Family Historian User Group

I couldn't resist one last pass of tinkering. I downloaded an evaluation copy of RootsMagic, read the gramps GEDCOM (same as FH read), and looked at the record I was discussing. It looked identical to Gramps. I then exported a GEDCOM from RootMagic, and read it into FH. MILT, @N0232@ and @S0117@, CO...

I have no idea where "possessions" came from. When I open the GEDCOM in notepad and search for "possessions", the word is not found, so how FH came up with it, I'll leave to your expert judgment. It appears that the only way to get rid of wayward records is to delete them and re-enter, which is more...

What was the date of the first census? Wouldn't it be friendlier to use something more universal? I am sorry you had difficultly with the question. They are used as I felt most people would find them easier than the re-Capture type boxes, they also need to hard enough to prevent a quick google prov...

1. for some reason, FH has extracted a word from a note- "possessions"- and turned it into what Gramps would call an event. I suspect what Gramps calls a Note "possessions" is what GEDCOM and FH call a Possessions Attribute that is listed in the Property Box on the Facts tab. You correctly say it i...

I am using an evaluation copy, version 5.0.7. I hope to migrate my data from Gramps, as I have grown weary of Gramps wacky ways on Windows. And it mostly works, but FH seems to read some records oddly, and has created things that I cannot find any way to correct other than to delete the entire recor...