Family Historian User Group

A quick update.
Completed the Diagram using Mike's code and sent it off to the distant cousin in the States, she was delighted!
Thanks for the help.

I have tried your suggestion first Mike and it brackets the name as required. However there is an unexpected consequence, all the other individuals have had a.k.a added to them! I have pasted my Name a.k.a Scheme Template below for you to check: =TextIf(RecordId() = 1302,Text("(" . %INDI.NAME:FULL% ...

Thanks one and all.
I will examine your suggestions tonight and see if I can make them work for me.

I presume that they are all display/print modifications and would not ripple down into a exported GED?

Thanks Mike.
The mother concerned is in a branch of the family I have never met, in the USA, and her email to me was quite brusque. I think she is going to insist on the bracketed version!
Producing a version of the Descendant Chart just for that part of the family would be OK though.

Some guidance please. I am adding children of two women relatives who were unmarried, who subsequently did marry and those children took on the surname of their mothers husband . I started by entering them with their mothers surname and then gave them an Alternative Name of their mothers husband. Wh...

Thanks all.
I will explore the reports available to see what could be a suitable selection.

Just just soooooo much to this software !

Thanks Mike, a helpful description of the procedure. It was the 'Named list' step I was searching for, this gives me a 'group' to use. I have only done the occasional report when passing info to other family members, they are a lot more powerful than I had realised. One simple question. Using the In...

Sorry if this a dumb question. I am considering using the Book facility in FH and it occurred to me that if the family I was already a 'group' it would make selection very easy. I dipped into making a book and selecting all the family members to be included would take a long time as well as easy to ...

Thanks Mike,
Yes I had selected Suggest candidates for matching
I will try the Don't match records after a little bit of manual investigation.

I want to merge the data my daughter has created about her husbands family (in FH) with my set. I have read the Merge and Compare notes and after backups have tried a preliminary Merge of her GED with mine. I aborted it without merging so as to get an answer to this question. Under the Individual ta...

Thanks Mike, works a treat!

Is there a semi-automatic way of finding media that have recently been added using Explorer into the Media folder, which are now to to be Added into FH?

Thanks

I have gone through all the media files and corrected some links including changing ones which were to my NAS and not the local hard drive. (the files are there but it is my duplicate copy of all my family history files). I ran the export again, with imbeded media, and it did not error. Will the exp...

Thanks for the reply Mike. I OK'd the selection popup and then the warning about a large file with imbeded media. Selected the folder and used the same named file as my first attempt. After a short pause the error came up. I have tried one other selection, same result. No media files were open with ...

I want to share some of my FH data with a relative who also runs FH. I have tried exporting to a GEDCOM by selecting a family member as a root and then used the add query to include all decendants. I also wanted to imbed all the media files and selected that. When I run this I get "An unknown error ...

OK, understand better now.
Thanks for your patience

Mike I think we are 'talking' at cross purposes!
Why does the plugin show references where there are no matches, line 3 for example?
Does it just report all subsets examined.
Or am I missing something?

Searching that subset yields no results? Peter

I based my Census search on this individual: And a snip from the plugin return where line 3 has a null return in FMP: Everything in line 3 is correct except for the hyperlink to FMY which returns no record.

Hope this gives you the information you need.

Peter

Mike, Excellent plug-in (v3.9) which quickly returned a lot of useful census data, thanks

Do you know why when using it some of the hyperlinks to FMP that show a 'record' acctually show nothing on FMP itself when clicked on?

Peter

You did indeed Mike but my FH was plugin free when I started this thread and I wanted to do it within the application. I have now completed the add and linking using the 2 windows method, tedious but successful. I still think that FH could make this easier. Perhaps if the process was for the user to...

Thanks again. Another 'feature' I knew nothing about!
At the moment I am opening the both the Media (All Media) window alongside to Add Pictures window and then selecting those that aren't listed in All Media. !!

Fristly thanks David and Mike for your input, I have learnt quite a bit from your comments. I had know idea about AS so I will definately investigate that! I also tend towards using IE for all file manipulation and often find this is at odds to the way applications are written, hence my current pred...

I have the media for FH held in a particular directories, images, certificates, documents etc. I recently processed a number of new images and then moved them into the images folder and I am now puzzling on how I can distinguish which images to 'Add' from the every long list of images I have in that...

Thanks for responding. Yes they are all over the place in the alpha list. Date sorting doesn't improve it! I started by having the Add window and the All Media windows both open and Ctrl selecting the missing items but for some reason the Add window now open maximised and so the All Media list is no...