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This has generated a lot of heat about the changes but (to my poor little brain) not a lot of light, so I decided to work through my most common workflows in version 6.0 and 6.1.2 in parallel to see what impact the changes would have *on me*. Some caveats/preliminary comments. 1. Goodness knows whet...

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In the DropBox folder, if two PCs are updating the same file at the same time, there will be files with 'conflicted copy' in the title -- are there any such files?

Yes, I know it's an individual note and not a family one -- that's why I want to use it. You can do the same thing with a FAMC record. These may be the route by which I'll document the reasoning about relationships rather than use the incompletely implemented witness functionality. (Because it's an ...

I don't *think* they're the same thing Mike. See: All tab.png and Screenshot 2016-01-28 12.19.44.png The notes tab shows Spouse 2 note (as a shared note) for both members of the family, but not Spouse note for the individual in question (also Spouse note isn't attached to the other member of the cou...

Two things. 1. I didn't cover Witness notes -- these are also *not* shown on the Notes tab, but can only be seen when editing the Witness, or on the All tab. And they would be extremely complex to add to a custom tab with any flexibility (if it's possible at all). Not have I identified any way to di...

I'm reviewing how I work consistently with notes, in particular notes for an individual or a couple, and want to make sure I haven't missed any tricks... [I'm not covering Note Records here as I'm unlikely to make much if any use of those]. Unless I've overlooked something, my standard options for a...

I don't use diagrams, so it can't be that... (yes, I know, I'm an outlier but my mind works in text not pictures or sound -- same reason I can't listen to podcasts or talking radio or webcasts or watch most TV... I digress). But if Baptism or Christening dates are already shown in the focus window, ...

Mike, fairy snuff. With the caveat that everywhere an alternative date to birth date would have been displayed, the status quo remains (I have a vague memory of sometimes seeing baptism dates when there's no birth date although I can't find an example right now).

If Estimated Ages already take baptism into account in some mysterious way, then this wish list request is wrongly titled -- it should be a request to: 1. display dates estimated by FH when dates entered by the user are not available (using the estimation algorithm already in existence, so there is ...

Mike, refresh my memory -- do the Focus window and Property sheet display estimated dates produced by FH now (as opposed to calculated dates, or estimated dates entered by the user)? If they don't then this request is asking for 2 changes: 1. To display ages estimated by FH as well as calculated or ...

Candy, the plugin will need to be run once *for each file* so you can apply it to all of your 9 files. I'll leave others to comment on the detail as I'm not familiar with FTM.

Helen

I'm with Bill -- if there's an estimated birth date based on an age at an event, OK. But if a baptism doesn't have an age *and* a date, it shouldn't be used to estimate a birth date.

Unless this is definitely optional (and easy to turn off) I think it's a very bad idea, as it's based on a set of assumptions about families that are*not* universally applicable, and introduces data not supported by sources. My criteria for how acceptable it is are: does it generate a GEDcom based o...

Mike, I've now tested version 2.7.4 and it works perfectly, I particularly like the fact that all media linked to sources and/or events are handled consistently, but there is also an option to include a PDF file 'inline' in a report using the Magic Code feature, which will allow me to include (for e...

I'd enter them both as Male (which they ostensibly were, although we can't know for sure about Kate, medical science not being then what it is now) and as a Married Couple (which is what they believed they were and lived as for 40-odd years) and add a note describing the unusual aspect of the situat...

Mike, I will test this as soon as I can but it may not be for a day or so (am waist-deep in css at present and only slowly winning...)

Helen

That sounds like a significant improvement, Mike.

The page describing the fixes etc. says that the following standard fact definitions have been updated:

Birth, Adoption and Census

Mike -- thank you. As far as I have been able to test it, it works very well.

@Mike,

Personally I'd prefer the sub-folder approach, but others might find the other approach more familiar.

A caption would be an excellent enhancement.

@Mike, The "Magic codes" approach has promise, as it would mitigate the risks associated with manual double data-entry, by using a preliminary plug-in to populate a field that will pass through into the report with the relevant media details (ideally honoring any flags set on the media to exclude th...

@Colin, agreed -- using multi-page TIFF wouldn't be a solution even if FH didn't turn then into single page JPGs.

At present, the only media files that are included in a website are JPG files (other image media are converted to JPG files). It would be very useful to have the option to include 'non-image' media files (PDFs, txt files etc.) as links (URLs) from the website, allowing the non-image media to be disp...

That works in a simplistic fashion, Mike -- and if I use the Custom ID field, it shouldn't have much impact on the portability of the GEDcom. However... it is going to be a very error-prone set of manual steps, and still has limitations: 1. It depends on adding the same information twice to a source...