Family Historian User Group

I want to see if people use it. What their opinion is of how well it caters for their needs.

Thanks Mike. More reading.

I would like to talk to anyone that uses this fact set.

Hi William, FTDNA have a sale on at present. They have a very good offer on Big-Y700 at $229 for anyone upgrading form Y-STR111. They have reduced the cost of the test by separating access to the BAM file which not everyone wants. With these prices anyone can now go straight for a Big-Y700 test whic...

Hi William,

That's a good start. It makes sense.

So do you know many of your cousins scores or mismatched STRs ?

George

Hi All,

I can see discussion on DNA. So does anyone have a good way to include DNA results in FH projects ?

I am interested in including not just Y-SNP terminal haplogroups but Y-STR scores if at all practical.

How do folk handle Y-STR, Y-SNP, autosomal and mtDNA data ?

George

Thanks Mike,

Ideal options would be as per your suggestion - No trimming; Delete everything; Delete [[private]] text;

I note your comments re Undo.

I found the view source link.

George

Sorry, I still don't see how that DNA trace back works if you have no DNA samples from any ancestors. I appreciate that parts of my DNA are derived from various ancestors, but how do know who they are if I don't have their DNA. Mike and everyone, This is an old thread but I'm eagerly reading throug...

Mike, I'm trying to break the plugin. It seems to work fine for Ancestry. I needed a (Dummies) set of instructions . So here it is. 1. Copy backup of FH project for exporting to Filename . Check it is using UTF-8 not UTF-16 2. Run Clean Living Persons plugin to remove living persons details. 3. Run ...

Ancestry Error message with UTF-8 - Error: The file you have specified (Cowie WIP 2 9 Nov 2019.ged) does not appear to be a valid GEDCOM file, please try again. I may have missed something as there is a lot that is new to me. I will re-run Clean Living Persons and then Trim Date and Text Fields. The...

Hi Mike, I've been uploading small test Gedcoms to Ancestry.co.uk . It throws an error when using UTF-8 but ANSI seems to work fine. I've not tried any other Formats. Ancestry being American ANSI seemed the logical one to try first. The end results are fine. I may need to be more consistent when add...

Mike, Do you need anything else from me ? Obviously I will be happy to run tests using your plugin on my tree. DNA is the same as any other resource available for genealogical research. It is a good, if not the only, way to prove your conventional research. Everyone holds their little piece of infor...

Mike, Now you might appreciate why my first post was rather basic in its requirements. I certainly did not appreciate how difficult it would be to maintain the integrity of Gedcom files. The plugin will produce a gedcom file that will be used to upload an initial or updated file. If it contains any ...

Mike,a FTDNA only display b. and d. dates and places. As far as I can tell there is no provision for c., bef, aft, or ranges. So I assume they just extract b. and d. dates and places from a Gedcom and ignore the rest. It is limited but sufficient for a basic trees. Their Input/Edit screen, for an in...

Mike, I found the tutorials. Succumbed to temptation and so went off to learn another language. FTDNA only needs birth and death dates and I'm thinking in plain 4 digits. I don't think they accommodate c., abt or bet. I will check that before I confirm. The Place field is something I might need work...

Mike, I was hoping there might be something in existence so I wouldn't need to reinvent... I have used Notepad++ for website projects with php and MySQL. Don't know why I didn't think of that sooner. I guess I assumed Gedcom was simply a text based file, which I still assume is the case, and Excel c...

Hi Mike, I read through the other topic. The reason I want to edit a standard FH Gedcom is partly for FTDNA as it is a regular requirement where updates and additions are made. I would also use the short date and place Gedcom to perform regular updates for my Ancestry tree. I prefer using year and p...

Hi Mike, I did select V6.2 in my registration, Maybe I missed Submit. So, I want to export a Gedcom file to be uploaded alongside my DNA kit at Family Tree DNA. The editing of records on the FTDNA website is not as easy as FH. So producing an updated Gedcom file with short date and place would be id...

Hi All,

Is there a Plugin that will allow me to Export a Gedcom file with shortened dates and places ?

The idea being to simply have year and parish/county for each type of event.

I realise I can use Excel to achieve this but if there is a plugin that will obviously make life easier.

George