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Thanks for your quick response, Mike. I'm grateful for your very straightforward explanation of the various ways of treating Sources and attached files. Treating each document as a Source is probably the best option, but with almost 3000 individuals and many hundreds of documents it's probably too l...

In the thread 11041|Multimedi Captions tatewise said: Document Sources The Multimedia tab of the Individual Property Box is meant for pictures of Individuals . Source document images for events such as Birth , Baptism , Marriage or Death should be attached to the Multimedia tab of a Source Property ...

Many thanks, Mike. I hadn't realised that the report files with a FHR format were just text files. I've followed your guidance and it provides a much quicker, and very simple, way of achieving the changes. So, another problem solved, and something new learned about FH - where would we be without thi...

Just been trying to find where I can set a new default font for Reports, but have failed. I know I can wade through every line of every font listing in the Report options for each report type (and presumably save as a custom report to preserve the changes) but I felt sure there had to be a default f...

Jane,

I saved a renamed copy of the Plugin and made the alterations you suggested. It has worked perfectly, including the handful of McNames in my records.
I appreciate your responding so quickly, and providing me with such a simple but effective solution.
Many thanks for your help.

Stuart

I have used the Plugin to convert surnames in all capitals to mixed case. However, I have many surnames that were originally entered in all lower case - they display OK in upper case when required, which is fine - but I would like to convert these also to the preferred mixed case format. The 'conver...

Thanks Andrew, that looks like a very useful link. Sadly there are a few instances from my earliest researches when I failed to record the Batch No., and even though I am certain the information came from the IGI (because I couldn't have found it anywhere else at that time) it has proved impossible ...

Thanks for that suggestion. That has worked OK for me too.  Obviously the tick box in the options dialog box doesn't work, but at least I now know to use the menu item for saving default settings.  Very grateful for your help.

Is anyone else having problems with the 'new' IGI site. Having been unable to find some baptism events, I decided to check several that I had found (on the IGI) a year or two back. None of these could be found on the new site, even when I entered the Batch No. from my original find. The old site may...

The expressions were entered in one of my Saved Charts, which had been created by clicking on the All Relatives icon. All of my charts started by my clicking on one of the four standard diagram icons (almost always the All Relatives one). Does this mean that any changes made to saved charts do not g...

Having entered a number of conditions as expressions in the Boxes tab of the Diagram dialog I want to save these as part of the default diagram settings. I've checked the relevant box for this, but they don't appear to be saved. I can understand that they may not be applied retrospectively to pre-ex...

Many thanks to you all. Whilst you may be offering conflicting advice, the reasoning behind your differing approaches is very useful in helping me to determine which approach I should take.  I wasn't aware that the GEDCOM standard actually stated how fields should be used, but obviously it wouldn't ...

William Clegg's booklet on recording BMDs in FH advises that you use the citation Entry Date field for 'today's date', i.e. recording when you actually entered the citation into FH. Elsewhere (possibly somewhere on one of these forums, but I can't find it now!) I recall reading that, when recording ...

Many thanks for your super-fast response. Your reply was much more than the 'nudge in the right direction' I was expecting, and I had no trouble in following your detailed step-by-step guidance. It's good to have learnt a little bit more about this excellent package. Again many thanks for your help....

I have been using Family Historian for several years, and I've managed to learn most things that I need to do either by trial and error or from visiting the forums and knowledge base.  But I can't find anything to show how I can get Addresses (as well as Places) to display in Diagram Text Schemes.  ...