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Mike, I take your point about dates, but the Will event has not had its Note moved to the source. The text of the will was in the source anyway because I followed your suggestion, and there never was a list of Witnesses, only a set of _SHAR/ROLE pairs of tags. The TNG search will search for people w...

1. TNG has an Advanced Search People feature which allows you to search for people using a wide variety of filters - I will try to attach an image of it - but I am not clear in what circumstances one would want to use it. I think the cloned/synthesised events on a Witness's page should be named "Wit...

Thank you for the helpful explanation. I didn't comment on filtering because I am not sure what you mean by "search" and "filtering". Do you mean applying a filter in the Export Plugin, or in TNG's import process, or when viewing a TNG page, or something else? I have looked at witnesses in Legacy an...

I am not sure if I understand what you mean by "TNG effectively clones the Principal Event in much the same way as the Export Gedcom File Plugin does by default". TNG does do this from a file exported from the plugin on default setting, but on the Keep tags setting: 1 WILL 2 DATE 2 AUG 1520 2 _SHAR ...

Mea culpa. And I owe you another apology for inflicting my ideas on this forum before thinking them through properly. It is true, as I said, that TNG handles _SHAR tags but, from an FH user's point of view, it does so in a perverse and unhelpful way which I will discuss with Darrin. FH uses _SHAR as...

Thank you Mike, I hadn't noticed the expansion buttons.

Mike, regarding your point 3: On my computer when I can see the Sources For pane below the Fact tab, the Fact note is several lines of text deep but the Text From Source box will only show one line of text at a time and I find it difficult to read a long piece of text there. In referring to the floa...

Perhaps, as a TNG user, I was looking from a different perspective. It seems to me preferable to have only one copy on a website of most of the content but a simple and quick route to see it. TNG performs this function very well. So if I am looking at a person's page and notice that he was a benefic...

This is just a footnote to Mike. I tried your suggestion of putting the text of a will in the Source Text field instead of the Note field but I am not happy with it: 1. It still leaves the list of Witnesses under Note when exported from FH 2. I can understand the benefit of using this technique for ...

I have replied to Darrin as below: I had 3 issues when trying to display in TNG the witness events in trees/gedcoms produced by Family Historian. A. Bulk Witness events were taking up too much space when displayed in TNG, but that was not because of TNG and has been partly solved by suggestions made...

I have tried the settings you suggest Mike, and in some ways it gives a better result than using "Move to Fact Note" in that it no longer lists all the witnesses on the witness's page in TNG, so the page is shorter and easier to read, particularly if the text of the wills is in the source footnotes....

I have now.

I have followed up Mike's reference to ASSO tags and adapted my edit programme to use them. This gives me exactly what I want - a succint description of the witness role on the witness's page and a 1-click link to the Principal's page which shows the full details of the event. See attachment.

I have written a small programme to edit the gedcom file produced by the plugin which has given me mostly what I want (see attachment for same person as my previous post). The file concerned has 3,291 individuals and 951 witness role events so would be very laborious to edit by hand; the file size h...

Thank you for the suggestion about using the text from source field. I will try it out. I got into the habit of using the Event Note field while using Legacy where the source text is several clicks away from the Event details - I can see that it would be easier to use in FH. You say "If the Witness ...

I am using the Witness Fact mainly for wills but I think my "problem" applies to other facts with witnesses. In FH I enter a summary of the will in the Note field of the Principal's Fact. When exported to TNG this works well for the Principal but the Individual page in TNG for each Witness contains ...

Thanks, David

I feel I must have overlooked something in asking such a simple question but here goes:

Is there a simple way to locate an individual's record quickly by using its Record Id?

I don't think that an old version of Flash is the problem. Mine was last updated 3 days ago, and my browser cannot be blocking it since it is the Flash plug-in which displays the black screen. I get the same behaviour with Microsoft Edge as well as with Firefox. I am using Windows 10 64-bit , could ...

I am wondering whether it is something to do with Adobe Flash Player. If I right-click on the black screen I get a Flash context menu; I tried clicking on "Play" on this menu and then got a message saying "Movie not loaded". Thank you for your tip about using your iPad - I have now managed to access...

Not for me - I still get the same black screen using either the original link or the one in the "thank you for attending" email.

I was looking forward to watching the FH/fmp webinar yesterday but when it came to time to log in all I got was a comletely black page. I had registered successfully, received the reminder emails and had tested the preview video succesfully. I tried several more times (partly because of the confusio...

All working OK now thank you. I will try to make more use of the Knowledge Base in future. I found that after importing from the gedcom with Accept All Custom Event Types selected, I had to go into Custom Event Types in the TNG admin menu and change some them from Ignore to Accept and then repeat th...

I was following what I thought were the instructions for Split Tree Helper - to export a copy gedcom and then open it and use the helper on that, so I must have missed something about using it on a project. I have now used your workround and it worked OK. I uploaded the resulting Gedcom to a TNG sit...

If I RUN the plug-in in my normal project, I get the correct Options window. But if I create a new GEDCOM either by using the Split Tree Helper of by using the named list method in this thread. I get an error message: [string "C:\ProgramData\Calico Pie\Family Historian\..."]:638: Cannot Make Folder:...