Family Historian User Group

Thanks a lot Nick, I think I might wait until the new release then.....

I'm just looking at Ancestral Sources to re-enter the Death Certificates I have into FH to give me consistency of Source record naming and titling the Media record attached to each source. I may be missing something and I know that the witness functionality in FH is very new but is there anyway that...

Thanks for the input on this one. Apart from my own use the major external use of my data will be to a Web Site on disc for family and relations. TMG had a companion product called Second Site that produced really good web sites. I haven't delved into FH web site functionality yet. I think my next s...

As part of my move from TMG to FH I have decided to review all of the data/Exhibits I have for direct line ancestors and I have to say I'm surprised how much "stuff" I have collected over the last 20+ years that hasn't been recorded, and I have only done myself, parents and started grandparents. Any...

@Mike, Thanks that worked. I did have a little trouble getting the correct Fact in the end, (I only wanted to change one of the 100's of notes I have). I used the date filter and it took a while to figure out what Date format was required. It might be worth making a small change to the "Help" showin...

I am cleaning up my data following on from a TMG import. I have a Custom Individual Event Fact called "Note" that I want to change to a Custom Individual Attribute called "News Article". I have written a query and can see the data in the Note Fact, its the second Note for the person so the data is i...

@Mike, I have checked TMG and as you say its a custom Tag with the GEDCOM of EVEN. Presume this is why the import created an undefined Cremation Fact type. I have used your Change Any Fact Tag Plugin to change the EVEN-CREMATION to CREMATION. Much quicker than re-typing. THANKS!!! The above Plugin h...

Thanks David, I can see why I'm creating multiple Fact Types now but the issue is the Imported Cremation Fact doesn't link to the Standard Fact. I deleted all the Cremation Fact Types apart from the Standard Fact Type. I then clicked show hidden and there was an undefined Cremation Fact Type. I trie...

I have some very unusual behavior that I think is a bug rather than me doing something wrong but I thought it would be worth checking here first. First thing to say is that the data has been imported from TMG. I have a "Cremation" event for a person and I wanted to change the role of one of the witn...

I can see that Witness events appear in Narrative reports but I would like to see Witness Events in the persons timeline in Summary Reports.

I looked at the data reference Assistant to add the details to the Main Section of an Individual Summary Report but couldn't see any reference to Witnesses.

Thanks Arthur/Mike, I have reported the text over print as a bug to Calico. Interestingly if you use the Individual Summary Report as the basis for a web site it does word wrap the dates.
Ian

I'm looking at the Individual Summary Report and theres a couple of things I can't sort. In the report options/Format/Format for dates if I use either Long or Compact with very long dates eg "btw 1 sep 1964 and 1 Aug 1968 (aged 11-15)" the text overprints the next column. The date column doesn't wor...

Thanks Bill/Mike, Clear as a bell now. I shouldn't try and look at these things when its time for bed.....

Thank Bill/Mike, I can see there is many more ways to skin a cat than I could possibly use but of the many options you have given I can only get a couple working or find the options you talk about. I'm probably being particularly dense. @Bill you say "select the item in the Media Records list and th...

This is the first of a couple of questions as I use the opportunity of importing from TMG to start to a clean up of my data in FH. When I display "all Media Linked to an Individual" I can see there are some photos/scans that are linked to facts that may more appropriately attached to say Places or S...

@Paul, Its a very long time since I used Version 4 of TMG and I don't recall exactly what extension the projects were but I'm fairly sure they were .pjc files. I have found the manual I had with version 5, (which is 2003.....) and the .sqz file is a backup file rather than the project file and .sqz ...

@Mike,

Thanks that worked!!!

@Mike, I will remind Calcio of the outstanding issues. I have checked where the Lat/Long gets placed in the FH GEDCOM and they all look like this:- 1 BURI 2 DATE AFT 11 APR 1917 2 PLAC Arras Memorial, Boulevard du General de Gaulle, Arras, France, 50.287386,2.760015 2 SOUR @S30@ 3 QUAY 3 2 OBJE @O13...

I have to say this is a major improvement and puts me in a place where I can "Go Live" with FH. I have made some checks this morning and it fixes my show stopper issues of:- some date problems, Notes "Events" not being imported, Memos within Events not coming across and the descriptions/Caption miss...

@Dick

Could you give a real example of the TMG citation detail you are talking about and where you expect the various elements to be posted in FH?

@Nick, Thanks for your answer, it explains what I'm seeing. I think everybody using family history software will record things in a different way, a lot of the time, based on what the software they are using is capable of doing. Within TMG I used the Witness functionality extensively precisely for t...

Hi, This is my first time using AS so I am probably doing something wrong. I am entering a Census event and there 3 people involved, a mother and her two children. I was expecting AS to create a Census fact for the Mother with 2 witnesses, the 2 children. Instead AS created a separate Fact for each ...

@Rich. Not sure why you are having a problem. Attached is a screen shot following a direct import from TMG. You can see that I have my witnesses with son/daughter for example. (you may have to scroll the screen shot up and down to see the witnesses) Screenshot (78).jpg Are you running 6.0.1? When yo...

@rich. I have used this V6.0.1 for a direct import from TMG and the witnesses are there. When you look at the list of Facts for a person do you see any facts with 3 blue dots joined by two lines in the "More" column? If so go to a person where you know an event in TMG has a witness. Note the person ...

@Jim, Thanks for the pointer about sort date, I'll have a look at that. I have used the TMG Utility many times. With regard to the Place issue I did mention to Calcio when I reported this issue that if the fields are to be imported as a comma separated string then then my personal preference would b...