Family Historian User Group

Many thanks for these inputs, particularly from Nick, pointing out that I have been using Source Driven Data Input for years. Reviewing my past practice, I have used AS for censuses, creating birth records along the way, but tend to be a lumper for BMDs with references to the record in the Where wit...

Thanks, Mike. Light is slowly creeping over the horizon. I am still at the stage of not really seeing the difference between Source Driven and Event Driven Data Entry. Whereas I thought that one piece of media could act as the source for several events, that piece of media is actually the starting p...

Thanks, Jane. I did switch on Automatic Source Citation (which I have not used up to now) but that does not help as there is no DEA for newspapers. I had expected to see a dialogue something like AS, where there is a list of individuals. Select an individual and display the Events and attach a citat...

I have just moved to V7 and am slowly learning where to find things. ( Confession: I started on V3 and still prefer to work from the Records window, hardly ever using the Focus window.) This post chronicles how I have misunderstood at least one new feature. I decided to have a go at Source Driven Da...

Thanks for confirming this change in behaviour. I was beginning to think I had false memory syndrome. Clearly, MS have not implemented the Recent list on pinned items, though it does work in other locations. Perhaps it will come back some day on a minor upgrade.

Thanks, Adrian. Right-clicking on the desktop shortcut or the pinned entry in the Start menu just gives me the usual Windows options sush as unpinning, etc, but, following your hint, if I click on the icon in the taskbar, the Recent files are visible (and not just those opened since the upgrade). I ...

In Win 10, when I right-clicked on the FH icon from the Start menu, I was given a choice of projects to open, which I found very handy. I have pinned FH to the Start menu in Win 11 but the right-click trick no longer works. Wouls it require action from Calico Pie to restore this function? (I have no...

You are too good to us, Nick. I was one of those who found expressions more difficult to use in order to add census icons to diagrams. It isn't just the need to learn some abstruse syntax. There are some practical difficulties. To use an expression, that expression needs to be able to look at someth...

Ah! Thanks, Nick. Light dawns. I don't know enough about these scripts to create my own but I can usually follow what they try to do. I take it that {COUNTRY} is what is selected from the Region pull-down (incidentally, the associated tip says County) so that is just what I want. I had virtually dec...

Thanks again. Your S&R plug-in is certainly a powerful piece of kit. It would do the job but the titles were generated in the format of Type-Year-Place-Ref No-Other Info, where Type is Census The plug-in would pick up the country in the Place entry and modify that. I don't think that would be neat. ...

I am sorry, but I don’t know what this piece of code does. I want to show a census icon on diagrams. This used to be done using flags, and AS used to allow you to choose different flags for different regions. This has now been removed and we must use expressions to call up the icon, using the source...

I have suggested on the AS forum that Nick consider adding the Region as selected from the pull-down menu to the default title, but with UK rather than the individual country so the the Title would be Census UK Year etc. I am now editing my existing census titles to this form. I have tried it and it...

I am trying to replace census flags with expressions. A difficulty is getting the expression to identify if the census is for the UK or, for example, Canada. Canada is easily identified as the census record title includes what has been entered in Place. However, I do not include United Kingdom in UK...

Thanks, Mike. I had tried to find a relevant discussion but wasn't bright enough to get the exact form of words needed. I see what is required but I don't think it is going to be easy. AS creates a title from an amalgamation of Type, Place, Ref ID (which includes the year from the pull-down menu) an...

If I may jump in here, I, too, have been trying to catch up with the idea of doing away with census flags. (I know expressions have been available for years, but, when they were introduced, they were thought to be for advanced or techie users. I think they were not wrong in that.) I have successfull...

Having now identified at least 5 DNA groups, I've found it to be too much hassle to try to differentiate each one on a diagram. I have therefore used the data ref %INDI.CAST% as a boolean value. If it is present, the individual's box is outlined in red. This shows up clearly in the diagrams and show...

Thanks, Mike. I'll give that a go. I have now added more groups (with more descriptive names) and it is working OK. I have had multiple matches from Ancestry, some useless as there are no trees, some frustrating because the trees don't go far enough or lack detail, and some which are very strong but...

I am experimenting with using the Group/Caste attribute. I have created a group, DNA Group 1, and given this attribute to the common ancestors, then copied it to the next descendant in turn, ending up at the person to whom I am matched. I have also initially added this attribute to my ancestors back...

My wife and I have been given DNA test kits as a gift. We have submitted these and now received notices of "hits" from Ancestry, mostly at 4th cousin level or greater. In most cases, I was not aware of these people and they certainly did not appear in the abbreviated trees we have on Ancestry so the...

Thank you, Mike. I must improve my searching of the Knowledge Base as that link didn't turn up. Delete didn't work from the Query window as FH would not load the file. I didn't know about the View menu link, but that worked. You are probably right about my attempt to delete the file. FH was open at ...

Some time ago I created a custon query (How_related, note the underscore), possibly by modifying sombody else's. For some time now, possibly after an upgrade, FH started telling me that it was not a standard FH file. I then loaded the "How Related" query from the knowledge base which, of course, wor...

I have just applied the update but my antivirus would not let it re-start as it thinks fh.exe is dangerous. I have got past it by excluding fh.exe from virus checks but this is not really acceptable. I seem to remember this problem cropping up some years ago. I am using F-secure and it is the Deep G...

Thanks for your input, Mike. Sorry about the confusion on version numbers. I am on FH 6.2.5 and AS 5.2.0. I managed to transpose the version number of the plug-in from 4.6 to 6.4. Things may be settling down. I did another census, this time with AS on top of the Records window. When it came to re-st...

Further info: I just did another census entry. This time, I minimised FH before completing the AS entry. I got the reload question as usual and clicked Yes. The FH icon remained in the task bar and when I clicked on it, it came up OK. So, the rogue behaviour occurs when I am using AS in front of the...

For the last couple of days, when I use AS for census entries, the program has failed to restart once AS has done its job. AS shuts down and, on the FH records screen (which is the one I use for data entry), I get the usual message about the file having been updated and do I want to re-load. When I ...