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For UK non-Church of England churches, I identify the denomination in the address field as most churches now do, e.g. St Roberts Catholic Church. This is also consistent with the addresses/locations of most non-conformist churches, as the denomination is (was) often the only 'name' accorded to a chu...

There is a significant difference between program data backup and software settings backup. Data backup is fully built in to Family Historian and is totally reliable IME, but program settings backup isn't directly supported, which is what the Plugins do for Family Historian. Similarly RM7 and 8 have...

Not surprised at Lorna's analysis as many of those that have downloaded and used the 'new' version probably did so for comparison purposes as a result of following the development thread. I would also not be surprised if the majority of those still have both Backup and Restore plugins installed. Nor...

@USMC7312 The latest installation file is available from https://www.family-historian.co.uk/install7 If the computer is not recognised when the installer runs you will need to register the installation online using your original Account details, just as you did when you first installed the software....

Teresa, Nick beat me to answer but looking at your screenshots I was also going to say just choose 'Yes' The screen is asking for confirmation that you want to replace the existing Death Fact, which has no sources with a new Sourced Fact (the normal situation), or add the fact as an alternative Deat...

Teresa,

You need to press "Select" in the second box on the right can side of the first screenshot to carry the name across to input screen (and, of course, confirm that the correct individual has been highlighted).

Mervyn

Fully in tune with Adrian's comments especially: "It seems to me that sorting is an important aspect of the requirements - does Vincent need to be sorted with "van" or with "Gogh"? Do spelling variations need to be sorted separately or together - and what is a spelling variation anyway? " There appe...

Enno,

There is also a Plugin https://pluginstore.family-historian.co ... ted-source that you might want to try experimenting with.

Mervyn

Mark, Have tested on both: - Crossover 21.2, which i believe still uses Wine 7.0 'Stable'; and - Linux (Debian), using Wine 7.8 (Staging) which contains the very latest developments/bugfixes under testing. - Which seems to have the added 'advantage' of being able to use FH's internal Browser Window....

Mark,

O.K. I'll watch for any updates and retest as necessary.

Well done.

Mervyn

This might help: https://support.google.com/drive/?hl=en#topic=14940

Mervyn

Mark, Seems it may not be as much of an issue as I first experienced. More of a need to adopt a slightly different process. Ran through this again several times and when the 'Windows' popup message appeared: Screenshot 2022-05-15 at 14.51.32.jpg 1. If I chose 'yes' at this point, the the background ...

Mark, I've now run the backup restore processes several times: Windows <-> Linux <-> Crossover (Mac) <-> Windows All processes run as you described, very speedy with only one problem. There just has to be one! With Crossover the Backup process works with no problem, but when running the restore proc...

Mark, I'll run some tests and let you know the results a.s.a.p. The Crossover Build I use is based on a 32-bit Prefix, but my Linux installation uses a 64-bit Prefix and is always on the latest WINE staging build, not the 'old' versions that Ubuntu/Mint etc. tend to provide, so should add some furth...

Chris, This sounds like a really curious problem! A couple of tests you could perform just to try to identify whether this exclusive to the FH7 application, which I would expect to be simply hooking the Windows File Manager "Copy to Folder" command. I am, of course, presuming that there aren't any v...

"Chrisv, Have just tried the actions as you described and got the same message initially, but when pressing OK the required Folder was created and the copy inserted inside. Creating a 'copy folder' first and selecting that allowed the copy process to proceed normally. The warning/error message could...

Peter, Could the annotation be a cross-reference to an earlier Birth Registration that did take place? I have come across that type of entry several times when a father's name was omitted from the original Registration and a Re-registration occurred later to provide the 'corrected' information. Perh...

I'm convinced that this is nothing to do with any programming decision by Calico Pie. IME external 'documents/files' launched via a Family Historian link will open in whatever external application is designated in Windows as the default (using the appropriate file extension). For example, with the l...

Mike,

After all my years working with Windows apps and their multiple options for achieving the same goal, I still tend to get used to 'one-way' that I find quickest for me. Here, my omission was down to me hardly ever using the 'Date Entry Assistant' for entering dates.

Mervyn

@jclifford,

I use separate (custom) facts/events for UK Birth/Death/Marriage Registrations, but would suggest that, if you go this route, you add a Sort Date (using the 'All' Tab) for each Registration entry to ensure they are sorted into the correct order.

Mervyn

Mark, It's OK to have multiple versions of FH installed in WINE, as long as you create them in separate PREFIXES (Bottles), but you do need to point them at different data folders because of the 'database' incompatibilities, e.g. I currently have a "Family Historian 6" Folder in Documents, plus the ...

Mark, No need to apologise for trying to break new ground. The initial plugin produced an immediate application crash ( not a system crash) with FH7 but fine with FH6, so it's presumably down to application change(s) between '6' and '7'. No problem experienced with the 'simple' version: Screenshot 2...

Mark, Have just tested the Wine Detector on my Crossover for Mac installations of FH6 and 7. In FH6, it works as indicated in your screenshots, but (for me) FH7 'crashed' when the plugin was run, i.e. FH7 simply shut down, but no error message was generated. No harm done to the FH7 installation, so ...

Mark, Good luck with your efforts. Happy to test whatever you come up with. Just for info. I connected a working Crossover FH7 Wine.app to a Windows 10 Virtual Machine as a shared folder and was able to access the Root folder (image below) the files shown are those that are exclusive to Wine install...

Further info. Having checked further, there are several files created that only exist in a Wine.app and which clearly identify that an installed Windows application is running (or attempting to run) in a Wine environment. These files are only created during/after installation of the Windows software...