Family Historian User Group

In reply to Carl's point nbr 1 - about the person view showing all facts - The fact's tab shows most of the information - however one needs to click on the Notes tab to find notes about the fact - and that is where important information is displayed. It would be much easier to have all the info abou...

Thanks for all the replys! I have been trying out various things - adding soundex to the records view, adding the name as a note, etc. The discussion brought up ideas for all my other kinds of names - alternate spelling, nicknames, married names, name-changes. Names are definitely a challenge. Thank...

Thanks for the replies. The index I am talking about in FH is the records window. I use an online system, Second Site, which when I transition to FH I will be using GedSite - a website builder from John Cardinal. That system has an index of everyone on the site. I don't think in FH you can search by...

In TMG I have a name tag that is a standardized name. For example - Sargent can be spelled many ways, including Serjeant. For Peter Serjeant I have another name tag called custom-name, which is Peter Sargent. I have the name tag set not to print, but it is used in indexes, including an online system...

I would like to change the status of some facts - change the status to disabled. I don't see how to do this. These are facts that I do not intend to use, that I will never use. Most are in the standard set and cannot be deleted.

Thanks for the help -

Linda Reinfeld

Hi Mike - My data is not ready at all yet for FH. And a big part of my system is a website. I will be using GedSite, and that is not ready also. I intend to get FH & GedSite in tip top shape, and migrate once a week to capture the latest data. I don't know how long I will do that - probably until ei...

Thanks Mike for the suggestion on how to fix '--'.
However I will have to do the fix in TMG as I am constantly transferring my data.

Linda

Neil - like you, I went to the Property box cog wheel to see where I had customized the name (I couldn't remember). It does seem like the natural thing to do..... Mike - Didn't know the correct words, thanks - Focus Window. Why can't the name on the focus window be modified? There are lots of exampl...

My property box name looks good - it's the way I want it.
The name in the family box is not OK. How do I fix that? Actually I don't need the ID number, just Mr before the name.
Thank you for the help.
Linda Reinfeld

Mike - Coming from TMG I have not understood attributes very well. I tried to export my data using attributes as much as possible, but the Occupation data did not fit well so I made it into an event. I never imagined that it would be OK to have the same name fact be either an attribute or an event. ...

Mike - I am having a problem with a fact/attribute in the Gedcom you create from the plugin Export Gedcom File v 4.6 In FH I have a fact called Occupation. It is a fact, a custom fact, and the status is checked. There is also something else called Occupation. However, this is an attribute. It is in ...

Mike -

Thanks, it worked. But not until I fiddled with the report options, which you had mentioned. I guess the checkbox 'include event attr/notes' means those notes that are not identified in the sentence templates.

Thank you - this solves lots of problems.

Linda

My sentence as shown in the property box is different from the sentence shown in a report. My sentence template: {%CUR_PRIN.NAME:FIRST%} <and {=FieldText(Witness(%FACT%,"Principal 2"),'INDI.NAME:FIRST')}> had {note} children The sentence from the property box: William and Mercy had no children. The ...

Mike - Looks great. The exception report is something I can deal with on an individual basis. You said - keep the plugin. When I downloaded & ran it it ended up in the folder: I have Win10 windows/Program Data/Calico Pie/Family Historian/Plugins. Is that the correct place to 'keep' it? Can I transfe...

Mike - I have 220 to fix. For the plug-in to detect 'as an infant' in the note field and then set the death age to Infant & then delete the note - Wow, perfect. I would do it myself, except that there is no way to export 'as an infant' to the death age field which means I would have to post-process,...

Hi Mike - It works great. I didn't realize I had so many 'non-conforming' deaths. And then I realized they were all from my TMG event DeathInfant. I changed those to death in TMG and put 'as an infant' in the memo field in TMG. I will go through my data and figure that out. But in the future, when I...

Hi Mike - I just checked my data - I am missing 7 death dates - Bad Data, I will fix those records. And a few have no day. I will also fix those. All other records have a full date. It will be either a birth or baptism. I did a small sample - 30 out of 295, none had a qualifier. If they do, just ide...

Yes, Mike, that sounds good.

Thank you -

Linda

Mike - Thanks for the code. It is excellent for 2 of my 3 death dates problems! It gives the date in years for everyone, and if I enter the age as Infant (using age entry assistant) it doesn't say 'age 0'. Excellent. The problem seems still to be with DeathBaby. If you run the plugin I understand th...

Mike - My Death fact is: {individual} died {date} {place} <{note}> <at age {%FACT.DATE:AGE_AT%}> which produces the sentence: He died on 24 March 1885 in Crawford County,Pennsylvania at age 72. The sentence is what I am interested in - for reports and an online system. If you write the plugin to cre...

Mike - TMG does not have an 'age' field in the death tag (or in any other tag). It's much easier for the computer to calculate the age. Therefore I changed the FH standard death tag to calculate the age, which shows up in years - I am happy with that. Under 1 year old the age is 0. I am not happy wi...

I have 394 DeathBaby facts. Too many to manually calculate the age at death.

However, you gave me an idea. I also have DeathInfant tag, when I have no idea how old the child was. I shall give them a regular death tag and add 'as an infant' in the notes.

Thanks, Linda

I am using TMG9 & FH 7.0.8 I have a normal death tag that imports to FH with an age in years - it is fine. In TMG I have a death tag called DeathBaby, which calculates age in months and days. I use it for those who died before 1 year. I realize FH doesn't have a fact of DeathBaby, but when I change ...

Thanks Mike. I have reported it to Calico Pie.

Linda

Using v7. Printing an Individual Narrative Report. I have radio button ticked under Options/Sources tab When I view the report in FH the Sources start on a new page. I save the report to a .rtf file. When I look at the .rtf report, the sources print on the same page as the beginning of the report. H...