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All now corrected, and seems to be working OK in conjunction with Ancestral Sources. Thank heavens for Named Lists, which I used to record who had cencus flags set, then deleted all the old flags and set up the new flags for one person (me - being the first person in the GED file) which I subesquent...

Nick, Many thanks for your help and advice re my question on correcting flag expressions in the V4 Usage section. I have now sorted this all out and the flag tags and names are compatible with Ancestral Sources. I'd like to suggest a couple of enhancements to the Census Flag Check function, the firs...

Having spent ages not finding my grandfather in the 1901 census, though I have him in both the 1891 and 1911 census', I came across some entries in various Boer War records that might be him, but without enough detail to confirm it: Private 24732 Albert Hare 43 Company (Suffolk) 12 Battalion Imperia...

With a few false starts I managed to get it sorted. It seems that FH uses the first occurrence in the GED file of a tag+name combination when applying subsequent settings of that flag. So having deleted all the old and new 1911 entries, I just created a new flag in FH called Census UK 1911 for the f...

Right had a ago at modifying a copy of my GED file with notepad, and thought I'd go the whole way and change all the census flag tags to the form __yyyy_UK_C to be consistent with Ancestral Sources. I didn't change the tag description in the GED file, just the tag 'value'. This seems to have worked ...

Hi Nick,

Many thanks for your comprehensive reply.

I'll have a play with a copy of my GED file along the lines you've suggested to see if I can resolve the problem.

Cheers.
David

Thanks Nick for the quick reply. Yes that explains it, I just didn't find the right search terms to put in when looking [smile]

David

Just come across a minor glitch when trying to run an old (v3) query, which lists my ancestors, with what flags are set for birth/marriage/death certs and census entries. For all census entries except 1911 the expression (in the columns tab for the query) is %INDI._FLGS.__CENSUS_UK_1841% however for...

Once a day when I login I've got the PC set up to copy all my (changed) family history data files and, under v3, the config/settings (in C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication DataCalico PieFamily Historian....) to my NAS drive so that I can then copy them to my laptop when necessary). Does v4...

Thank you Jane.

David

Is there any way (in v4) of setting the background colour of certain boxes in diagrams, for example based on the existance of a flag? I know I can mark boxes, but this seems not to be preserved between changes of diagram, and it would be much more consistent if I could do it by use of a flag. I just...

OK, well I've done the upgrade to v4 and everything seems to be working ok. I set up a new folder for my family tree stuff, told v4 to create the new project in there using my existing GED file, and away it went, including copying all the source files (just the ones referenced in the GED file) to a ...

[Written by JonAxtell (03/18/10 - 22:01:45) 'When you start V4, set the location of your projects to be on D:Data. Create your new project. You'll end up with D:DataYourProject.'] Jon - are you implying by this that the new v4 project should not be in the same folder as my current files ie d:datafam...

Thanks Jane and Jon,

I'll have a tidy up, save any custom diagrams etc, do a backup then have a go.

I'll report back how I got on in case anyone else finds it helpful.

David

Apologies in advance for a rather long post! I've finally taken the plunge and purchased v4 (the full version, not an upgrade, as I don't want to have to feed in old CDs whenever I need to reinstall). In v3 I have kept my GED file in d:datafamily history, and my source documents (image files, word d...

A 32% price hike...are they expecting us to clear the national debt all on our own [cry]

Just received my dad's WWII army service records after about a 4 month wait. What a mass of jargon and acronyms!!! Google has helped with some of it, but while I can find references to 'X2 Lists' and 'X4 Lists' (in the context of being transferred onto and off of them, often after being wounded) I'v...

Sorry Jane, it must have been someone elses post where I saw ROBOCOPY being suggested.

Good question about copying only changed files! I'll have to investigate in more detail what's going on, maybe the virus checker or something slowing down network traffic.

Thanks for your reply.

David.

Based on a post some time ago by Jane (I believe) I've been using SYNCBACK to create copies of my genealogy files onto a network disk drive so that I can use them from my laptop (and provide a second backup copy). More recently I've seen a recommendation (again I think from Jane) for a program calle...

Nick, I'd just like to offer this suggestion for the new version of GedCom Census. It would be quite useful if the Flag Check 'error report' could (optionally) be exported to a log file, maybe either text and/or csv format. This could then be used if I want to check each 'error' rather than have my ...

Do let us know how you get on, as others might find it helpful.

Good luck.

What web browser are you using when doing the export to Ancestry? I use Firefox by default, but following problems like yours, and getting exactly the same error message, I tried doing the export to Ancestry (of the very same ged file that had failed) using IE6 and it worked properly. Might be worth...

Hoversnap is a pretty good screen capture utility, and it's FREE! It can capture a whole screen, the active window or rectangle that you draw on the screen. It's small and quick.

http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm

then scroll down to find hoversnap.

Probably stating the obvious, but choose an approach that you can easily remember then be consistent in it's use, particularly in the 'primary' surname as it displays in the records window. Same is true where, for example, you are entering a spouse where you don't yet know the maiden/surname, and an...

Res Private can be found via a link on this FHUG WIKI page:

http://www.fhug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id ... es_privata