Family Historian User Group

I agree, I have moved my projects folder to dropbox, so no worries there. I also use synctoy to sync the application data floder to a flash drive and the to whichever computer I'm using. Apparantly dropbox are working on an update to allow you to choose folders to sync, without actually moving them ...

On Your old computer, go to the projects folder, find your project foler, the right click and 'Send To' your flash drive. Move to flash drive to your notebook and copy the project folder into the projects folder, The one you have already created will be overwritten, not merged. That way you will hav...

I have succeeded in replicating the behaviour. If the text is only deleted then it reverts on save. If text is also added, then all the changed are kept. I have done a set of screen captures to demonstrate, but all I did was: A: entered 2 or three people (I chose family historian demo file and used ...

The file was a zip file but hadn't uploaded properly.
I have sent it to Jane and she will add it manually, so file should be available later.

I have a full set of England , Wales, Isle of Man , Scotland, Canada and US icons, that I will try and put on the downloads section over the weekend

From Memory, I think Extra text is retained, it is things like names and birth places, that, when edited to reflect what is in the census, they revert to what is in the gedcom file. So if names have been shortened to initials and place names shortened, that's when it happens. I will try and generate...

There are some Wales and Isle of Man census templates already in the downloads section

I am using default everything, although I have vreated my own 19101 and 1911 Isle of Man versions, these are just copied from the UK version with an added language field. I am using method 2 This behaviour has just also happened on my win XP machine. Is it just that I should always untick the auto o...

I always use the auto button to generate the text. When I modify the text and untick the auto option at the bottom, the modified text is saved. If I leave the auto option ticked (which is the default) the text reverts to the originally created auto text and saves with no warning. It happens very qui...

Hi Nick.
That is what I thought was supposed to happen.
Only with win 7 x64 and AS2 x64 even after you have typed in the box the text gets auto done again on save, with no warnings

It's taken me a while to track down what's been happening. Two computers, one running XP 32 bit and AS2 32 bit. The other is on W7 64bit and AS2 64 bit. Win XP machine: census entry. Enter census details and click auto text. Edit atuto created text to match actual census. Regardless of whether the a...

You can only show one name at a time in the property box.
Click + then highlight the name you want to show, then select
The name you want will then 'Swap' with the previous Primary Name.

Thanks Jane.
That works a treat.
It ignores what is entered in the field and works off the internally calculated value, so text to number conversion is not needed

Thanks Jane, But how can I specify and range such as older than 50 but under 60. I have tried putting the expression in twice with and in between, but that isn't valid =IsTrue(AgeAt(%INDI%,%INDI.DEAT.DATE%) 50) I have Icons for different age bands, and up to now have been setting flags,. If i can ge...

I'm new to using expressions, although I have succeeded in modifying queries. Thanks to Jane, I have succesfully added an expression to a diagram to display an icon that is pool number dependant. I would now like to create an expression to diplay an icon to match age at death. Say age at death <1, a...

Thanks, I do most of my work through the all relatives diagram. Knowing which pool I am working on will tell me how much work I need to do to connect to pool 1. Am I right in thinking that the root person is always pool 1? I will male a set of numbered pool ball type icons with numbers to show which...

Is there anyway to show an individuals pool number in the all relatives diagram?

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I hadn't realised that the associated persons list could be customised.
I was mainly thinking in advance for when weddings is added.
I want to experiment with adding a fact to show that the brother of one party was the Minister.

Nick.
In AS 2 Baptisms, associated persons can be just a name, or someone in your file. Could this be extended to the Minister as well?
I have quite a few instances where the minister is actually a close family member.

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Is there an easy way to search & replace dates. I have just realised that one of my custom AS census templates had the wrong date for the 1861 census. I have tried the search & replace plugin, but this doesn't work on dates (or is it possible to modify it to do so?) I have just under 4000 entries th...

You could also use the ancestry world tree as a source (unreliable or questionable)
This would make it easy to search for records attached to that source.
When proven, the source could then be removed.

The Census images from find my past are not jpeg images, but dejavu files. Have you re-installed the enhanced dejavu viewer from find my past?

The keyboard issue sounds like the one that used to happen with a straight UK install of windows. The US layout keyboard used to be installed by default (the main thing to show up is the reversal of @ and ', but there are other issues as well, such as dissappearance of £ symbol). I don't use a MAC, ...

To add an automaticaaly updated date, cut and paste the following
Last Modified :   01-Apr-2010 16:42

The date, although showing 1st april at the moment, will update every time you save.
The part [Last Modified :  ] is optional, it's just the way I use it. You can put in any text you like

This has also been reported in the FH v3 Threads, and the common factor appears to be McAfee AV supplied through BT (Although it may apply to other McAfee users as well). You may have to contact McAfee or BT help to sort it out.