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Hi Peter, Mike is right, when you get your legal specs on and read the GEDCOM definition, these are minimums. But really that is beside the point. The person who entered the information into Ancestry was not thinking about GEDCOM specs when he put that information in. She was simply filling in a box...

Truncation after import of a GEDCOM from FTM - The problems I reported for v6.1 with OCCUpation and REPOsitory.ADDRess are not fixed in v6.1.1. Additionally I have discovered that it is happening with RELIgeon Again the CONC tags which were present (and equally a problem!) in import to v6.0 have bec...

A couple of truncations that have slipped through the net:- FTM 1 OCCU Henry was apprenticed to Thomas and Francis Braithwaite, hosiers of 2 CONC Nottingham, in 1817. He then went into partnership with his 2 CONC father-in-law, lace manufacturer. 2 DATE 1817 2 PLAC Nottingham FH v6.0 1 OCCU Henry wa...

Firstly a big thank you to everybody for their feedback. While I can't say my understanding of Methods is completely clear yet, it is certainly deeper now. I will return to it when my plugin has dealt with some further import problems I had not run into myself, and is v6.1 compatible. In the meantim...

Hi John Thanks very much for your feedback - I will be able to fix both these problems You and Shosh are getting the same error for different reasons. You have no Title. In v6.1 the error I was looking for is fixed and I can't find a title in the 'bad' place. Repository Name will be fixed too Please...

Hi Shosh Thanks for trying my plugin. This is a bit of a puzzle. What is going on at this point is sorting the Media Title - promoting the TITLe from level 2 to level 1. OBJE[1] means it is processing your first OBJEect I believe you are familiar with plugins. You are looking at the function fix_med...

Mike, My problem with dragging the boundaries is when you go to the All tab and double click on the image file to get it to display, the little black triangle in the yellow circle is not available. I agree the camera icon does help a bit. The method where the source images are stored against the ind...

Mike:- You are right, the images are visible in the All tab. I have also discovered that they can be edited, and added to in the All tab for new sources entered. I had got the impression during development of the plugin that you could not create such records in the API. I have tried a simple test an...

I have been writing a plugin to address the missing data, UDFs and other problems in data imported into Family Historian (FH) (v6) from Family Tree Maker (FTM) (2014). I have posted this in the plugin section. Like everyone else I have been struggling to know how and where to save Source and Citatio...

I have today posted a plugin I have developed to sort the problems with FTM imports. This is on the plugin forum. This post examines the problems which it addresses. Introduction There are two main routes to get data from Ancestry into Family Historian (v6) (FH) – either directly from a GEDCOM file ...

FTM_Fixer was conceived as a One Stop Shop to deal with import problems arising on importing Family Tree Maker (FTM) data to Family Historian (FH). It is only expected to run once, on a tree imported into FH from FTM, preferably immediately after importing. This avoids any problem with the order of ...

Thanks Mike. Just shows that you have to read the library reference with a magnifying glass!! I had spotted the comparisons of the record with itself, but assumed it wouldn't matter what was returned in that case - which is true for the bubble sort. But as you point out the manual does say return tr...

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Has run into the lua table library sort function not being completely reliable? I have been sorting a list of id / tag pairs, and I wanted the sort to be first by id and then by tag, with the wrinkle that Name would always come first. It works fine except for an occasional few cases where the name d...

Hi Brian I have tried your html It loads fine for me in Chrome In IE - it loads after saying yes to enabling ActiveX Controls but then just sits there saying "Loading..." for ever Perhaps it is your anti-virus that is kicking in. Try killing your network connection, turning off the anti-virus and ru...

In the course of writing a plugin to sort problems with imports from Family Tree Maker, I found I had a situation where several processes happened consecutively, and after incorporating Jane and Mike’s excellent progress bar 8-) , I wondered if I could make it work with an additional Overall Progres...

Thanks Mike.
Its for my own plugin to fix up an import from Family Tree Maker
I suppose if I use iup.Alarm in place of fhMessageBox it will be consistent

I am working on a system with two screens
fhMessageBox appears on the same screen as FH - or the plugin editor if debugging.
iup.GetParam always appears on Screen 1
Does anyone know of any way to control this behavior?

I found a problem with your example, Mike If CONC records not associated with a NOTE are encountered, it will append them too, I think. "Fortunately' I ran into one before the first NOTE so it died due to ptrNote being nil. So I changed it:- ... if strTag == "NOTE2" then ptrNote = ptrTag:Clone() -- ...

Thanks for prompt reply. In my simple way I thought if the file is wrong you open it up and fix it! It works - very impressive - but I think there is some serious learning curve ahead of me! I think I understand broadly how your code works - but could you explain why fhGetTag returns "NOTE2" for the...

I am writing a plugin that needs to read gedcom files directly. (Mentioned by Bundle in the thread "Problems with note fields truncating in FTM imports" I am trying to fix this problem. I am very new to Lua though I have written a lot of VB and C. I have no trouble reading the gedcoms from Ancestry ...