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So rather than doing any real work this afternoon, I have been having a look at creating and converting some flags to see how they look in FH. Unfortunately I found using the supplied flags rather aesthetically unpleasing. Because they are all different sizes and shapes, I had to alter the Icon Size...

I'm trying to get my mind around how you do this given that when you select an icon you specify dpi (dots per inch?) as the size - so the actual size will be a function of the height of the image, the resolution in which it was saved (the combination of which gives you the "dot height" (?)) and the...

Mark1834 wrote: ↑

07 Dec 2022 23:47

Have CP simply copied a library of public domain images without considering their fitness for purpose?

I'm going to guess yes

I would suggest, based on the sets of icons I have made myself, that 1k - 5k is about normal, but the more complicated flags may take more space. I don't know how accurate you want to be, but a lot of flags have different aspect ratios to each other and that should probably be respected. I can help ...

jelv wrote: ↑

04 Dec 2022 23:04

According to the transcription it reads "Both Parents Alive"

I hope that if you do find obvious transcription errors that you will report them to FindMyPast. Yes I do report transcription errors to FMP where feasible to do so, and especially if the transcription is so bad it has stopped me finding someone and I have had to use other search fields, etc., to g...

Thanks Nick. I don't know how I missed that help! I was using the in-program help and I'm sure it wasn't there, but I have just re-checked and it is! Perhaps it came down in the Beta update I recently installed. I'm not sure it was me that asked about the family ID, but based on my performance menti...

Hi Nick, I have been trying to find a {FAMILY.ID} keyword, that would work in a similar fashion to the {KEYPERSON.ID} / {SPOUSE.ID} keywords, i.e., it would return the family ID for marriage entries. I am not sure if I cannot find it, or it does not exist. If the latter, do you think you would be ab...

Never mind the fact that whoever transcribed them must have done it in a rush as some don't match. I would never trust the transcription unless I have no other choice. In my experience, I haven't had too much trouble with the details you are talking about, but the transcription of names, places and...

If you are looking at the transcription, the details are as highlighted below: Screenshot 2022-11-29 161144.jpg If you don't have access to the transcription, the details are shown in various places. The schedule number is in the top right hand of the schedule: Screenshot 2022-11-29 161221.jpg Where...

Click on the "All" tab in her Properties Box. You will see a number of "Spouse family" entries, two of which should read "<no husband>" (See example screenshot below, but mine says "<no wife>"). Click on this and press Delete on your keyboard. This will remove the appropriate Family Record. Screensh...

Isn't the answer different if it's a templated source, rather than a generic source? You're right, it's a bit more complicated. You can have FH auto-generate the title, or you can manually enter it. Either way, clicking the "+" sign as advised above will drop down all the options, including the tem...

Do as Bill says, or alternatively, click the little "+" sign in the left-hand pane of your screenshot. This should drop-down your source fields, and you can single-click in the Title field and edit directly.

I have had a response from Calico Pie: We have now released a new update of Family Historian which should allow you to do what you wanted: >> A typical chart of mine looks similar to file SS1. The boxes are all the same width (12cm in this case) and the photos are all the same size (3cm). What I wou...

jclifford wrote: ↑

22 Nov 2022 10:05

I don't think I would take the CPanel route

OK, thanks for letting me know John. Let me know if you need any further help with TNG.

However, a TNG Date Mod to only adjust the eventdate display would be best. I had a look at the feasibility of this earlier this evening. I did manage to write some PHP code that almost did what was required, but I stumbled at the last hurdle. There are many places across the TNG code base that cal...

Mike, what I meant in (2) above is that a search could be done in the GEDCOM file, looking for (say) "BET JAN yyyy AND MAR" and changing it to "Q1 yyyy". TNG will import this with no problem. However, based on the tests above, this would only result in a "yyyy-00-00" sort field in TNG (as you correc...

A quick test gives the following. Sorry it's messy, I wasn't sure how to do tables! eventdate > eventdatetr > notes (Q1 1991) > 0000-00-00 > Date Phrase in FH - TNG does not see a date so will sort to top of lists (assume <1991> is the same) INT JAN 1991 (Q1 1991) > 0000-00-00 > Date Phrase with Int...

I will do a test this afternoon or early evening Mike and report back what I can.

Thinking about it, there are two other approaches that might be easier: 1. After importing to TNG as normal, run an SQL query on the necessary tables that updates any BETWEEN dates. This would need to be done from CPANEL > phpMyAdmin > SQL. 2. Do a regular expression search/replace on the GEDCOM fil...

TNG has a PHP function convert_date in which it takes the date from a GEDCOM and converts it into what is effectively a sort date. It stores this sort date along with the actual GEDCOM date in the SQL tables, and uses it to sort data as John has shown in his screenhots. For example, in the tng_event...

Thanks Mike. It would be helpful if he posted the Mod details here so others could use the solution in the future.

Further to my last post, if you use a date phrase of "Q1 1924", this is what will appear in TNG:


If you use the optional "...interpreted as" checkbox in FH, you'll see this in TNG:

If I only have a GRO Index reference, I only record the year and no further data in the date field. A lot of the times Q1 will mean the birth occurred in the previous year, so even this is not ideal, but it stops any confusion (especially in the non-genealogists you mention) around quarter dates mea...

Thank you both for your help. I will compose something to CP over the weekend and let you know how I get on. Sorry if this was a bit painful, but I'm more confident now that it doesn't "do what it says on the tin". I also understand this might be a rather niche request since nobody appears to have b...