Family Historian User Group

I already use AS to enter Probate records using the death entry method with a suitable Autotext template (Which I can post if anyone is interested).

I then manually change the source created to Type=Probate and manually add the probate location , date and value of estate and link to the same source.

Same error this morning

You can add any text in the relationship field, it is not limited to what is in the drop down list.

One day I am going to get across and do some in place research

Please do Jane, you would be most welcome. Maybe you could do a Family historian course in conjunction with Manx National Heritage.

Also as a keen photographer you would be most welcome in my Photography shop.

Looks like your husband may have Manx connections Jane

FMP used to behave as Mike says, but has got better in the last 6-12 months.

It is actually a known windows problem. Windows will allow the long name at one level (Creation) then complains when you try to delete , move or copy.
I have also moved my documents folder from it's default location to a shorter path name, The default location can consume a lot of Characters.

As a work around, try renaming your "Family historian Projects" Folder to "FH Projects" or similar. You will need to re-point FH at the "New" project location. I know this only knocks 14 characters off the file path, but it could be enough to make a difference.

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Hi Mike,
I appreciate your point, I was just making the comment that the use of bef "baptism Date" for birth date can yield odd and unexpected results, and and also stops the "ageat" function producing results.

Hi Mike, I use two rows, so that can have a date range if needed. I have attached screenshots showing row filters and result set of both dates set the same The second row is to exclude individuals who already have a baptism image attached to a baptism source. Baptism Query Rows.JPG Baptism Query Res...

Mike, I have have found that age estimation does not work at all if the DOB is recorded as bef YYYY. I used to use bef "Baptism date" as birth date if no other evidence, but when building queries this meant that individuals were included who common sense shouldn't be. EG a query to find individuals ...

I have not had any problems and have used it just last week. My file has 55000+ individuals. I was doing find and replace on census ref:. But each run completed in about 2-3 minutes

Hi Mike,
Sorry been very busy.
No problems so far with updated plugin.

Initially after being run on the desktop, the Lines are: -- Table: {1} { ["WarnColor"]="255 0 255", ["JOHN-DESKTOP-Path"]="PublicPath\\Export", ["BodyColor"]="0 0 0", but lower down there is also: -- Table: {2} { ["RMT"]={3}, ...., ["Path"]="D:\\My Documents\\Dropbox\\FH Projects\\MorrisonV6\\Public...

Hi Mike, Solved: I had last used the plugin on my Desktop computer and not run it before on my laptop. The path to the export folder is absolute, so when run on my laptop, that path does not exist. On Desktop, My Documents is D:\My Documents. On Laptop it is in the default Location under Users on C:...

Hi Mike, Just tried running V2.6 and then 2.7 in FTA and GSP mode and get an error as follows [string "C:\ProgramData\Calico Pie\Family Historian\..."]:532: Unable to open file in "wb" mode. C:\Users\John\Dropbox\FH Projects\MorrisonV6\Public\Export\MorrisonV6 GSP UTF8.ged C:\Users\John\Dropbox\FH P...

Hi Ann,
In the filter box at the top of the records window, just type in Pickeri and the record list will show only those records that match (including both variants)

I don't use UK as a country in AS. I have separate countries set up as England, Wales, Isle of Man, Scotland. This enables me to better name the sources and display different Icons for each county. Also the Welsh 1891, 1901 & 1911 and the Isle of Man 1901 & 1911 census had an extra column for Langua...

No Problems so far

When doing Batch entries in AS I always disable autosave in FH (I have snapshot disabled as well) as I used to get your symptoms because the FH autosave was upsetting things.

MBE OBE etc are Titles, as they entitle you to put those very important letters after your name. So I would use the Title attribute in those cases.

Yes, it is giving free access to non UK hints.

Choose <Internet> <Internet Data Matches> click on FindMyPast then click on <Settings> and change the filter to accepted , then click OK twice and your accepted matches should now be visible.

Just install the upgrade over your version 5, all your settings will be retained. If you still need to use V5 on another computer then you also need to make a copy of your project for V5 as the V6 data is not liked by V5.