Family Historian User Group

Gerry, It's an application that I am (slowly) developing to keep track of research activities -- what have I done? What did I find (or not find)? Have I recorded the results in my FH project? What's in progress and planned? Intention is that I will (among other things) avoid repeating searches; be a...

I wouldn't dismiss it as useless, Jon. Although Notes are useful for holding free format text, they can alternatively be used to present formatted information with a particular paragraph structure, in which case GetParagraph is very useful for analysing the contents. (I've seen this recently in a GE...

It's absolutely for genealogy -- or rather, for research into people, places, addresses and history topics -- and is intended to allow me to keep track of what sources I've looked at for what information and what conclusions I drew, as well as planning further work. I've got a working draft for pers...

Not me, Sarah -- I'm busy (slowly) working on a Research Manager application...[smile]

For consistency, should there also be a menu command to save a copy of a project? Where would you suggest this command should go?

I know what you mean about the volume of threads! And as I said, there's a workaround I can live with.

If you need a beta-tester for not-GEDcom census, I'd be delighted to help.[grin]

Nick, Can I just check my understanding about how GEDcom census works with V4 projects/multimedia please? When linking to a new image, even if that image is within the relevant Projects directory structure, it creates an 'absolute' link not a 'relative' one. If (like me) you're taken the decision to...

I've developed an Access-based Family History Research Manager to help me keep track of what I've done, am doing and intend to do some day... linked to Sources, and with a facility to generate standardised source citations based on any system you care to devise. It's only fit for my use at present (...

If you can't wait until jane comes back, you can tick the Show Completed option and scan through for the ones added in version 4. Not quick, unless there's a particular area of functionality in which you're interested.

It works fine. You need to open the GEDcom file located within the project directory structure -- under the .fh_data directory.

Have you tried View - Record Links? I don't have any submitter records, so can't test it myself.

Worked fine for me. Now to get to grips with it...

In manufacturing and due for delivery near the end of April doesn't sound like May to me...

Doesn't seem to have done Bill Gates much harm, announcing new versions months (and years) before they're ready... Seriously, I don't mind waiting. It isn't as if my current version of the software stopped working when the announcement came out. And there's the best part of two weeks of April left b...

Click on the envelope under a post from the person you want to message...

http://www.hm-waterguard.org.uk/ might be of interest.

Customs man?

Narelle, I'm afraid I can't help with your query about user groups in Sydney, but with regard to the upgrade to V4 which is due out in February (1) no, it isn't necessary although I suspect you'll want to check out what it offers when it's available, once you've got to grips with version 3 and (2) d...

Shown Mills recommends standard formats for (1) creating entries in a source list, and (2) citing (or referring to) those sources to support a 'fact'. She provides 'model records' for a very wide variety of source types, including online resources, written resources, images, artefacts, transcripts, ...

Chris, as is often the case, you've made my points much better than I made them...

I've found the Shown Mills books useful, both in helping me to think how I want to handle sources and as reference material when I have a particular type of source to cite. I use Notes associated with each Source or citation to record the relevant information for which FH doesn't make explicit provi...

Sounds like something for the wish list... I'd vote for it, but not at such a high priority as other items.

FWIW, I record the name the person used most throughout their life as the primary name and record any others as alternatives, with notes explaining the circumstances.

A wiki seems an excellent way of collecting this kind of information -- and for finding it as well!