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Thanks Mike, I'll have a 'play'..... I'm currently adding it by hand anyway, so if all else fails I'll continue with that.
I've managed to create the expression to add a Cremation (because burial didn't cover that), so am beginning to feel that my understanding of expressions is improving

Thanks very much Mike Marriage Certificate is now working, thank you . That means I think that I should be able to work out how to do the Birth & Death Certificates in the same way. I'm slowly getting there! With regard to the Early death: I have been entering the age as given on the cert or burial ...

I know that almost a year has elapsed! I have worked intermittently at establishing the diagram icons using Expressions and they are working well for census entries but I can't get to grips with the following: Early death - where a child dies under 5 Using the sources title to differentiate between ...

Thank you! I think it's option 4 - those that DO have the flag?
I now have them in the list - brilliant

Having braved and conquered expressions in some limited way (thanks to Mike's patience!), I feel ready to tackle the next part of my FH naivety - Named Lists! I created a named list ages ago, but have never used it because I couldn't see how/if I could make FH do what I would like to do with it ... ...

I have a flag and a round icon with an M in it (actually a converted stamp from SnagIt) to indicate marriage index (I actually have similar for birth and death index refs). I add the year and the full ref into the note. Does MARR.DATE use the full date? If it uses just the year then my strategy is i...

Thanks again Mike In answer to your last question, up to now I have only entered the marriage date if I either have the certificate certificate or the parish record, entering through AS. Other instances I have dealt with using directentry, a custom icon and record flag; I guess I may need to rethink...

OK, I need help! How do I get a marriage icon to display when I have a marriage date - not simply for having added a spouse. I have tried various Data References and I've either ended up with no icon or an icon as soon as I added a spouse, which isn't much help and is driving me mad! I suspect that ...

Thanks for spreading the discussion Peter. As I have Oz and NZ and a couple of US bods as well, it could be very useful. Mike, you will be pleased to hear that I am having considerable success with BMDs and census expressions; it all still feels a bit like magic when I do the data entry in AS and sw...

The following link is broken
https://www.family-historian.co.uk/help ... press.html

This page is linked from "For a full list see Expressions and Contexts of Use" on this Knowledge base page...
https://fhug.org.uk/kb/kb-article/under ... ferences/

Sorry, one more thing.... this link is dead - it's the link that is in the para "For a full list see Expressions and Contexts of Use"
https://www.family-historian.co.uk/help ... press.html

I'm pleased to report that I've done the '41 and '51 expressions successfully.
One thing I cannot work out how to do is delete the appropriate Record Flag from the Record Flag list - did you just mean untick it? If not how do I remove it from the list?

Thanks again for your patience and help

One step at a time
I hadn't thought of doing Early Deaths that way. Thanks for the suggestion

Thank you Mike, I'll give that a go shortly, but I can see how this works. One other thing, whilst I think of it.... I also have some quirky Record flags for 'early deaths' (i.e. infant deaths), 'research suspended' and 'further non-urgent research required', which also have icons. I assume that I c...

Thanks Mike, I think that I have absorbed as much information from your links as I can until I try it, so I'm going to start gingerly moving in that direction! So, I have used Ancestral Sources to enter the census data (1851 to 1881) for this couple and their family. Expanded.jpg The Record Flag and...

Thank you...I'll reply tomorrow when I've read thoroughly

A little context ..... Long time user, but never really had time to be adventurous and investigate expressions and PlugIns. I'm using V6 and consolidating work done across a PC and a laptop with my Projects on an external drive that was moved between two locations prior to lockdown 1. I am now perma...

Thank you for your tips, Peter. I have tried a few things and have found that if base the All Relatives on Alice, rather than her daughter, I get the layout I require. Your solution for straightening the dog-legs also works - thanks. Feeling less-frustrated about charting than I was earlier[smile][c...

That does cures the length problem, but then problem 1 looks even worse, beacuse the dotted line to Alice is almost on top of the solid line. I can't understand why (a) Alice's box is where it is in the first place - other than to optimise the layout (which I don't care about) (b)why I can't just dr...

Thanks Peter, I'll try that out.

I'm trying to generate an All Relatives diagram, but failing miserably to get a layout that I am happy with. Problem 1: Edward is the first-born and I want Alice to appear to his right. Alice's child is the root, but even so, I'm not happy to have this layout. http://www.fhug.org.uk/images/uploads/d...

Is there anyway to change the vertical spacing of the text? If you try to print out a timeline, any text that is wrapped-around appears partially on top of the entry below. Also, when you print it, you lose any pages >1 It's fine on the screen when viewed at 100%, but I've tried several different wa...

Sorry, but I'm still struggling with the layout of sources. (a) With an individual narrative report, the 'Sources' title is smaller than with the Descendant report. How can I make these the same? (b) With an individual narrative report, Hdg Level 2 doesn't seem to appear in the Hdg Style section, so...

I had exacty the same thing happen last week. I simply couldn't work out why it wasn't working, so in the end (in desperation as much as anything), I closed down FH and then restarted it and it all worked perfectly.
Hope you get it sorted out.

Thanks I'll give it a go!