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Thanks, Mike.

Yes, I was trying to keep my answer concise, but the principle is the same: add a tag if there isn't one, and make sure that any tag on these events can't be mistaken for anything else.

After reading all the comments, I'm still leaning towards putting my census data in tables; I accept that these don't work well in printed reports, but as I don't use these much I think I can live with that. These are going to be mainly for my own on-screen benefit, and in view of what Nick says abo...

This issue with Gedcom tags in Generations sounds very similar to my experience when moving from Generations to Legacy. I wrote about it earlier in this thread (29 Apr 2021) - this is part of my post: I can't now remember all the details now, but I've a feeling that with user-defined fact types Gene...

The question for me is “why do you want formatted tables?” IMO, there are too many columns in census returns to display neatly in a typical A4 portrait report. I record census text as a simple column -separated literal transcription of what’s in the return, apart from a standard abbreviation of the...

.... (a) Yes, AS can be used to replace/supplement existing Source Citations without replacing existing Facts, but it does not edit existing Source Citations..... (b) No, AS is even less capable than FH and only one cell at a time can be pasted...... In view of that, then, I don't think I shall be ...

If you intend to use Ancestral Sources then you may wish to make your Text from Source format to match its format. Otherwise, you could end up with two different styles of Source record format. The same argument applies to other types of Source and not just Census records. Thanks, Mike - though in ...

I've finally upgraded to v.7, and one of the reasons for this was the possibility it held out of adding tabulated data to Text from Source fields. With the Lumped Source Splitter plugin (thanks, Mark) I've converted my lumped census sources into separate ones for each household, and am now looking a...

All done now - many thanks to Mike for the advice and plug-in, and John for remembering about it. I successfully edited the GRO version to create one for FreeBMD, and after testing on a copy have applied both to my main project file. I'm still undecided about re-ordering the various bits of the cita...

Thanks - as I don't write plug-ins that's somewhere I've never ventured.

Thank you, Mike, I've now tried the plug-in on a copy of my project, and it works perfectly, changing the single GRO Index to three separate ones for B, M and D. However.... The specific Source titles required can be edited on lines 17 to 24 and include Baptism, Christening, Burial & Cremation. i.e....

Interesting, John. Is this the thread it arose from: https://www.fhug.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=6803 It looks to me as though you and the OP there were looking for more or less the same as I'm asking about here, though the thread then changed tack and unless I missed it, there didn't seem to...

Thanks, Mike, that's very helpful - particularly the explanation of what the expressions actually mean. I haven't fully decided how to proceed; my last post indicated a bit of hesitation, but I am now thinking it would after all be preferable to split the GRO Index source into three separate ones. H...

Thanks - it's only relatively recently that I've started using Q1, Q2 etc in the fact dates, and my use of 'Mar qtr' etc in the citations goes back a lot further than that - in fact long before I started using Family Historian. And since my source has been 'GRO Index' I don't feel the need to repeat...

Up till now I've been using a single source for each of the GRO Index and FreeBMD, with no differentiation between Births, Deaths and Marriages. I'd now like to separate them out into GRO Birth Index, GRO Marriage Index etc etc. I thought I remembered seeing something about this here in the past cou...

It looks like Ebenezer:

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I can't remember if I've occasionally had duplicate copies in the past, but I definitely did yesterday.

Like Helen, I no longer have them to check the full headers, but I've confirmed from the email server logs at my end that two copies went through at 8:09:08 and 8:14:08.

As I'm still on v.6 I can't try out this plugin, but I did occasionally use the built-in function when I was using RootsMagic. I seem to remember that you invoked it not by selecting an individual and then picking from a list of facts, but by first highlighting the fact in the equivalent of the prop...

2. Over time I want to work my way through each ancestor deleting and merging some citations. It would be helpful if the citations were in alphabetical order... I have long wanted a method of sorting source citations. Haven't found a way. How would any automated method know which order to put them ...

Bill - if you're trying to upload to WorldConnect I don't think I can help you. If on the other hand you're trying to upload to Freepages then my comments about FTP settings are probably relevant. I don't think I ever looked at WSFTP, but I do remember that one or two FTP programs didn't seem to wor...

Bill - I've never used WorldConnect, but if that's what you're asking about, then as well as what Mike has written you might need this page at Rootsweb - https://support.rootsweb.com/s/article/Uploading-web-account-pages-1460087062444 However, I've no idea whether it's still current or whether, like...

Rootsweb have some instructions at https://support.rootsweb.com/s/article/FAQ-freephelpftp but I'm pretty sure these are out of date. A few years back, after Rootsweb had been offline for a while they put out some new information in a blog; I bookmarked it but the page and/or whole blog now seems to...

Do all Generations Source records use that same set of tags, or does it have templates that allow different tags in different Source records? This reminds me that when I changed from Generations to Legacy many many years ago, I was able to deal with some of the issues by changing Gedcom tags in Gen...

Mark, arthurk clearly stated that he would be converting his 'lumped' generic Source Citations into 'splitter' templated Source Citations No he didn't. What he said was "When I move to FH7 I am quite tempted to move to split census sources and include a tabulated transcription of each entry". It wo...

Here's my personal take on date of access... It's pointless because it's not actionable .... It's useful to have the year of publication because I can go to the appropriate library to find the 2003 edition of "My Life in Kenya", say... Which leads me back to the thought that a bibliography shouldn'...