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Mike, Well spotted. Rather than say "their Death" I have split the first expression into two, and it now reads: <para>{=TextIf(%FACT.DATE% = %CUR_PRIN.DEAT.DATE%,"Prior to ",)}{his/her}{=TextIf(%FACT.DATE% = %CUR_PRIN.DEAT.DATE%," death ",)}<{date}> {=TextIf(%FACT.DATE% = %CUR_PRIN.DEAT.DATE%,"the l...

And just to complete, I have now modified the Standard Death Fact to read as per below. It seems to perform properly in all cases. <para>{=TextIf(%FACT.DATE% = %CUR_PRIN.DEAT.DATE%,"Prior to his death ",)}<{date}> {=TextIf(%FACT.DATE% = %CUR_PRIN.DEAT.DATE%,"the last occupation of ",)}{principal} wa...

When I reported the apostrope fault to Calico Pie I received what I guess was an automated reply, quickly followed by a second message saying that they had already received another report of the same fault by an FHUG member.

Mike and Lorna, Thank you for your help. I now have a better understanding and a way forward, using Mike's expression in the Standard Occupation tag which will add my "final occupation" words if its Date is the same as the Death event Date. Easy when you know how. I have reported to Calico Pie that ...

Thank you Mike and Lorna for the clarification. I prepared a response to Lorna's message last night leaving it for today to send. Perhaps it is no longer necessary but for the sake of completeness I will do so, so here goes. ---"Thank you Lorna for your explanation, which is interesting and helpful....

Thank you Arthur, David and Mike. Plenty of ideas there, and I am clearer about how to go about creating these records.

Mike, I have substituted {individual/him/her} instead of {individual} in my first version, so now it reads: "The last occupation of {individual/him/her}, prior to {his/her} death, was {a/an value}{=GetLabelledText(%FACT.NOTE2%,"Time:")} {place}". The Narrative output remains the same, which is perfe...

UK Death Certificates generally state an occupation of the deceased when an adult. However, often it is not clear whether or not this occupation was carried on until the day he died, or had ceased some time earlier, an important difference I think. Using the standard Occupation Fact implies that the...

I have been trying to construct a fact to record the date of birth or death registration, where there are two parties, the Informant and the person recently born or died. After trying countless sentences, generally with Informant as {individual} and the born or deceased as a witness, and failing mis...

MIke, Thank you once again. Yes, I had clean forgotten that I had edited that specific Sentence. I think I meant to make the corresponding change to the Sentence Template but my attention was diverted from doing so. Also, I had not previously realised the significance of the beige or white backgroun...

I have constructed a custom attribute fact type for Admons i.e. no will made so letters of administration. I use the value element to record the value of the estate. It mostly reads well, but with one problem. The sentence template is: {individual} left no Will and {date} Letters of Administration w...

Thanks for the update. I have taken a look at it, and it is not for me because I keep my FH multimedia files outside the FH Projects folder.

I am a late arrival to this one... This looks like it may be a useful plugin. However, not only does Mike's Skydrive hyperlink lead nowhere, the entry in the KnowledgeBase Family Historian Plugins Alphabetic Index is more or less a "dead" link too. I wonder, was this plugin superseded by another one...

I have a slightly different experience to Don's. Firstly, I am not aware of any loss of Tag/Fact information in the direct import of 9500 individuals, but in 18 months of testing before committing to FH I modified several tags in TMG to better match the corresponding FH Facts, whilst the FH "Change ...

Mike,

"Yet again", thank you for your help. Having made the decison to incorporate address elements in an all-embracing Place, straightaway I replaced my "<at {address}> {place}" with "{_place}". However, your suggestison is much improved and I will adopt this forthwith.

Nigel

Finally (?), thank you all again for your help. I have decided to go down the road of keeping it simple, using Place only, for the time being at least. Yesterday evening I found another Forum discussion on this same topic from January 2015, entitled 'Place and Address - Appearance in Reports etc.' I...

Thank you all for so many helpful comments. Clearly, as I knew already, there is no straightforward answer, but it seems there are workarounds, compromises, etc. Compromising on the full "mailing label" for Address seems to be widely practised, combined with copious use of "<at {address}> {place}" i...

Yesterday's (21 Sep 2016) 14212|Preferred Format for Places thread has prompted me to ask a question or two, which I have been rehearsing for a while. After 18 months of testing and trying (and liking) Family Historian, and modifying my Master Genealogist (TMG) project to improve the Direct Import e...

A marriage license, issued either by church or state, authorises a couple to marry in circumstances where a marriage would otherwise be illegal e.g. if the necessary period of notice for the marriage has not been given. Whereas, in "normal" circumstances, the banns of marriage are the public announc...

Thanks for the Override tips. I still learn something useful every day!
Nigel

Mike and Lorna, Thank you for your explanations and comments. I should have said initially that before posting to the Forum I had experimented with the content of the Abbreviation field, mostly to no avail. The Help for Fact Definition says "If specified, the abbreviation will be used instead of the...

This is not a problem, more a matter of curiosity on my part. Can anyone tell me what governs the display of the Fact at the beginning of each line in the Fact tab. In most cases it is a full word (Born, Baptised, Death, Residence, etc.) but sometimes it is abbreviated (Educ. and Occup. for example)...

Yes, problem sorted.

Nigel

I get the same but perhaps slightly different. It says I have "chosen to open ... application/x-trash (40 bytes)". This is using the latest version of Firefox. With Edge it tries to download a file called "WLSNJTNG".

Nigel

For TMGv9 I suggest you join the TMG Refugees mailing list: tmg-refugees@rootsweb.com - and ask there. Sooner rather than later!