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Hi Mark, Yes, that's probably something like what I'll do. My workflow (so far as I've thought it through) will be to download the ged file from FMP, and import that to a new FH project. Once in there, I'll run a plugin to export the key details to a text file or two. Then I can open my main project...

Thanks, both. Individuals are probably not too awkward, but I know that Families will be a bit of a challenge. Anyway, I'll give it a go.

Hi, I'm using FMP for the online version of my tree, and I'm getting into using plugins as a way to apply updates to FH, using exported data from FMP. I'm very aware of the risks of doing this, but I'm interested to give it a try. FMP applies a unique ID (in fairly standard guid format) to each expo...

Thanks for the help, all. I've made some progress with a plugin, thanks to the help guides mentioned by Mark. Here's what I have, which does output the note text in full. Maybe not the most elegant code, but by building up from the examples in the guide, it wasn't too tricky. tblNotes = {} tblIds = ...

Thanks, Mike.

I'll try the paragraph-based approach. Meantime, I think it's time I had a go with plugins. I've been a software developer in my time so I'm hoping that LUA won't be too much of a curve to climb.

Martin

I've just discovered that text fields such as notes are truncated at or around 500 characters, when I include them in a query. I need the whole field because it's being copied into an Excel document for use elsewhere. Other forum posts led me to the =GetLabelledText() function, but that's designed t...

Understood - thanks, Mike.

I've been experimenting with a ged file exported from FindMyPast (FMP). I use the File Compare/Merge process, which works OK, but it can't handle the media URLs that FMP exports. Example segment from the FMP file: 0 @I6@ INDI 1 NAME Alice /Alty/ 2 GIVN Alice 2 SURN Alty 2 _PRIM Y 2 SOUR @S39@ 3 PAGE...

OK, thanks, Mike. There are few enough to add, that I can probably do so manually. At least FH has helped by identifying the ones I need to do.

Hi, I have a copy of my tree on FindMyPast (FMP), and I'd like to sync it with my local copy in FH. As a first step, I just want to deal with new people and families who have been added to FMP. So I exported the Gedcom from FMP, took a copy of my FH project file, and I'm running Merge/Compare File u...

Thanks for your help, Mike. Sorry not to have replied earlier. I don't think my notification settings on this forum are doing what I'd hoped they would. Anyway, I'll follow your advice and bear your warnings in mind. I think I'll try an experiment or two with some smaller sample / test files and see...

Hi all My brother-in-law has sent me a Gedcom file and I'm comparing it with my own FH7 project. I've a couple of questions about this: 1. Using the file compare/merge feature - when I click "Merge", I know that it will merge into the file I currently have open. But does it save the merged file to d...

Thanks for your quick replies, and I'll be taking up your suggestions.

Hi, My cousin sent me a Word doc with a slab of text about my great-grandmother. For now I've copy/pasted the text into a Source record (in the Text From Source field). I've seen some posts on the forum that mention using links to external documents, so I'm wondering whether that's a "better" approa...

Aha - I see that the new beta version includes this as a facility ... I'll give it a try!

A colleague of mine had built a tree on Ancestry's site, and is now trialling FH. Ancestry's recent addition of a gedcom export therefore was a welcome facility. However, Ancestry doesn't yet include FAMS or FAMC tags. FH imports the individuals and the families OK as separate entities, but it doesn...