Family Historian User Group

My conversion from RootsMagic has resulted in some facts, for example, "illness," which appears in the custom fact set twice, once as an event and once as an attribute. Should I be combining them using the Change Any Fact plugin?

Sorry, Mike. I think I've got it in focus now. Your plugin seems to work perfectly. My remaining problem is that GedSite does not support Family Historian functions in generating sentences but does support a subset of Data References. I have to think carefully about how best to proceed. If I use the...

Dear Mike, The Move _UNCAT to Labelled Note plug in has successfully saved all the data from the RM7 [desc] fields and put them into the the notes section of the individual's property box. The format is [[data]]. However, I am unable to use the data in sentences either by adding {note} or {value} to...

Thank you, Mike. I would very much like to have an _UNCAT plugin along the lines you suggested. My conversion from RootsMagic is going to be a one-time affair. The new version of RootsMagic is unusable, at least by me, and I plan to abandon it completely. The most frequent output for my genealogical...

Dear Mike, I don't have an _UNCAT plugin and do not see it on the plugin store. The _UNCAT UDFs do not show up in the Change Any Fact plug in. The format you suggested for the _UNCATs would be perfect. I think , however, that when I convert (RM7 --> FH7.02) with "Move invalid data into note fields w...

Thank you, Mike. I'll do a fresh conversion tonight and clean up the various UID entries. I also seem to have some Family Search codes. Is there any point in keeping them? Your _UNCAT plugins are sure to be helpful, and I'm still hoping to learn how to deal with _SDATE. Thanks again for all your hel...

Dear Mike, I have several hundred _UNCAT cases. Is there any reason I shouldn't avoid them by ticking "Move invalid data into note fields where possible?" That will preserve the data, and in most cases I can fix the resulting reports by changing the default FH7 default sentences. As for the others, ...

Dear Mike, Here is the fragment. Move data into note fields was unticked. It results in "a degree in dentistry" showing us as _UNCAT with a star bullet. I should add that in the original conversion which I sent you I had edited out all the "2 _PRIM Y" entries from the source GEDCOM. As you see, I di...

Dear Mike, The _SDATE example I sent does indeed convert to a legitimate FH7 sort date. The UDF list generated by the plugin, however, shows hundreds of instances of sort dates which do show the star bullet. Most of them, are RM7 sort dates which were connected to the ALT NAME fact in RM7 — mostly m...

Dear Mike, I think I may have this aspect of my conversion solved. I started over after ticking the box for "Move invalid data into note fields where possible." It looks as though _UNCAT has completely disappeared from the list of UDFs. I believe that the only remaining UDFs are the RM7 sort dates: ...

I meant attributes, not "values"

I believe they are all associated with standard values; they all comprised description fields for facts that FH7 has already accepted. I would very much like to try your plug-in. Mea culpa , however. On reviewing my file loading preference I noticed that I failed to tick "Move invalkid data into not...

Thank you, Mike. It is indeed _UNCAT. I've attached a small file showing what a typical one looks like.

The best disposition of these would be to have them attached to the underlying fact as a note; that way I can work them into appropriate sentences.

Thanks so much for your help.

After my conversion from RootsMagic I have manged to get rid of most of the UDF fields using the Change Any Fact plugin. I am left with about 1300 UNCAT UDFs, most of which have come from the RM fact description field. I would like to change them all to notes, but I cannot find the UNCATs in the Cha...

I am trying to convert from RootsMagic 7 using a GEDCOM which incorporates the RootsMagic extended details. When I do so, many of the RM sentence structures are found in FH7. As they are a different template language, of course they don't work properly. So what I want to do is to perform the import ...

Thank you all! I hope to try Mike's solution this afternoon.

I see that fact sentence templates can be restored individually. Is there a way to do restore all of them to their defaults en masse?

Can the Search and Replace plug in be set up to italicize text that lies between <i> and </i>? That would be extremely useful for those converting data from RootsMagic and probably others.

If that plugin won't work is there one that will?

Thank you, Mike. That will be a great help — I think I have more than 400 Residence(fam) facts. To convert them manually, even in the age of the coronavirus, is not an inviting prospect.

I too am moving from RootsMagic. The import went smoothly with one exception: FH7 successfully handled all of my RM facts except for Residence(fam). That data comes in as undefined, but when I attempt to define the fact, the new definition does not associate to the data. Instead, a new undefined fac...

I think we have to wait until Calico Pie deals with the bug. As Mike Tate suggested, I too have reported it. A ticket has been opened but there's been no action as yet. Calico Pie must have many inquiries and there may be other problems to fix. I certainly wouldn't delete any of the underlying data....

Thanks so much, Mike. I've done as you suggested, although the red-marked undefined residence reconstitutes itself immediately. I will write to Calico Pie as you suggested. When the bug is fixed I'll probably start all over with a fresh conversion from RootsMagic. There's some useful work I can do o...

Here is the GEDCOM entry for one of the facts which are part of the undefined Residence: 1 RESI 2 DATE 17 APR 1940 2 _SHAR @I8@ 3 ROLE Bx_child_resident 2 PLAC Bronx, New York 2 ADDR 219 Grant Avenue 2 SOUR @S611@ 3 PAGE Jack Lax household 1 HUSB @I6@ 1 WIFE @I7@ 1 CHIL @I8@ 1 CHIL @I191@ 1 CHIL @I1...

Dear Mike, I think I understand the label trick. the problem is that the minute I define the undefined residence tag and place it in a fact set, a new undefined one springs up immediately. I can't delete it because it points to data and the one I've just defined has no effect on the sentence templat...

Dear Mike, Again, thank you so much. Order is beginning to emeerge from chaos. As you suggested, I've defined all my undefined facts but one, and placed them into a fact set. The one remaining is a problem. It's a residence tag. When I define it and place it in a my fact set it does not register or ...