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Thanks for all the pointers, Mike - told you I was still trying to learn. Anyway, I've spent a while experimenting, and now have something that seems to work for me. I'll run through it in case anyone else feels like doing something similar. I didn't actually try the All Pool Relatives Except Partne...

IMO it is in general not possible to differentiate paternal and maternal ancestors, and this is especially so if ancestral 'cousins' from both sides are married. Then via different routes, everyone is on both the paternal and maternal lines. That is why the All Pool Relatives Except Partner Ancesto...

I have an expression =IsAncestorOf(%INDI%,Field(FileRoot(),'INDI.~FATH>')) which produces a diagram icon for direct paternal ancestors (and a corresponding one for maternal). I think I knew before I asked that finding an expression for ALL paternal relations was a bit much! I think we need some mor...

Now I'm wondering, is there any way to distinguish paternal/maternal lines as well? Someone might have a more sophisticated answer, but that's what I do with the Custom ID - up to a point. It's included in the code I posted on 23 July, 17:31 (UK). All my direct ancestors from grandparents backwards...

Isn't this what's provided in Tools > How related... ?

I'm on a different tack from Bill, so apologies for seeming to butt in, but it does all stem from the original question. This thread has emboldened me to improve my Property Box caption to include a number of variables. In case anyone would like to copy or adapt it, this is the code for the whole of...

Thanks for the explanations - I can see what's going on better now.

Thanks - and hopefully someone else will be able to explain.

I'm not trying to be awkward, just wanting to understand, so when a term doesn't conform to what's described in Help I'm curious to know why it still works. Also why there are two versions - the simple one and the one with 4 parameters.

Jane wrote: ↑

22 Jul 2023 17:24

To uppercase the first character you can use:

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=Text(ToUpper(LeftText(Relationship(FileRoot(),,TEXT,1),1,"")) . MidText(Relationship(FileRoot(),,TEXT,1),2,0))

Thanks, Jane - I thought there might be a way, but it would have taken me a while to find it by myself.

The different parts are defined in the Help under the Relationship function. https://www.family-historian.co.uk/help/fh7/hh_start.htm#function_relationship.html Thanks, Bill. I see that the Relationship function requires 4 parameters, the first two being references to Individuals, but in the versio...

Go to Tools > Preferences and select Property Box and then Captions and add this to the first box: [=Relationship(FileRoot(),,TEXT,1)] Thanks - but please could you (or someone else) explain what the different parts are actually doing? In the program Help, under Functions > FileRoot, there's a simp...

What David has not said is that Treeview is s separate program supported by The Genealogist. True, but it's also the name they give to the online tree builder, though I assume there's some kind of inbuilt integration. There are some video tutorials which appear to relate to the online tree product,...

I don't claim to be an expert, but I did migrate from RM (v.6) to FH about 6 years ago. My feeling at that time was that I should get to grips with FH on its own terms first, before considering whether AS would be of benefit. And I still haven't used AS. Like you, I used 'lumped' sources in RM - min...

Latest update to 7.0.20 seems to have fixed this issue.

Does the thread Option to not create an image cache (21654) help?

It describes a setting you can make which inhibits the creation of the thumbcache.dat file - is that something you might have done?

Gary, yes, Google Maps needs a credit card. It looks like Bing Maps just needs a Microsoft Account and Bing Maps API Key to use a range of free services, but I got distracted before getting very far. I've never got round to any kind of mapping or geocoding in FH, and I don't know when I ever will, ...

In fact a GRO certificate may even be a tertiary source: I'd call a GRO certificate a derivative source (a copy of an original, or as you point out, possibly a copy of a copy of the original).... As you surmised, I was using tertiary in the sense of a copy of a copy of the original, but maybe, as A...

Should have picked up this when you said it -- why do you treat the GRO marriage index citation a separate source to the Parish Register entry when there isn't a separate marriage certificate created by a registrar for CoE marriages? Arguably, it is a separate source, as the GRO Certificate is not ...

Thanks, Mike - if/when I have any more to report I'll try to remember to post an update.

arthurk wrote: ↑

14 Mar 2023 19:47

Thanks - I've created a ticket and will update this thread in due course.

CP response:

Thank you for reporting that. I have logged the issue and it will be passed to the developers for investigation.

So presumably it's just wait and see....?

Thanks - I've created a ticket and will update this thread in due course.

Thanks, Mike - not just me then. However, because I dislike flabby code I removed most of the font tags, so mine looks like this: <b>Civil Parish of Leeds, Municipal Borough of Leeds: (address) (RG12/xxxx fo-- p--)</b> <table="1650|850|850|700|700|2000|1750|1000"> <row> <fs="-1"><b>Name | Rel. to He...

I've devised my own versions of autotext to use with text from source, especially with censuses. These have a default font of Tahoma size 9, but for most of the text, which includes a table, the font is set at size 8. In the table the top line column headers are bold, but I haven't used any text col...

Thanks for all the comments and advice - I've likewise deleted the ThumbsCache.dat and changed the setting to Load When Needed. In the event of any problems I expect I'll be back....

Mike - please could you clarify what you mean by "unused" and "redundant" thumbnails? Do they relate to images that have been removed from the project, or does the thumbnail cache keep refreshing itself but without deleting duplicates? As my cache is steadily growing, though not yet alarmingly big, ...