Family Historian User Group

I don't use Ancestry, so can only advise how I use the RG101 reference found on FMP - I copy it (and other RG references) to the Publication Information field on the Source record in FH. By way of further explanation, I have "FMP" as the Repository on the Source record and use the PI field to hold t...

I'm with David on this one - I too frequently go to the Property Box of a child, etc., and would not want to see the Focus Window change. As he says, personal preference / way of working!

What Normal Time Frame setting do you have on the OBIT Fact - it should be Post-Death. FH uses these settings (amongst others) when sorting Facts

I can't speak for FH reports as I don't use them, but for GedSite (which I do use), I would have thought the creation / export of a Family "Partnership" Fact (much like a MARR age Fact) with the two Individuals on it would be handled by a "Partnership" tag in GedSite and you can then structure the s...

TMG Help for Export to Gedcom (Step 7: Option Screen 3) just states the following: " Places You can choose whether to export only the Short Place fields or you can check which of the place fields will be exported, whether a comma will be exported when a field is missing, and, if Commas when missing ...

Yes Mike, in TMG you can have a Sort Date and no Fact Date - it was the way to get facts sorted in the order you wanted even if there were missing Fact Dates

I'm sure Mike will come back with plenty of suggestions, but based on my experiences when I switched from TMG to FH, I would wholly agree with his comment. I have reworked the way I capture some data a number of time and it really can be a painful exercise!. Just simple things like naming convention...

There are places the Short Title can be used in preference to the Title, but personally I don't use it all!. My Source Title is normally pretty succinct (e.g. "Tapscott, Robert - 1941 UK Census" or "Tapscott, Robert - 1845 Death Certificate") and any related references (eg GRO Reference, etc) goes i...

Going back to William's last comment about Entry Date, I have to say I don't use the field at all!. With all information I find on the web (FMP / LDS/ ........), I print to PDF the transcript or whatever on the website (most have a "Print" option) and save that in the FH Media folder with a download...

I'm with a number of other people on this in that I don't use the Census record as a basis for Residence. I use AS to capture data and as such the Address / Place of the Census record is only recorded against the Census fact (set via the relevant AS option). Although I hardly use FH reports, Fact se...

As a matter of course I always "Print to PDF" every website transcript I use as a source, and store that in the Media folder. It's a bit of a pain and obviously results in a lot of PDF files but at least if, for some reason, I have to re-search for something I still have the PDF of the original and ...

You are correct Mike (Tait) in that a Stillbirth (as the Government website calls it) has to be registered.

Evelyn - there is an option in GedSite to use the source system (viz FH) sentences or to use the sentences you have created / modified in GedSite. From memory (as it is a while since I tried the options as I now have mine cemented in!) but I think the FH / Export Plugin also has an option to export ...

Evelyn - you say "A trial run creating a site from this Haigh Project with Gedsite shows that the Occupation Events output only date and place - presumably because the attribute field is empty." - have you checked your sentence structure in GedSite?. I had instances of this type of behaviour when I ...

If you successfully open your project in FH, there is a Plugin Ancestral Sources Data Entry (you might need to download it from the FH Store), that auto passes the project name / location over to AS.

Not sure if this helps, but.... I modified the Templates such that a Creation Date value can be added as I quickly realised I needed some form of gentle reminder of how long ago I created the Research Note. That said, I have also now started adding a Fact Date (when I remember!) as I wanted to ensur...

I also used Front Page (and still do you for one of my old private web sites) - it defaulted setup to "My Web Sites", so I think you are pretty much correct there Evelyn. If you do move to a new Windows 10 machine (as I did recently to replace one of my older machines), it will create a number of ba...

Thanks Mike. As the file has 230+ lines I have gone down the zip route!.

When I started the move over from TMG to FH, GedSite was not available so I expended quite a bit of effort trying to get data over to FH in a form that allowed me to generate a website using FH's built-in " Create a Website " Publish option (in conjunction with the related Plugin), that matched (par...

I also came from TMG to FH, and am a user of GedSite. From the start in TMG I did not use the Witness options for recording Census data so am working from a different angle than you!. Having said that, I also missed the options that TMG offered that enabled me to see (on the related website) details...

If you want a Calendar rather than a straight list, the website builder GedSite gives you that option. See my site at https://genealogy.tapscott.co.uk/up/Births.htm for an example - I have separate pages for each of Births, Marriages and Deaths, but these can be combined if you wanted.

Before I retired, I headed up the support group for one of the products of a very large financial services company. Every release was always supported by a complete report of all bugs that were fixed in the release - wherever possible (providing the clients details were not visible), the wording of ...

I believe it has something to do with the "Fast Startup" option (which is "on" by default in Windows 10). To achieve the faster start up, Windows 10 hibernates the kernal so that it can boot faster. A Restart does not do this and thus could be considered a more "complete" shutdown / start up!

Which field on AS do you paste it in to?. I always paste it in to the "Ref ID:" field in AS and, when the record is saved to FH, this populates the "Publication Information" field - as controlled by one of the Option Settings in AS.

Actually comes in on 16th February. Standard certified copies going up to £11 each and PDF version to £7. The Priority service goes up to £35 and they are also introducing charges for "failed" searches (viz. information provided does not match records) as well as re-introducing a charge for a search...