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LornaCraig wrote: ↑

20 Dec 2020 13:18

I suggest you start a new topic in the Ancestral Sources forum about this. Nick will be able to tell you what is, or is not, possible to achieve with a customised template.

Great idea. I will finish the record I am doing so I know what tweaks I need. I probably should go to work first though!

Have you had a look at ORA, Online Repository Assistant (https://www.ora-extension.com/en/contents.htm) ? I have been using if for over 6 months now on v6 and now v7 and has saved me hours of transcribing records off genealogy websites. Not free but at $24 pa well worth it in my opinion. Effectivel...

Thanks everyone. I have used AS for all my British records and think it is amazing. I've managed to get halfway through creating a birth register template which looks great Only downside I can see so far is the language and format side of things. So for example it starts off with "L'an mil huit cent...

Great I will try AS. I tried using the autotext in FH and it kind of worked okay, but there was a lot of text to go through and replace, AS, but automate it a little. Fingers crossed

Take a look at Autohotkey . It takes an input file, which contains simple text instructions for autohotkey, telling it what text to enter when a hotkey is pressed. e.g. Among my many instructions, I have programmed it to type 2/4/1911 whenever I press <Ctrl> 1 , which saves me entering the 1911 cen...

Morning everyone Hope you are all well. I am now trying to focus on my French side of my family (loving how all the records are online. not loving how there are no searchable index, but such is life!) Most of the civil and parish records have the same text with a few tweaks and as much as I'm loving...

Thanks Mike. Yes that's the query. I had a feeling I hadn't created it myself! I did modify it to sort by surname. I used the missing census plugin which was good but gave me way to much info, but adding that extra line to remove those with the census has made a huge difference. Thanks both of you f...

Thanks so much for that. That worked. The English bit for now will stay as my mum is french so half (or maybe not half) are all based in France so it would take ages to filter them. I reckon once I have done this list, I can maybe remove that qualifier to catch any others. Or maybe exclude all Mum's...

Hello I have recently got access to the 1939 register so have been ploughing through it. I have a query (can't remember if it came with FH or if I downloaded it) which gives me a list of a possible people for the register to check. Is there anyway to exclude those that I have found the record? In a ...

Thanks Mike

it would seem if I remove ".new" from the url it works.

I thought I would run the Missing Census Plugin and I can't seem to get the FMP link to work. The Ancestry links work fine and searching FMP from within FH works fine. Any ideas?

Mel

Thanjs Mike. I will give these a read. One day I would like to write a plugin but in the meantime I will be happy with my custom chart

Thanks Derek. I had looked at thr knowledge base a while ago when I was very sleep deprived and couldn't make it out. This help file makes more sense.

How does PrevSib and NextSib work? Just wondering how it would be affected by the person I select. So if I choose the eldest as my root person, or the third out of five, how would this show? It probably makes sense to list all the siblings in chronological order.

It's been so long since I did any programming I've forgotten the terminology. When I said proper I meant things like call functions and non-proper I meant expressions. I googled Lua If statements and so tried using "if...then...else...end if" which is the same as I was used to and that didn't work. ...

Great I will stick with your suggestions. Is there a list of functions that can be used in this context? I could only find information for writing 'proper' functions. (I hope that makes sense).

Thank you so much. I will have a play later. I found another thread about ungrouping charts, does that mean that I can just add this code to one section ie the centre? If so I wouldn't need the part checking for the root person.

Hi I decided to have a crack and writing a bit of very minor code in a fan chart. I have a full fan chart but in the centre I have the root person plus all siblings. Basically I wanted to do one for my two kids. After a lot of tweaking I finally have it in a way that will work even if the second chi...

After you choose the diagram root and the diagram is displayed, right ckick and you can choose diagram root. I changed it to my Grandma and the diagram stayed the same.

Right I have tried both quickly and they look great, my question now is how do you refresh the information? For the reports there is the rebuild report option. I changed the diagram root and I can't get it to refresh. Do you need to run it completely again?

Mel

Wow quick responses as ever, thought uou would all be in bed!
Off to the shops so I will have a go when I get back.

Hi I am doing a short course and need to prepare a pedigree chart similar to the attached. I am going round in circles. I was going to use the Outline report, though I can't seem to get the different events on a separate line rather than in one paragraph. I was then looking at the diagrams but tryin...

Well I now have two trees with the same name. I am loving the internet search part of FH so once I fix my ancestry tree it should be sorted. I suppose I do another merge/compare it will highlight which ones to amend. Or I will just go down the list of people.

Hi thanks for thr links. I had already seen them but theu hadn't answered my question. I have decided tovdo a test on a smaller version of my tree that is still on ancestry. Looks like when you upload tjough it creates a brand new tree. I tried to create one with the same name to see if that would w...