Family Historian User Group

One thing that I found different and extremely useful with this census, is that if you have Irish ancestors, their place of birth is more specific. Up until 1911 census, my great grandmother’s birthplace varied between Ireland and Cork, Ireland. The 1921 census narrowed it down to Skibbereen Parish,...

Could it be you already have the file in your media? Also it strikes me that the part of the file name beginning with GBPRS etc, may be the name of the file actually downloaded from whatever website you got it from. To my mind, saving this detail may be a waste of your time, as it doesn’t allow for ...

Simon,
No thank you. I'd rather have the ability to switch it off altogether

Simon,

Thanks for that. IPressing a key doesn't close it immediately, but waits until file has loaded - good enough.

All I now need is for property box to float on opening as it is set up to do!

Our messages crossed

Any updates on this? Now that I've got a new superfast PC, the wait for the flash screen to disappear before I can begin work is getting annoying. I want the proerty box to float on opening FH, something it fails to do, so I have to set it to Docked on opening, but then find I can't click the 'float...

Miketate, It is an easy trap to fall into. and often occurs when you add children from censuses, not realising the father has married again between censuses, so some children end up hanging from wrong parents. Post 1837 it pays to check GRO entries for every child to confirm correct parents have bee...

laz_gen wrote: ↑

12 Aug 2022 11:11

The suggestion from Mike Loney omits the second parameter yet still works. I can see no difference in the query output if the parameter is present or missing.

Actually is was FH itself that auto-corrected/ tidied up my attempt at the expression. It wasn't a conscious effort on my part

Whilst I understand your caution, I think that there are no copyright restrictions on certificates issued by GRO. 1. There is certainly no copyright markings on any of the certificates I own 2. I have seen lots of such certificate images in Ancestry trees. 3. Providing a copy of a certificate is oft...

I think you have an error in your syntax. I just created a simple query as follows Col1: %INDI% Col2: =Relationship(Record(1,"I"),,TEXT,1) If 1 is the normal record ID of your root, this will always produces a list of individuals and their relationship to your 'real' root, regardless of you changing...

Miketate, I am truly astonished that excel still uses such an antiquated system for dates.

Like Mark, I use Libreoffice, (anything but Microsoft ) which doesn’t suffer the same problem, so I had assumed wrongly that the latest excel used a similar system - my mistake

Be aware that many general software applications, including Excel, do not deal with dates earlier than the 20th century very well, but if you are only plotting years, that is not a constaint. Mark, I think that only applies if you use YY format instead of YYYY. If you put full year in, there should...

I don't think that's the case here, Mike L. The error message says: Citation field code not valid in this context. FH clearly know the context (because otherwise how would it know?) and what's gone wrong, so could say: Citation field code not valid in Bibliography. That’s assuming they knew how the...

It would be nice if that was the error message generated, rather than one that just says (and I'm paraphrasing) "you're doing something wrong, but we won't tell you what". So many software packages do this, leaving the user to figure it out for themselves, or, in this case, ask for help on this for...

Bev, I agree with ColeValleyGirl, but don’t get hung up on ‘doing the right thing’. At the end of the day, a source is merely the evidence you used to arrive at a particular conclusion. I.e. Q Why did you think he was baptised at a certain place at a certain time. A from the parish register image of...

Whatever the last sort order is used for sources in the Records Window, is the order they will be presented to the user when adding an existing source. Also, remember each source record is given an ID when created, so the most recent will have the highest ID, so sorting by ID in descending order, wi...

Thanks Mike, it worked a treat. It prompted me to sort out my files, many of which also contained the custom ID as an identifier within the file name. I went back to good old MS-DOS, and used a similar technique using the REN(ame) command in the command line window i.e. REN T*.* J*.* It had been on ...

Got it!
My mistake! i was searching for T%d+, and writing J%1, which gave TJxxxx, when i wanted Jxxxxx.
I realised I should have been searching for T(%d+), which then gave me Jxxxxx, just what I wanted!

Thanks for the plugin Mike

Miketate, Thanks, my eyesight must be getting bad, I didn’t even spot that option. :oops: That worked, and I can now find all those with the T , but as I’m not too sure how LUA patterns work, what do I set the replace field to, so that the whole of the ID is copied with just the T being replace with...

Duh-I should have thought of that Ctrl- did the trick, thanks Jane
Mind you, judging by size of text, I must have done it about 6 times to get it as big as it was!

My custom ID's are in the form 1. Prefix letter T or J 2. 5 Digit number (padded with leading 0's 3. Followed by an indeterminate number of lower case letters e.g T00245abcd or J00347 In an attempt to standardise them, the first step is to change all appropriate prefixes from a T to a J. I set scope...

Whilst viewing the forum, I must have inadvertantly pressed a key or keys on my keyboard, which caused the size of the text on the page to increase.

What did I do? Is there any way to restore it to normal?
(NB All other tabs in Firefox have not been affected)

I agree with Adrian on the Lumper/Splitter mixing argument. I am a splitter when it comes to Census and GRO, where I have a source for each Census Image, and a source for each GRO Reference (B, M & D). However, when it comes to parish register entries for Baptism marriages and Burials I am a Lumper,...

Sounds very much like a programme restiction, (512 being an exact multiple of 2.)
I suggest you raise it with Calico, perhaps they can explain why and perhaps even extend the limit.

LornaCraig wrote: ↑

18 Jul 2022 12:07

Gowermick, Jacqui has said that she can't tell which Mac is which. That's the problem.
Jacqui, does this help? https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201581

Lorna, I realised that, that’s why I added the ‘Sorry…’

When you go to register your new copy, calico will spot your attempt to register a 3rd copy and list your existing copies and ask you which one you wish to delete. Hopefully you’ll recognise which one will need deleting😀 Quite simple really Sorry, I didn’t read your post in full. However if you dele...