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Waiting for those code snippets sounds more profitable that learning lua and writing a tree-crawler - an interesting challenge but I have other things I want to do!

Thanks

Some interesting options but I don't see one that does quite what I would like to do. Context The (UK) Ministry of Defence (JCCC) is responsible for identifying the remains of (e.g. WW1) soldiers found on the battlefields. Sometimes they can draw up a shortlist of who the soldier might be. They then...

I imagine your female lineage is not so much a tree as a single column of boxes from you (or your wife) up to the oldest female direct ancestor. In that case you know the people involved, so use Tools > How Related to choose you and your eldest female direct ancestor, then Display Graphically and H...

I tend to think about how I would want those facts "revealed" If you want it to appear in diagrams and reports, adding the detail from the article as the relevant fact (occupation/residence etc), means it will be revealed without adding a custom fact to your diagrams and reports. If you just want to...

Thanks wrt Expanding the column width! Then being able to move the "citation notes" up/down Pointing out that the SOUR in the All tree is actually closer to a CITE (although in hierarchical database design the position in a tree can vary?) The resolution of looping - one day my understanding of loop...

1) Another provider could read an GEDCOM from FH in order to provide a 3D view of a 10 generations tree (non-fan chart) and produce the standard STL file for 3D printers to deliver a 3D family tree kit ? 2) Does this idea can be submitted to FH to get a new FH Pack or to get a new FH plugin to view...

tatewise wrote:Multiple references to the same Source are not causing the replication.

But it does look as if somehow the residence and occupation facts for 1861 have two sources:
1861 Census
1851 Census

Not a cause of the original problem - but it does look as if some tidying may be required!

All I want to achieve is a report containing a single source record for a census record, with the census image and transcript attached. This will request will jump you into the lumper/splitters debate that crops up in numerous questions! (see current discussions on Multiple evidence of event ). You...

it's necessary to record the link to the source we eventually decided to use, but we also need to explain why we discarded a variety of other sources For sources that we discard (only as potential for the FT at its present state), does anyone else put in a citation with a "NOT" in the "Where within...

What is your take on Birth/Death Certificates ? Is each one a distinct document, or one page from a large register of certificates? A splitter would not say divide a certificate down to columns to identify just an Occupation. I had a natural disinclination to split physical sources over multiple so...

"Are they standard GEDCOM?" Yes, I believe that they are - I go slightly bog-eyed looking at that area but the SOURCE_CITATION part of the GEDCOM standard includes an optional +1 <<NOTE_STRUCTURE>>, which I think is what you are referring to. Use of that would indeed avoid duplication but, as you s...

Trying to think my way round this a bit more: Mike mentions again the issue of duplication of (detail) on citations in "lumper" records Helen mentions the need to annotate various things and "a very poor set of facilities (based on the Gedcom standard) for recording our assessment" For "lumpers" dup...

Um. At the risk of turning normal people right off, I have to say that I'm happy with a one-liner that says that sources provide evidence. Except under rare conditions, we wouldn't be recording something in a source record unless it provided evidence for some argument, be it positive or negative, d...

That is novel idea David, but they look expensive, and how do you label the bits with people's names? Agreed, the "sets" are not over expensive (cf say a FH licence), but what you get in them is not all useful - so the cost per useful part is rather high! It struck me though as a potential interest...

Hello, As a 3D tree can be also stick on the ceiling of a room [so always visible for guests in this room...], it could be magic to write later a print pack for FH to print the 3D pieces with a 3D printer and build the tree like a Lego. You could try doing something with a chemical modelling kit (s...

It does strike me that we (and here I mean new/ less experienced users) all need a single document with clear definitions of what is a repository, what is a source, a citation etc etc. ... I take what you are saying, But I couldn't care less about best genealogical practice. I made my choice to wor...

Jane wrote:No such thing as a dumb question and thanks for posting your solution as well.

The reason is that Exists() checks for a Data Item (in Lua terms a pointer) so checking a Text string always fails.

That is a useful answer! So the question must have been useful because it flushed it out!

Re The definition of source is "What did you use to get the data?" , that is very different from "where did the quoted "information" come from?" (prone to transmission errors,) so I'm with Adrian on this -- send people to the place I looked at, not the place where the 'original' data lies. And reco...

Helen, We need to be careful about what we mean by a "source"! In respect of Parish Registers: The Bishop's Transcript is a different source from the Parish Register - often with transcription errors but sometimes with added "colour". (As I found reading through the BTs for some North Cumberland Bap...

... if the details in the two images are essentially the same and thus involve the same Citations then there is no significant problem in combining them in one Source record. ... This is something I have been trying to get my mind around as part of an ongoing verification, validation and evidencing...

Jane wrote:The software writer in me does not like to put text in when I can add a link which can be used.

This discussion has alerted me to the power of GetLabelledText, but I wonder is it easier to use Witnesses as a means of linking individuals by DNA?

In the diagram, right click and select "Diagram options" Under the "General" tab there is an option (about half-way down) "Background" You can adjust this (so all stripes are white?) This will remove the striped background from the on screen diagram (You can do similar with the next option Backgroun...

Mike The consequences of picking up a Gedcom as a complex FT to work on (all events are likely to be present)! But it raises some interesting issues 1) I had picked up the Catherine of Aragon divorce date error. 2) In respect of Catherine Howard: "Marriage" in Gedcom terms is an "Event" rather than ...

Thanks that seems to do the trick. I will experiment a bit with the original experimental file to see if I can create exceptional situations such as you suggested in your previous post.

Ah, yes that looks far healthier! And I think I understand the explanation! Screenshot from 2019-02-10 14-08-35.png Now bend my mind to the widowed/widower information: Original thoughts: Either introduce a final line for each marriage that did not end in divorce (or separation?) as defined by the s...