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I cannot think of an easy way to make the verb change from capitalised to lower case, not even by using functions. I've discovered just 5 people with some kind of civil honours or award out of nearly 2700 individuals in my database, so for me, in view of the complexity of the capitalisation, it wou...

I've devised an all-purpose fact - "Honours". Two caveats, though: (a) I rarely do narrative reports, so I don't have too much of a problem with getting the verb right; (b) I created it while using RootsMagic, and haven't had time yet to make sure it works properly in FH. (a) might be solved by incl...

The strict terminology is that someone is appointed MBE (OBE, etc)...

Arthur

tatewise wrote:To see such long text in FH you can put the cursor in the field and use the left/right arrow keys on keyboard to scroll it.

However, an edit [...] button would be more convenient.

Yes, I'd worked out about the scrolling, but I'd much prefer a button as you suggest.

I have experimented with short-text fields PAGE and ABBR with over 500 characters without any difficulty, and they are saved and re-opened in FH OK. The only slight risk is that some other products may enforce the GEDCOM lengths, but my experience is that they don't. I have some Death Causes that a...

FYI: There is fhugdownloads:contents:query_all_empty_facts|> Query:Fact ~ All Empty Facts that performs a similar blank fact search, but caters for absolutely every subsidiary field possible, and there are many more than Date, Place, Cause, and Note. It is easy to sort into Fact order and select al...

On importing my file from RootsMagic I found a large number of empty Death events. This appears to be because RM, in common with some other programs, uses these to distinguish between Living and Non-Living people. It's the same thing as was noted in relation to Legacy in this topic: 13780|Import fro...

Plenty to think about here, and experiment with. I expect I'll continue tweaking it every few days for the next couple of years or so... Why not put the Custom Id ( %INDI.REFN% ) instead of the Occupation on Main tab? (You must discard the standard Sex & Occupation as it cannot be edited, and create...

1. Caption Yes, =ExistsText( %INDI.REFN%, Text( " (" . %INDI.REFN% . ")" ) ) will do that conditional Custom Id in brackets. The ExistsText() function only actions its 2nd parameter if the 1st parameter exists. In this case the 2nd parameter is the Text() function that joins the opening bracket " (...

I'm trying to do a bit of customising to the Individual Property Box, and would be grateful for a bit of help, please - assuming what I would like is actually possible. 1. Caption Rather than the default RecordID, I'd like the CustomID to be appended to the name, so I've changed the Data Ref to %IND...

Thank you both: Regarding visibility of shared Note Record versus Source Citation I was thinking about your proposal to add [[See Note]] to the Address as a Note Record reminder. That is not necessary with a Source Citation as it appears in the yellow Sources For pane, that I almost always have disp...

Thanks for this - you've stimulated further thought, and I think I've worked out how this will work best for me. The Note needs to be attached to the relevant Fact(s), and can have its own Sources. If you are seriously planning to add a Source Citation to your shared Note Record , then why not bypas...

Thanks for the reply. I've now given this further thought, and done a bit of experimenting. First, the question of one house with two completely different names: The Getting the Most from FH6 book suggests that a linked Note Record is appropriate for information "about a house owned by many family m...

I'm currently trying to work methodically through an import from RootsMagic to FH and have come across the following issue. It's not specifically related to the import process, which is why I've posted in General Usage. It's also not such a widespread issue for me that I won't be able to deal with i...

You just confirmed my suspicions that with FH I would have to track each instance of a source citation to make a change to a typo. That is definitely not of interest. I'm still very inexperienced with Family Historian and haven't got as far as trying this kind of thing yet, but if it's a matter of ...

Perhaps when you have analysed the options, we could work together to update how_to:import_from_roots_magic|> Import from RootsMagic (RM) . I'd certainly be happy to help with this, family circumstances and crises permitting, and with a couple of caveats: 1. I'm using RM v.6, and it's now on v.7; I...

Sorry, I misunderstood. I suggest creating a small test Project, that exploits the RM features, to avoid a large repetitive Gedcom, so you can focus on what differs with different export settings. Yes, that would be the initial plan, though there's always a chance that the test doesn't include ever...

DavidNewton wrote:If you don't have access to Word then Winmerge Portable

http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/ ... e_portable

is a good alternative.

David

Thanks for that too.

Thanks for the replies: There was a discussion recently on RM migration to FH in 13254|Gedcom import errors with examples of RM-specific Gedcom structures. I found that interesting, but it didn't answer my current question. So any comparison of pre-imported Gedcom and post-imported Gedcom would find...

My planned migration from RootsMagic (v.6) to FH was delayed by a whole variety of things, but I'm now beginning to think about it again. As part of that I need to consider which of RM's GEDCOM output formats to use. The options allow you to either include or exclude RM-specific details, and how_to:...

Many thanks - I think the ideas here should meet my needs.

Not sure if this is what you want but sometimes I produce a chart for a particular purpose and needing some additions and explanations. I do this mainly by adding text boxes and arrows and such like. All these can be freely added without affecting the data of each individual. Anne Yes, on reflectio...

Many thanks for the reply and clarification. I don't think this issue is going to be a deal-breaker for me, but it's probably as well to know beforehand what would happen if I started editing data in a chart. To respond to a couple of points: But you are correct, simply ' tweaking ' text derived fro...

First a bit of background: I've been considering switching to FH for nearly a year, and experimented a bit with the free trial, but this has now expired. I later bought a boxed copy of the program, but urgent family circumstances intervened and it's still sitting unopened. So although I've been foll...

The first letter doesn't appear to have the horizontal line at the top which would make it a T, so I'd go for J (or possibly I). I agree with Richard that it's probably John, but I think it's been written Jhon. I'm sure I've seen that misspelling before, and probably more than once, but don't ask me...