Family Historian User Group

Mike...thinking about the versions in the store you might want to check Map Life Facts...I believe the store is at 3.6 whereas I have 3.6.2 (not sure if it was my or your edit) probably dealing with CSS formatting?

Sorry Mike...I thought I'd closed things, bit distracted at the moment...nothing adverse to report...I would go ahead and publish !

OK thanks...I'll take a look at the latest version, especially OBJE tags. I eventually managed to review the thousands of hints generated...very useful (more facts and people and neatly linked proof) although painful at times (the more hints you review the more suddenly arise, and data needs checkin...

Thanks Mike... OK...the format decision was a good one...everything looks tidy and as clear as can be. The formatting works well on the INDI, FAM and SOUR notes, I can see OBJE notes are without. I've tested alignment: Christening appears to have a space between the tag and colon - it simply needs r...

Understood, thanks.

I'm not sure why we should consider spaces if 1 or 2 tabs works but I tested anyway.

All work except "3) Burial: a" which requires 3 spaces.

I put all of those in FTM with one tab: 3) 1st Communion: a 3) Author: a 3) Baptism: a 3) Bat Mitzvah: a 3) Group/Caste: a 3) Child Count: a 3) Christening: a 3) Christen Adult: a 3) Confirmation: a 3) Cremation: a 3) Custom Id: a 3) Description: a 3) Divorce Filed: a 3) Divorce: a 3) Education: a 3...

OK will check those new ones...

In FTM I still find Author and Status require 2 tabs as defined correctly in your table...if you are getting different results to me the issue might be the use of different font in FH versus FTM.

AUTH = { Label="Author:\t\t";
STAT = { Label="Status:\t\t";

Mike

Didn't want to confuse things...just noting the FH description but quite happy with your shorter "ed" version...if you confirm your preferred final choices I'll run them thru FTM again with suffixes and tabs and data and let you which require 1 or 2 tabs with the standard font.

Using existing descriptions I separated those with 1 tab from those with 2 and did two tests to find errors. The test format was: "3)" & space & description & ":" & tab/tab & value All those currently with 1 tab worked fine. However please note 3) LDS Endowment: was just one space away from overflow...

List of descriptions: I suspect your definitely want to fix "bas mitzfah", use "ID", get rid of Z in "Standardized" possibly EMail capital M etc..the others are not so important. I can't present columns, these were pasted from excel (existing descr, fh descr or Y means "same", * means attention). : ...

I remember you used "~" at some point too!

The best so far for me is:

2) Children:{tab tab}3

I'll test tabs as described, for now please use the ones you already have and I'll identify issues with any of those.

Perhaps so, although if they appear directly after something there is often an implied connection...but frankly, after coming back to look at the examples a few times, I am leaning toward the third example anyway, level first...simply because the space between level and tab aligns...pushed to a deci...

OK...so I'll run thru the current tag list and send some suggestions...I noticed FH is not consistent, don't have any real problems with any to be fair, also hate "z" used instead of "s" which is why I picked on it...prefer ID than Ident...will post a list shortly for you to pick and choose. Still t...

Quite a nice way of settings the rules! I don't quite know how best to respond but am willing to investigate. I took the table and manipulated it into its components in Excel. I then compared descriptions with FH's descriptions: Some are changed to make shorter - OK Quite a few are changed for other...

Yes all true. We might leave it a day or two for any other options to crop up. Frankly, it might come down to option 0: what we have now (with minor adjustments perhaps). It might be the lesser of 4 evils as: it looks best by far with the default font (FTM only offers standard or large) it is correc...

Mike...I'm looking at tabs for NCHI Children value and custom attribute value. Obviously I can only comment on my setup...(res, fonts etc). FTM appears to have a choice of standard or large font only. In the FTM note field, when I delete any spaces and tabs between the pretty tag and value then put ...

Thanks Bill

I'm hoping there will be a few of us interested in the finished round trip. It must be true that FH is better AND we need Ancestry !

Thanks for your offer of help...keep tuned and we can work together when the right time comes !

Hi Bill Thanks for trying to follow all this stuff...I'm pleased to hear there is some potential interest out there despite how boring and technical this may sound at times! I hope I can answer your question clearly...why do we need FTM, why not simply link FH directly with Ancestry? Reasons include...

That all sounds great. Thanks. I accept your reasoning for the space indents etc. I see no compelling argument for pretty tags in those other records...the only small issue is changing later as the import would have to decode both approaches. I'll grab the new plugin and have a good rumage around ov...

Mike, thanks...yes I don't use Named Lists, I am thinking about other users...sorry for confusion. I am keen that defaults preserve data and options allow users not to preserve data. I'm sorry I didn't quite understand fully that the necessary data for Named Lists survives the round trip anyway in t...

David, I bought it from Ancestry in late February 2015 for £19.99...perhaps the "upgrade" is deliberately misleading...it upgrades you from Ancestry to Ancestry with FTM perhaps :) Thanks Jane...useful ! EDIT: I just phoned the Ancestry shop on 0345 688 5114. They confirm the £19.99 version is full ...

I bought it for £19.99 with no subscriptions to Ancestry as I have that already. Here is a site: http://www.genealogysupplies.com/family ... aker-2014/

Thanks Jim...we're trying to get our valuable Family Historian info into Ancestry.com (via their Family Tree Maker software) so we can match against vital records etc...we're there now...next we want to get it back to FH again !

Source records for places (and named lists that seem to use TEXT): Note that the notes for normal source records work OK although my preference is to indent the tag but not the data. When there is a citation to a source (i.e. Named List, Spouse Sealing Place) then the tabs in the bottom panel for Li...