Family Historian User Group

Alternative name fields in the plugin store?

Actually, I see you've already mentioned this on the Plugins board, so thank you.

Thanks for the extra information, Mike. I am not sure where the Surname Case Convert plugin came from, or went to, but there is Clean up Surname Capitalisation . This is the one I have: ak-sccplugin.jpg But there's something a bit odd: when you download the Clean up Surname Capitalisation plugin, in...

Thank you, Craig and Jane. Since FH doesn't seem to be doing anything with or to these fields, I didn't expect there to be a problem, but I thought it as well to check.

I've been doing some tidying up recently and have discovered an issue with personal names - see the example in this screenshot: aknamesquery.jpg I originally had this person entered as Hellen Meaburn, since that was the version found in the baptism and burial registers and on her memorial. However, ...

All that is required is a set of custom dictionary tables, one per language, holding the translation of only each English word used by FH (not the entire English language), and an option to choose the required language. I haven't ever been involved in computer translation programming, but I don't t...

Purely on the basis of the handwriting I'd read that as Sheilding, but as I don't know the area I'd defer to those who do. If there isn't anyone here who knows the area, you might find it useful to look at the maps on the National Library of Scotland site - http://maps.nls.uk/index.html There's a wi...

Use {=TextIf(GetParagraph(%FACT.NOTE2%,4) = "", ," / More...")} as I suggested. Thank you, that works exactly as I had hoped, and I'm sorry to have messed you around and not got there sooner. Where you put "" I misunderstood that to mean I needed to put something between the "" , rather than copy t...

Thank you - that gives an interesting result: {=TextIf(GetParagraph(%FACT.NOTE2%,1), "resnote", "xx")} always seems to return xx . Changing the paragraph number doesn't make any difference, including when the number here is greater than the number of paragraphs. Unless anyone else wants to comment, ...

Thanks for pointing that out, Mike - but I'm still struggling to find an expression that will display a text string if the fact Notes contain a particular paragraph . I've been testing a few, as follows: {=GetParagraph(%FACT.NOTE2%,1)} works fine and returns the first paragraph of the Notes field. {...

Thank you - I think I'm almost there. Since the space available in the Facts listing is always going to be limited, I've decided to limit it to 3 paragraphs, so I've come up with the following: {label}: {=GetParagraph(%FACT.NOTE2%,1)}< / {=GetParagraph(%FACT.NOTE2%,2)}>< / {=GetParagraph(%FACT.NOTE2...

Thanks for all the help and ideas on this. My provisional solution is to have two custom attributes - Research and To Do . As I may have mentioned before, my To Do data is currently outside of FH, so it may be a while before I configure that exactly how I want it. My current concern is how to config...

Thank you, Mike, this helps a lot. To answer/comment on a few points: My general concern is that you seem to have several ways to record research related details :- The whole record Note for an Individual Specific research custom Facts Other Notes of one sort or another That's one of my concerns too...

I still don't understand how your Sources identify their derivation from your paper notes. How does a Notes Page act as a cross-reference if the Sources are not involved? Even a nil finding can be a Source with appropriate comments to identify what has been eliminated/excluded. It also begs the que...

Thank you for this - I'll add a few comments. Taking your last points first, you can call the Fact and the Tab whatever you like, but presumably would want them the same. You can Rename a tab, but you would be advised to create the Fact with the desired name. Obviously if I created 2 or 3 Facts, the...

I'm hoping for some ideas, please, on recording research that I've done, but probably also To-Dos. What I'm mostly wanting to record is references to my paper notes (eg "Notes page 23, 56" etc); at present I keep a list of To-Dos outside FH, but I can see the value of having them in the program, so ...

Thanks for confirming that.

Thanks, Mike. Presumably, then, if listing all the codicils under a single Will event, you could do the following: If there was only one codicil you'd use the meta-field Codicil: in the fact note, but if there was more than one you'd identify them separately as Codicil 1: Codicil 2: etc. Define the ...

Thank you for your thoughts on this. On balance, I think it's probably going to be simplest to stick with multiple Will facts, with suitable notes to explain that these are Codicils. And as Mike pointed out, having additional facts, rather than cramming everything into the original one, allows for d...

When someone writes a will, a Will event is used to record the fact. However, sometimes the person writes one or more Codicils so as to alter the provisions of the original will. Given that there isn't a pre-defined Codicil fact , I'm wondering how others handle this. Up to now I've used an extra Wi...

With the Quick Family Facts Plugin you can also copy the text from each pane and paste it into a word processor or text editor program, and if the program supports it, the Bold and colour formatting is retained. You have to repeat the process for each pane, but in some cases this kind of output may ...

I don't use Witnesses, but I've devised my own Registration attribute which I use for the person who reported the birth or death. The Value I use is a phrase such as: death of his father John Smith (1 May 1910) where the date in brackets is the date of the event. (Note the use of lower case "d" in d...

Yes from me too.

Looks good here. Thanks for all your work on this.

You are correct, the Text From Source: heading & content is a take it or leave it option. That is why some users prefer the Note field as it has no heading, plus it is a larger box in the Sources For: citation pane. Thanks for confirming this - it might influence my choice of what to do with these ...

I'm perfectly happy with using mostly Method 2 sources, and have no desire to undertake a large-scale change to Method 1 . At the present time, based on what I've looked at, and in part because I am dealing more with existing data than entering new stuff, I also don't believe AS has a great deal to ...