Family Historian User Group

Mike, The main field that I find myself editing (basically every time I add a link) is the Title. For most links, I'm not so interested in the date and/or notes. I agree, it's not so difficult to edit the media record afterwards to fix the title. It's just more work. At least at the moment, I see my...

Mike,

I learned about this plugin now. So nice! Simple and elegant. Thank you!

But, of course, if you've put it out there for the users, they will have change requests, won't they?

Would it be difficult to add the ability to edit the Title to the creation dialog?

Shosh

Ian,

I will wait patiently for your update for v6.1.

Looking forward to it...

Shosh

John,

Are you running 6.1?

Shosh

Hi Ian,

Yes, I am running 6.1. So, if I understand you correctly, that's what's causing my problem. I'll wait for your fix.

Shosh

Hi Ian,

When I tried running your plugin, I received the message "Attempting to delete a null pointer OBJE[1]"

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Shosh

Thank you for your suggestions. Moynoe makes sense. My ancestor was born circa 1809, so now I need to figure out what kind of records are available (a quick scan didn't reveal very much). At least I have a direction now.

Shoshana

Hi all, I finally have a clue for the origins of one of my immigrant ancestors. (to the USA in 1843) The clue comes from a transcription of an ad placed in "The Boston Pilot" by his sister. In the ad, she says that he is from "parish of Mino, county Clare." But, there doesn't seem to be a parish of ...

Mike,

I have a clear direction for further research and investigation now. I have a number of other things to do, but will start chipping away at this task.

Do you intend to preserve converted FTM structures (say source citations) so that they may be restored during export?

Shosh

Mike, I guess I didn't mention fact notes because it just seemed obvious that I would be using them for the standard purpose. Yes, notes can be attached to the Name . I guess that's what I thought you meant when you were talking about Name Tags since that's how I refer to them when talking about the...

Mike, I'm still feeling my way around FTM and learning what it can do. I'm figuring out how to accomodate both my and my husband's way of working (which are quite different). INDI records Without thinking about it too much, I would say that I will probably want to use both kinds of person notes. Usi...

Mike, You are correct, citations are linked to facts (either individual or shared [fam]). FTM reporting facilities are fairly limited when it comes to customization. I believe that the only option you have on reports is whether or not to include them. You have the option of marking an entire note pr...

Mike, Preserving information in note fields What happens if I'm using note fields for "real" information? If I understand correctly (from wading through the workflow thread) you are appending the information you want to retain to the end of any existing notes. So, my stuff will appear at the beginni...

Mike, Using Named Lists At the moment I'm using Named Lists for individuals. I hadn't thought about the implications (or potential advantages) of using them for other kinds of records. I understand if I decide to use named lists for any kind of record, I will need to preserve the FH record id. So, t...

Jim,

This is definitely going to be my approach, at least initially. Since I've just started using FH I have the opportunity of deciding what features to use (and how) in order to keep the syncing process as simple as possible.

Shosh

Mike, I believe that records may be divided into the following groups vis-a-vis treatment by the merge routine. 1. Records which do not need to be processed -- leave them as they are - HEAD - SUBN - SUBM - PLAC 2. Records which will be replaced in their entirety - SOUR - REPO - NOTE? 3. Records with...

Mike, In fact I am working on the "unique id" issue at the moment. All of this is complicated by the fact that I currently have 2 versions of my database -- FH (which was migrated from TMG) and FTM/Ancestry. Both contain unique data and one of my current tasks is to make sure that they both contain ...

Jim, On the face of it, it would certainly be much less work to go directly from FTM to TNG. However, FH offers additional valuable data options as well as much stronger reporting facilities, so the additional work is well worth it. It would be wonderful if Ancestry published their API. We all know ...

Regarding citations...

I'm still thinking about this, but I'm definitely a splitter, so I will probably implement a conversion from FTM's "lumped" sources to "split" sources, so that I can attach the media links to the source.

Shosh

Mike,

Regarding TNG... I'm really just starting to look at this and there are only so many hours in the day. From the little that I have done, it is clear to me that the GEDCOM export module will prove very useful when I get to this stage.

Shosh

Mike, Nick's approach assumes that the user will be moving data from FH to FTM. I did a lot of thinking about this and realized that there is a problem with this approach. (But perhaps Nick has come up with a solution) If the user updates an individual's birth date, for example, in FH, as far as I k...

Hi All, I've been wading through the thread and knowledge base articles regarding Ancestry/FTM - FH Workflow and doing a lot of thinking and have decided to implement a different approach. This in no way implies a criticism of Nick's approach. I just have a different way of working. I'm posting here...

I know that technically we can edit the KB ourselves, but, as such a newbie to FH, I wouldn't dare. Perhaps a few years from now...

Anyway, I'm still thinking about what I would call the "Glossary." So far, I haven't been able to come up with anything better.

Shosh

Mike,

Drat! Now you've got me thinking. "Compendium" doesn't strike me as something I would look for... I would tend to call it "Index" or "Help" but that doesn't seem right and there's already a general index. Hmm...

Shosh

Mike,

I just took a look at the "Glossary." Interesting, I wouldn't have though to look there for this kind of content. There's a lot of good stuff here. I've always thought that a glossary was like a dictionary. It this a difference between Brit and Yank-speak?

Shosh