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I would reinforce what Nick has said, in that the transcript screens on FMP are not to be trusted and I would seriously think about whether to use them in your FH research. Occupations are notoriously inaccurate, but address and especially house names are often guesswork. Less common, but still not ...

Thanks for your ongoing support Mike, much appreciated.

Click that little calendar icon at the bottom of the facts tab and all the entries highlighted in green (Timeline facts) will be hidden. Click it again to show them. If you want to show some of the Timeline facts but want greater control about what is shown, click the little cog button next to the c...

Ah, thanks Mike, clearing those boxes did the trick. As far as I can see the Use Note as Caption isn't ticked on any of my media, and, having checked, specifically not on this one. There is text in my note box, as per the screenshot in my last post. I'm not sure where else I would put the narrative ...

The Export went well and the Change Dates exported as expected, and TNG imports them successfully. I think I used to do it this way some time ago, and I can't remember why I switched or if I was just experimenting and forgot to switch it back. I do now have a side-effect I wish to get rid of. The No...

Thanks for the quick reply Mike. You've confirmed most of what I was thinking but I wanted to know if I was on track or not. I could see the effect of the difference between LMOs and Media Records but wasn't sure if there was a reason for one over the other. I am clear in how TNG works with the date...

This is probably a question for Mike Tate. I'm using your Export GEDCOM File plugin to generate a file for TNG, as you might remember. I have noticed that the media files do not have any change tags associated with them (CHAN / DATE / TIME), unless I am missing something. I believe I have the standa...

If I remember correctly, there was a bit of a Data Protection fuss around about 2005, and the GRO stopped providing the Index data. Nothing was ever sorted out legally if I recall, the lawyers involved just thought that the GRO might get in trouble so they stopped out of caution (it's a while ago so...

Have you thought about contacting Ancestry to see if they can help? I know it's a slim chance, but they might be able to confirm if the data is now behind a paywall, or covered in a different set.

Yes, it's a bit confusing. I would have bet the kitchen sink on that's how I set up two custom facts some time ago, but clearly not! I can't really think of a use for the Copy function as it currently exists. Hopefully I haven't muddied the waters too much and Mike's clear explanation will help. I'm...

I've found a workaround by using the Reference ID / Publication Info field, and then going into the source in FH and swapping it from PI to Author. This works because I only use both fields in about 50% of sources. However, it would be much easier to have the Author field in AS if possible, as I som...

tatewise wrote: ↑

20 Feb 2023 10:53

Unfortunately, Adrian is mistaken, copying the standard Burial Event will always produce a Burial Event.

Oops, sorry for the misleading information

You've pretty much described the process yourself :D Click Tools on the main menu, then Fact Types to get the Fact Type window. Select "All" or "Standard" in the fact type selection box, click "Burial" in the list and then the "Copy ..." button on the right. Select "to Extended Set", if that's where...

Hi Nick, There was a discussion some time ago (which, as normal, went a bit off track quite quickly!) about the Author field used in Generic Sources. The discussion was here: 14034|Recording Source Author, Type & Publication Information in AS . In your reply in the discussion you said that Ancestral...

Bill, my advice is don't bother with the Source Templates. Others will have different views, but my opinion is it is too steep a learning curve, too much effort to convert previous entries and too much added complication with very little return on the effort. My advice to someone starting off would ...

Has it been ten years! That is a surprise. You're right that it's kept its own brand identity and they play on the community spirit thing. In my experience it's been the last year or so that a lot of extraneous information seems to have flooded in, but maybe I've just been searching more. As Nick sa...

I have noticed a marked increase of entries on Find A Grave which are clearly mass uploads from other sources, rather than the mainly user-generated content it used to have. Quite honestly, I'm not interested in unsubstantiated material without a photo, and in my opinion it has reduced the usefulnes...

You've probably already checked, but in the Media Record, does the Format field match the actual file format? When I did a major media tidy-up last year I noticed that a number of my TIFF files were recorded as JPEG in the Media Record (and I don't know how that happened). This didn't cause me any i...

kevync1985 wrote: ↑

30 Jan 2023 23:35

What is CP?

Calico Pie, the software company that publishes Family Historian.

Just to add a little to the answers above about the person frame link. As Mike says, it is a feature that few other products support. However, it is worth noting that the co-ordinates for the frame are stored in a custom tag in the GEDCOM file, something like this: 1 OBJE @O2998@ 2 _AREA {837,1427,2...

Hi Jeff, I think you still need to give us a bit more detail please, so we can help. Once your tree is off Ancestry, and on TNG, how will you maintain it? Will you do that directly on TNG, or will you carry on updating it in Ancestry and want to export it regularly to TNG? Or maybe you want to get y...

It might be worth taking a step back and reviewing exactly what it is you are trying to achieve. From your post above, and from what you have posted on the TNG forums, it appears to are exporting from Ancestry into Roots Magic, then exporting from that into Family Historian, and then exporting from ...

You're going to have a bit of a loop where TNG users point you to FHUG and vice versa! :D Considering you are trying to configure TNG to work with FH7, and this sub-forum is specifically about importing and exporting, I don't think the mods will mind too much carrying on the conversation here, altho...

Like This? Yes, thanks, that's what I was looking for, but it didn't give me an answer, sorry. Harold has given some very good advice above and I would recommend stepping through that. However, slightly contrary to what Harold says, I do not believe this will remove any media already linked in your...

For those two images, could you please post the contents of the ALL tab for the Media Records?