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Just reading the current issue of webuser (issue 392) where they highlight in the Whats New Online the site http://named.publicprofiler.org
Try it, an interesting bit of fun.

David

You need to make a Named List of the unused places: 1. Go to the Records Window, Places Tab and alt-click the Links column to sort the places by number of links with the unused at the top of the list. 2. Select the first and then shift-click the last of the places with 0 links to select all the unus...

You can create lists of the records which link to given places or addresses as follows. Places: go to the Records window Places tab and select the place, then go to the menu View>Record Links and that will give you a box containing all the links to that place. If you wish to process them further tha...

I picked up the following blog link https://familysearch.org/blog/en/undo-25-tech-mistakes-avoid/ from the RootsTech 2016 Conference Blog Compendium on this site http://www.geneamusings.com/ I thought some of the suggestions in it might spark a discussion. I should note that neither blog includes th...

True Lorna. Something is obviously not working correctly to deselect the Source/Citation, unless you close the pane, when you click on the Facts Show Media. So here's another scenario. I have individuals for whom I have a baptism register image which also contains a date of birth. My previous pract...

I think the filter issue may be explained in the same way as a}. The filter can look for the filtered name in alternate names as well as the record names but it still displays only the record containing the alternate name not the alternate name itself, unless you have a column showing alternate name...

I think what you are asking for is to mix in the alternate names into the first column of names in the Individuals tab of the Records Window. I don't think that is possible. You can however show them alongside the name of the individual as follows. You need to add an extra column to the Records Wind...

This is also on Genea Musings http://www.geneamusings.com/search/label/FindMyPast

David

If you don't have access to Word then Winmerge Portable

http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/ ... e_portable

is a good alternative.

David

I don't want to get into a discussion about the use of Ad-blockers, but I have AdBlock installed in Chrome and right-clicking the pop-up at the bottom brings up a contect menu with AdBlock as an item. Using that it is possible to block the pop-up and it seems to be sticking across FHUG. Before anyon...

I don't have a phone but on my full size screen if you hover the mouse over the lower end of the popup a pair of arrows appear and clicking them slides the pop-up off the screen and leaves behind a pair of arrows that can be clicked to show the popup again. David Added in edit. It seems that you hav...

If your query has a column containing the values of the Certainty Assessments then select all the values in that column, go to menu Edit and click Delete. A warning will pop up asking if you are quite sure and if you are then click OK. If you make an error you can go to the Edit menu and Undo the ac...

According to the information on this TNA page http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/1939-register/ the records were kept by the NHS for more than 50 years and name changes (and presumably deaths) are recorded. When I looked up my mother she was listed with her ma...

Mike I think the first exmple in the TMG_refugee post is very similar in that it is using a subset of the tags. In the few files I have in RM I don't think I have any source which is not Free-form. Following on the comment made by AdrianBruce the basic part of an RM source consists of the three item...

RootsMagic has numerous templates but when importing sources I believe that generally the template information is converted into a non-templated "Free-form" source. Creating a new "Free-form" source in RootsMagic offers the following fields: Master Source, Footnote, Short footnote, Bibliography on t...

Perhaps "published" is the wrong word. Nevertheless, the online document is freely available from FamilySearch

https://familysearch.org/developers/docs/gedcom/

David

But it seems many developers have worked from the faulty example rather than the formal specification, and have ignored the very obvious change described on Page 6 . I rest my case, m'lord. Amen to that. I currently have FH, FTM 2014, RootsMagic 7 and Legacy 8 installed (and if anybody is intereste...

I think the _TMPLT refers to a Source Template. Both RootsMagic and Legacy make use of Source Templates.

David

Jane's plugin

Add a General Record Office Source and optionally Event

would do the job for GRO BMD indexes.

David

Precisely, it is a Draft release prepared by the Family History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and yet contains an example of an apparently illegal use of a tag which is unchanged from version 5.5. We can speculate as to why that is - did they make the change in an ea...

I believe the problem, as with so many import problems, lies in the fact that the two GEDCOM standards are not the same and as with most file format changes software sticking to the older version will have problems reading the newer. The examples below are taken from the GEDCOM standard documents. T...

Just a thought. The piece of GEDECOM in the OP looks to me like a custom fact definition.

David

I see I was late saying that.

Hi Mike I have seen those constructs in forum posts but never pursued it. I am in fact still in the foothills of Lua string manipulation and I spend many a happy hour with the Lua reference open in one screen trying to construct string patterns to do what I want. A good but possibly inefficient meth...

Thanks Mike. I knew I was missing something, driving me nuts!!

I think that I will stick with calculating the gsub in advance rather than embedding it. Thanks again

David

This problem occurred in the middle of writing another plugin. The code below is a brief sample to demonstrate the problem pp=fhNewItemPtr() ppt=fhNewItemPtr() str='Happy Christmas' old='Happy' new='Merry' pp=fhCreateItem('NOTE') ppt=fhCreateItem('TEXT',pp) fhSetValueAsText(ppt,str) str=string.gsub(...