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As well as the above options I create Male UNKNOWN and Female UNKNOWN (or the best info you have) parents, this then simplifies many situations.

Just noticed this http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20141124005291/en/Family-Historian-Genealogy-Software-Integrates-MyHeritage-Matching#.VHMdc4tv74Y which is to be expected with FHV6 imminent. I have had little experience of MyHeritage before but have a contact who shares their tree with me and...

In that case I might forward the link to Dick Eastman, surprised he hasn't spotted it already, or perhaps I missed his report.

Has there been an official (rather than the beta forum) date announcement for V6? If not I presume we are still tied to the confidentiality clause. I have not noticed any announcements on sites like Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter http://blog.eogn.com/ . If it should be public knowledge those ...

I would go with the "name at the time" to fit in with the "cultural/actual historical" and the lat/long for precision. I might also add a note for alternative current names, but how long will it be current!

NSK, I concur with mezentia, but as Ancestry trees have problems with "notes" (by their own admission) I also upload a simple gedcom file to their sister site Rootsweb, this seems to take any old gedcom and display it all, and fast. I also leave a note on Ancestry that there is a better copy on Root...

Linda, I too have come from TMG, fairly easy for me as I tried to use only "gedcom exportable" features in TMG. As there is now an official release date for FH6, it might be worth waiting for that to do your "final" import, especially as it will include witnesses and an updated TMG import routine, a...

I don't particularly want to resurect this topic but I found the following interesting: http://www.tamurajones.net/GEDCOM5.5.1IsntADraft.xhtml from this page http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/blog/?p=1424 . Effectively it is saying that although Gedcom 5.5.1 was never officially released, FamilySearch ...

Is it possible that all the standards have been deleted? Is it possible to "reinstall" the standard setup (aoso all of FH)?

Have you ticked "Show Hidden" (RH side)?

Apologies for not replying sooner but I have been in the USA for 3 weeks. What Mike says is fine. I think there have been other forum questions re this and I don't think it is possible to produce a report, just a query, however the results of a query can usually be exported to rtf, excel, pdf etc. A...

Assuming the FH trial database works OK on Vista, and it is just the direct import that does not work, in which case there could be some "quirky" difference between Vista/Win7, definitely do as Mike says. Have you tried a GEDCOM import? (Although the direct import is generally favoured). Are you sur...

This post gives a bit more info with a few things to be careful of:

running more than one instance of FH (11292)

for info: http://blog.eogn.com/2014/09/09/genealogy-software-review-macbridge-for-rootsmagic/ From his other reviews/ comments I suspect Dick Eastman is both a Rootsmagic and Mac user, but I don't think his article adds anything else to what has been said. I use neither, but I was tempted by Rootsma...

Well worked out Mike, and I hope there is a fix on the way, but if raywigz does not want to wait for a fix, my "test" might be all he needs, it depends how important a Standard TMG (FH Gedcom?) "Note" is to him. As I mentioned before, there seems to be something none standard re the TMG "note".

Whilst it is an open secret (promoted by Calico Pie) that, FH V6 will include witnesses, I have seen no further details. Calico Pie are well aware of the situation with TMG, hence I suspect the official rumour. You will note the later FH V5 updates have been updated to import Witness info from TMG, ...

I am not as expert re Gedcom as others, but as mentioned above my experience with TMG was that what you have for NOTE being a Gedcom NOTE is correct, it is just that I found when exporting to other programs/websites NOTE was very hit and miss as to how it was treated, whereas I found if I just used ...

Is this just on a "Note" tag, and do other EVENt tags with sources import OK? From my past experience, not just with TMG, although a Note tag seems like an EVENt, it behaves differently on Gedcom export (I don't know if you are doing direct or Gedcom import to FH), in consequence when I used TMG I d...

I remember the debate in TMG, separate projects or separate datasets within 1 project, the latter, as you are using, being the preferred method. However I found that it required a lot of maintenance for those individuals that appeared in multiple datasets (as I suspect you will if you use separate F...

Tatewise, In TMG how do I discover which Flags are associated with which Individuals? <> In TMG V7 - drop down menus > report > List of > events > all events, report destination/save to etc, csv output is easiest to view and sort, filter etc. > options > tab output columns then fill in the fields, e...

Ahah It's a new install on a new computer. Has it ever worked successfully on the new computer? Does it happen on the sample project? Have you tried creating a new project? Does it still work on the old computer? If nothing works, one must suspect the install or windows settings or file settings or ...

Not sure if these will fix your problem (they both seem related), but might give you some ideas. 1. "long length notes or memos are being chopped". This is an old problem importing Gedcom files from TMG to many programs/websites, especially if these are from ATTRibute like Tabs in TMG, don't know ab...

I doubt the virus checker would do it, otherwise most programs would have a problem. Does it happen every time, if it does another possibility is one of your files being read only or somehow restricted. Is it the same with another project, or a new one. If it does not happen every time it points to ...

I'm sure other people might have specific suggestions, but it sounds like another program is holding the dataset, the usual culprits are "real time" backups/syncs like dropbox.

Mike, I'm suspecting your

allow the EstimateDate functions to ignore "sort" dates, then a valid date range needs to be defined in FH

cannot be done at present. However, I did my test of using a copied Gedcom file, stripped of potentially offending date data, and this seemed to work much better.

Thanks Jane; yes I did consider the fact time scale and it works very well within FH, but I wanted even more control. Also I'm not sure how it would import to other programs, I suspect that as long as it is in the right position in the Gedcom file it might be OK, but some sites/progs put "no date" f...