally so near yet so far.

Thanks
by davidf
21 Nov 2019 16:40
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Burials - Queries and Name Functions
Replies: 8
Views: 4571

Burials - Queries and Name Functions

I want to do a quick query to show all known burials in my tree for a certain location. Since most people are buried once I do an Individual Query and pull in the burial details and put a parameter query into the rows tab: %INDI.BURI[1].PLAC>% is ["Burial"] And that works ... Except married women te...
by davidf
20 Nov 2019 17:46
Forum: Web Site Usage
Topic: Time Setting on FHUG
Replies: 5
Views: 4436

Time Setting on FHUG

Am I in a parallel universe?
I'm getting notifications and posts before they have been sent.
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Notice the times on the notifications and my own system time (Top Right)

Presumably the server clock is out of sync - not fallen back when coming off BST?
by davidf
17 Nov 2019 22:13
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Display different set of fact types
Replies: 12
Views: 7758

Re: Display different set of fact types

OK this is now bugging me, so I went to the CoE Website : There is no difference between a christening service and a baptism service. Some churches will use the word ‘baptism’ and some the word ‘christening’. The moment when your child has water poured or wiped on their head is the actual baptism an...
by davidf
16 Nov 2019 17:06
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Display different set of fact types
Replies: 12
Views: 7758

Re: Display different set of fact types

Without wishing to stir up any pointless circling of definitionless arguments, I'd just add that the Book of Common Prayer, which defined the services for the Church of England for centuries, has three similar service called, from memory, something like the Order of Publick Baptism of Infants, the ...
by davidf
16 Nov 2019 16:52
Forum: General Usage
Topic: A question on Sources
Replies: 23
Views: 10788

Re: A question on Sources

I think Jane highlights two distinct aspects of what you put into FH. First, what you want to display in reports or diagrams - which is very dependent on Facts and what you enter in the left-hand side of the Individual's property box. Here you have play by FH's rules, or at least work in sympathy wi...
by davidf
15 Nov 2019 17:06
Forum: General Usage
Topic: A question on Sources
Replies: 23
Views: 10788

Re: A question on Sources

We used to believe that the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Roll of Honour website was sacrosanct, but they changed their underlying technology (and massively improved search access etc - possibly as a consequence) and the old URLs went with the old technology. As an aside I do wish that sites th...
by davidf
15 Nov 2019 16:03
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Query on occupations
Replies: 8
Views: 4944

Re: Query on occupations

Welcome to FHUG

Are you running a query on Individuals or Facts?

I think you need to select "Facts" in the General Tab
Then in the Rows Tab "Excluded Unless =FactLabel(%FACT%) matches "Occupation"

That works for me
by davidf
14 Nov 2019 15:31
Forum: New Wish List Requests
Topic: Drag and Drop between projects
Replies: 19
Views: 14068

Re: Drag and Drop between projects

... Anyway, such a feature only gets used infrequently, so does not significantly improve efficiency. Well such a feature does not get used at all, because it is not there! It may only be infrequently used for you , but others with different workflows (particularly those that involve family reconst...
by davidf
13 Nov 2019 13:43
Forum: General Usage
Topic: I lost media files from my FH project
Replies: 17
Views: 7705

Re: I lost media files from my FH project

BTW: Opening a GEDCOM file that is embedded within a valid Project structure will always open the Project and NOT the GEDCOM on its own. Go and try it. So it does! That blows my theory as to how I screwed up a project a few years ago when I first started using projects! The OP's issue seem to be un...
by davidf
13 Nov 2019 13:38
Forum: New Wish List Requests
Topic: Drag and Drop between projects
Replies: 19
Views: 14068

Re: Drag and Drop between projects

Mike ... I would rather that Calico Pie spent their time & effort on more useful features. Thanks for the info about RM and how they handle drag and drop. I suppose it all boils down to how one organises their research. I work on a 15" lap-top (albeit with a relatively good resolution 1920x1080) whi...
by davidf
13 Nov 2019 01:02
Forum: General Usage
Topic: I lost media files from my FH project
Replies: 17
Views: 7705

Re: I lost media files from my FH project

Mike,

Has the OP originally created a project (complete with file structure) but then reopened the GEDcom file by clicking on the file icon (rather than on the fh_proj icon)? If so will updates have potentially got things tangled?

Are they using the "project window" (the safer way to start FH)?
by davidf
13 Nov 2019 00:50
Forum: New Wish List Requests
Topic: Drag and Drop between projects
Replies: 19
Views: 14068

Re: Drag and Drop between projects

Roots Magic can do drag and drop according to their website (https://www.rootsmagic.com/RootsMagic/Features.aspx). So there must be a way to do some of this functionality. The conceptual design is probably relatively simple but the actual system design would be complex. In most cases I would image t...
by davidf
08 Nov 2019 17:57
Forum: General Usage
Topic: FH Version 7
Replies: 26
Views: 17797

Re: FH Version 7

Helen, I would say actually making the move is no more difficult than upgrading from say Windows XP to Windows 7 (unless of course you up grade by doing a simultaneous hardware upgrade - buying a new machine). The time involved is because of the degree of choice! There is always a balance between sa...
by davidf
08 Nov 2019 16:48
Forum: General Usage
Topic: FH Version 7
Replies: 26
Views: 17797

Re: FH Version 7

I am repeatedly advised to upgrade to Windows 10. Please accept that my lovely Sony all in one desktop is not compatible. Bits and pieces may stop working if it is upgraded. I may well continue to use it as I have virus protection and we dont do tax or banking on line. Thought of trying Linux? Linu...
by davidf
08 Nov 2019 15:11
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Is there a recommendable layperson's guide to copyright, privacy, etc?
Replies: 5
Views: 3590

Re: Is there a recommendable layperson's guide to copyright, privacy, etc?

Copyright -- obviously you own the copyright in any original material you've produced, and facts can't be copyrighted, but have you included an material written by others in your research (even a transcription of a source?) Do you have a photo of your parents' wedding day? Who owns the copyright in...
by davidf
08 Nov 2019 09:22
Forum: Research
Topic: Find My Past
Replies: 7
Views: 6188

Re: Find My Past

They (FMP) used (a few years ago) also write to subscribers telling them that their subscriptions were being extended by the same number of days - which I thought was a nice touch.

Seem to have stopped doing so?
by davidf
05 Nov 2019 01:48
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Census entry if away from home
Replies: 21
Views: 12582

Re: Census entry if away from home

I appreciate the point of recording the information as you say. But as an example, if a child is staying with his grandparents at one address and his parents at another if you record the information as you suggest the child would not be linked to his parents would they? Do we need to check that the...
by davidf
05 Nov 2019 01:43
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Reinstalling FH
Replies: 9
Views: 4973

Re: Reinstalling FH

The password manager solution is not enough if you have a downloaded installation file instead of a CD. I suggest an archive as per the how_to:family_historian_installation_details#installation_archive|> Installation Archive advice. That archive folder should form part of your standard backup regim...