Family Historian User Group

Some interesting views have been expressed, my having presumed the thread as dead due to my response. I shall try the Export Gedcom plugin and if that does not provide a solution I think having unknown dates calculated will, as suggested, be taken too literally because they are not recognisable. I m...

Sorry to have wasted your time Jane. I have just discovered an error by testing the gedcom file, but does not show up in FH views. [EDIT] The error was caused by having a child with known name but with no known birth date. That obviously caused it to appear before marriage date. Not sure what else c...

Thank you Jane but I already tried that. The data in Gedstar pro is shown in the following order... Name, Note, Son, Birth, Baptism, Dau, Marriage, Dau, Dua, Death, Burial and for another person... Name, Note, Birth, Marriage, Dau, Dau, Son, Dau, Dau, Death My concern is a son and a daughter in the ...

I have a few Android apps for gedcom etc. and notice that (for example Gedstar Pro) the events data and relations data per person is displayed out of sensible order and not the same order for each person. I tracked this down to possibly (probably) due to the data being ordered by the date it was ent...

Thank you very much Jane, I will pursue your Plugin.

PS It does not show in the plugin list as Evernote, can you give directions please?

V5: I have produced a query and require some columns to contain NewLine. I have used =Text("X") to produce text in a column but cannot find the required code? for NewLine. The purpose is to use the Query output to feed into a formatted text frame in a DTP program (Scribus). Eveything works except th...

QED indeed! I have not tried this yet but the theory holds water. In fact it seems to be an improvement due to the "bonus". I do have a 'conventional' project as well but I already use the Backup And Restore Family Historian Settings Plugin, so I see no problems there. Failing that I have another PC...

Thank you for your responses. As Jane has said, Source notes can be included in reports, but an advantage of using a Note Record rather than the note field of a Source record is that the text of the note can be included in the main body of a Report, if desired, instead of being 'hidden' in the Sourc...

Thank you for responding. Yes I do use the Custom ID to create the Note number in the persons Diagram Box. That works perfectly. I understand what you say about using a Source only and the photograph attached to the source, but I used the Note because it is instantly visible (I don't have to open th...

Scenario: Several people share a tomb inscription perhaps over several generations. I intend to create a common Note containing information including a citation to the Source Record for the inscription itself including photograph, then link the Note to all individuals involved. A Text Scheme then an...

Thank you for the excellent guidance as always tatewise.
No matter what I read I don't seem to find the right one.
Eventually I will have read everything and thus run out of excuses.

yellow 'scroll' icon next to sources in the Source Records window Source Records-Records Window. i.e. the Sources Tab alongside Individuals, Notes, Repositories. The purpose was to try to distinguish different Source Records from the long list of every Source Record I have created. 'On reflection'....

Clutching at straws...
is there any way to change the colour of the yellow 'scroll' icon next to sources in the Source Records window?

Tony said:
Your seemingly tireless and energetic work putting users like myself straight is amazing, thanks so much.

I heartily second that comment, where would we be without such dedication.

Not a question but I feel I must thank you tatewise, for your kind assistance and very valuable, sound advice which obviously comes from much time spent with the program. I shall morph from a hare to a tortoise. As you will note I have been with this program since the early versions. My problem (not...

Thank you for your further comments. tatewise said: Perhaps what you have not realised is that you can link an unlimited number of images to the Multimedia tab of one Source Record. It is becoming obvious to me that there is rather a lot that I have not realised. Certainly the above and also the col...

I thank you both for your useful comments and feel that I may be better served to be as conventional as possible, who knows what will occur down the line if I am not. I think I will compromise on your comments, I do like having the images for completeness and be able to show others the evidence, but...

Thank you both very much for your input both of which I understand, however, although the GRO Records show the same Place and Book/Page, the two Records differ in the Name of the person printed on the page. The reason I produced two Sources was precisely that the two 'images' are different and one n...

I am tidying up and simplifying by using Expressions under the tutilage of tatewise's recent suggestions. In doing so I have been using Indices and that threw up the following question. A GRO Marriage record consists of two parts, unlike a Church Record. I would appreciate views on the placing of th...

Thank you for your explanations. There is clearly a misunderstanding which may be useful to clear up. from tatewise: I apologise for not reminding you to untick Show most commonly used items only to reveal <Custom Item>. I assumed you would remember you needed to do that from when you created the In...

Thank you again for your patience. After reading the following and searching 6 times... Try using <Custom Item> (for advanced users) to create a new item and see if that fixes the problem. I could not find it. I did eventually but it does not show up and is not obvious especially if one followed the...

I thought this was going rather too well (for me).
The Edit Custom Item button is disabled and nothing I do will enable it.
A small hint please?

[Edit] The item "Inscription" does not have the appendix "(Custom"), in the Selected Items list.??

Thank you as always tatewise, for your thorough and well written explanation.
I am sure I can now complete this exercise.
Regards

What I have done is add Inscription with a single Box into Main of Property Box. I do not 'need' to add text (I know I will as you suggest) but simply attach a Source to that as with Birth, and with my Diagram Expression it has placed the Icon correctly. Although it works, is there anything that is ...

Thank you for your response and its additional information. I understand what you say and agree regarding adding more text to the Text Box appearing now on Main Tab and also the Timeframe. Quote from Tatewise: I would still give it a Date however, which could also be customised into Main tab. The da...