Family Historian User Group

tatewise wrote:the SOUNDEX qualifier

Hey, Mike, more food for thought...

Searching online sources with that technique has given me very mixed success. And anyway there seems to be no way to incorporate SOUNDEX in query Row criteria or functions?

you can use the Alternate Name field(s) Thanks, Lorna, that's definitely an option. In my case, though, I already use extra Name instances to document "significant" changes that dramatically impact dictionary order - mostly deliberate adoption of different forms like "Alice Brown Smith" to "Alice B...

Name variants are a huge topic and cause all kinds of problems. There have been many postings about this (including some from me) and there are sure to be many more. As a rider to John's reply, the FH filter box operates as an initial match so typing in "Pickeri" finds Ann's variants just fine. In o...

I wonder if any other users have the same need, or perhaps a neat solution? Often, updating or entering a batch of new records, I find myself typing (or copying and pasting) repetitive elements of text such as registration district or parish names. In any one session, these are usually quite few in ...

Not so much a question (now I've found the built-in features to satisfy me), but... I was looking for ways to have two Records Windows open simultaneously (for example one sorted by birth date, the other by death date) and was poised to enter a new Wish List request. Then I looked more thoroughly in...