Family Historian User Group

Any change you make to a Fact Type sentence is automatically used for all existing and future facts of that type UNLESS you have chosen to override the sentence at an Individual / Family fact level.

Re, I think I may have too many balls in the air at once. and not directly answering your current questions as they have been dealt with above but just to say I spent well over four months "playing" with FH imports from TMG before I finally "went live". Often I would do multiple imports in a day, go...

As Bill mentioned, I'm sure Nick will respond on this if there is a better way. But for info, I modify the Census template columns where I want specific data to appear in an Individuals Census Fact Note - I use this method to have Relationship to Head of Household, Marital Status and Occupation adde...

Helen - if it's any help, I have a "Certificate of making Decree Nisi Absolute (Divorce)" from 1999. Feel free to message me if you want any info from it.

You might want to have a look within AS at the Tools / Census Templates where you can find the templates for every census / year combination - I found these invaluable, when I initially started using AS, to understand how the census data was formatted and the variables, etc., that were used in vario...

I also use a slightly modified version of the Clone Any Record plugin for virtually all non BBMDB & Census (for which I use AS). This way it ensures I get consistent wording in my sources for things like Probate, Ships Passenger Lists, etc. - items which I don't see "every day" and for which I want ...

Thanks Mike - done and now okay!

The Check Installed Plugins plugin identified that the Backup...Settings plugin had been updated, and subsequently downloaded / updated the one on my laptop. In running the new version (3.1) an error was immediately displayed: Screenshot 2021-05-14 181743.jpg For the record, I also tried manually do...

Yes, I would agree Bill - "Add to Dictionary" would be self explanatory and more in line with other applications I have used!

Using the "Ignore Spelling" option adds the word to the custom dictionary - per the Help: " Ignore Spelling This menu command appears if you click on a word that is flagged as misspelled. Taking this option will ensure that the spellchecker no longer treats this word as misspelled. You can view and ...

Perhaps I'm missing something here, but what AutoText do you select in AS, as the "Default" Rich Text template already gives you a table that is auto populated as you add individuals?.

Thanks for that - at least I wasn't missing a specific menu option!

I have a table in the Text from Source in a Census Source record that includes Links to Individuals in some cells. I now want to remove some of those links and, in essence, turn them back in to "ordinary" text but I cannot see a delete / remove link option. I can see options to add and to edit links...

Ah, didn't tie those together!

Just for the record, I also ran the latest Windows Update on my laptop (that I run FH on) when it was released and have had no problems using FH 7.0.3 or AS.

Derek - to add to your "encouraged" state, I moved from TMG shortly after support for the product finished. I spent nearly three months continuously running imports within FH and then going back to TMG to adjust items, often after advices found here on the FHUG, until I got to the stage the data in ...

Have you tried using the Map Life Facts plugin?. I find it a more reliable option than the mapping built in to FH, although its reliability will obviously depend on the structure and location of your Places.

What Map Type do you have set in the FH Preferences?

Interestingly when I chose the "Report an Error" option, the resulting screen showed "Birth Place" as China and, on the next row, "Birth Place other as transcribed" equal to Hong Kong!. I will now contact their customer services people to try and establish what this is supposed to mean, although I s...

It is the transcript of a 1901 Census, with the attached image (the one listing a group of houses and the individuals in them) clearly showing Hong Kong as the place of birth.

Over the last few weeks I have found a number of people in my tree who were born in Hong Kong circa 1890 (per Civil Service birth records, etc). After they returned to the UK I have found Census records for them, but the transcript of these on FMP shows Place of Birth as China, although the underlyi...

Agreed Helen. Personally, I still prefer the Research Planner plugin as that gave me facts that appeared on the Facts tab for an Individual, which is what I use most. I don't find the new FH7 Research functionality "works" for me, and, indeed I have reverted to the pre Research Planner processing by...

I've been using GS 4 for a few days now - still early days but am finding that things like usage of Rich Text in AS is coming through to FH and on to GS via the Export plugin very well. I should perhaps add that I am still using generic Sources, etc., so am not using Source Templates.

When you have selected Census you just select AutoText as you would for Births, etc. It will be populated with the content of the Census grid once you have input data, plus other values if you have made changes to the AutoText template - by way of example, I have modified the default AutoText for th...

I think you may be confusing two different things. The AutoText templates appear, if selected, towards the bottom in the text section. The Census templates are used to define what columns should in the main entry part of the window for Census entries - these will normally be different for each Count...