Family Historian User Group

I would be in favour of removing it, Jane, as long it was clear to users how to communicate problems and suggestions back to the creator.

Thanks, Mike. Things are starting to look a lot better. What now strikes me is the pages Contribute your Knowledge and About Contribute your Knowledge are effectively saying exactly the same thing. Could the About... simply be abandoned?

Mike : As a matter of interest, what sections of Knowledge Base > Contribute Your Knowledge did you visit before attempting any editing? ALL of them, Mike, all of them. Mike : I have added some Quick Start Steps to the Knowledge Base > Contribute Your Knowledge > Beginners User Guide. Is that anyth...

OK Mike, thanks for your positive response. Just a thought: would it be helpful to create an "Improving the KB - overview" page which (a) welcomes input from all and sundry, and (b) summarises in one place each of the steps needed to edit existing pages, and to add new ones? Just brief numbered list...

Sad, but not unexpected. You ask about the issues I had when first uploading a Query to the KB. From memory, in no particular order, and entirely my subjective opinion: 1. The "Add Family Historian or Ancestral Sources Download Form" is confusingly named; it implies I'm about to download a copy of F...

I wrote an Individual query and used the =RecordId(%INDI.FAMS>%) function. Until yesterday, I hadn't realised that functions could be used in a Query, probably because the FH help is so dismissive on this subject.

Thank you, Mike. Problem solved.

Suppose I discover that I have recorded John Smith married to the same Mary Jones as two separate marriages. I want to merge the two families, so I'd like to run a query which reports the Family Rec Id of all JS/MJ marriages. I thought that Family as Spouse > Miscellaneous> Automated Record ID would...

I recently uploaded a handful of Queries to the FHUG Knowledge Base, and was surprised at the difficulties I had. Not technical glitches -- everything (eventually) worked fine; rather, it was hard to discover full details of the steps involved. Obviously part of the problem is my ageing brain, but I...

Thanks, Jane. Everything is fine.

Jane,

I've added a handful of ONS queries to the KB; please update the Downloads and Links index. (Perhaps the need for this step should be documented somewhere?)

Many thanks, Roger

Sorry, Mike, it's very clear that you don't suffer from the problem as I do. TextPad (an excellent general-purpose text editor) has exactly this feature, and it's wonderful: spot the error and fix it in less than a second. I know all about the general-purpose 'solutions' that you suggest; I have the...

Typing with my head down, I often make the annoying discovery that I'd earlier slipped into Caps Lock, so I'm now looking at a passage where what should have been in lowercase was in uppercase, and vice versa. bELIEVE ME, IT'S NOT THAT HARD TO DO. What I'd like is to be able to select some text, pre...

Sorrry if this is already on the Wishlist; even more so if FH already implements. Typing with my head down, I often make the annoying discovery that I'd earlier slipped into Caps Lock, so I'm now looking at a passage where what should have been in lowercase was in uppercase, and vice versa. bELIEVE ...

Sure! Advice is useless if it can't be heard.

[Mike Tate says: I have added fhugdownloads:contents:service_one-name_study_techniques|> Service ~ One-Name Study Techniques]

Dear Marguerite, I've been using the -- outstanding -- FH program to study One Name for the best part of ten years. I currently have over 1000 completely independent trees, held within a single project, and this structure has given me exactly zero problems; it really is the only way to go. Mike is t...

John, John, John, I have read your latest misfortune over and over, and I still have no idea what you want do and why you seem to unable to. You really do need to take a lot more care in describing your problems. Unless your query is carefully and clearly worded, other users will not be able to unde...

Nick, I'm really not knocking Ancestral Sources; it's a fantastic resource -- AS craftily hides a load of s-and-h in making attributions, for which we're all extremely grateful. But, I strongly feel that users should understand the basic principles on which GEDCOM, and FH, and AS are based; without ...

As an alternative to Ancestral Sources, you can easily do it youself. 1. Create a new Source record. Mine look like this. 2. On the Media tab, click Add Media and then Insert from File to attach your image to the Source Record. 3. On each family member, go to the Facts tab, click Add Fact, then Cens...

I've had a message from somebody using my Northern Firths website and relating my data to stuff they've seen on Webtrees. I've not come across this product, but it seems to produce a diagramatic display; is it worth investigating?

I'm not (really; well ok, yes I am) having a go at CP here, while reflecting on recent history. As far as I can recollect, FH version 6 was (pre-) released around December 2014 (that is, 18 months ago). Almost immediately, problems with autofill on Places were reported; the response was a resounding...

I'm attempting to illustrate why the FH Place autofill mechanism isn't working for me. For some background on why I use this style for Places, see http://www.firthworks.com/genealogy/RRR/index.html#R7. It's worked well for me for the past eight or so years. I'm giving three consective example of the...

Funny, I'm not seeing any improvement in auto-complete Places -- exactly as bad as before...

Thank you, Lorna. Things are always clearer in the morning.

Sorry -- senior moment, I have a number of Places of the form "*.ESS" or "*.KEN" which, with hindsight, would be better classified as part of Greater London. I can create a List of such places, but I can't seem to find a way of displaying that list on the map, such that I can decide which are indeed...