Family Historian User Group

ColeValleyGirl, Thank you, that is exactly what I need. I tried the built in census form but that does not work well if I try to print it in a narrative report. The census spans multiple pages and overlays the normal output from FH. This will work perfectly. I can reduce the items from a census to a...

I have been working with the tables in the new note function and it is working very well. I want to create a table format that I can import or copy paste etc. from a saved location into the note field. I have created a table structure in Excel 2010 and it seems to copy in well. Is there any alternat...

Mike, Thank you for your response. Adding a new line in the note field may just do the job. I'm surprised no one else seems to have asked about this. I was hoping that maybe CP/FH might do something for this but if I am alone in this then it probably shouldn't be done. I'm still waiting for a fix in...

I am trying to get a readable narrative report from FH 7.0.3. Everything comes out as one long paragraph. I know I can add a <para> or a <br> to a sentence to get some formatting but that is very unworkable for good formatting. I either need to modify a sentence structure and then that applies to al...

I found the beneficiaries in the notes tab.

I read with interest the ability to customize the property Box with new tabs. I found on FHUG a Wills tab and this is what I found (All from the FHUG Download Type: Property Box Tabs): Downloaded Enhanced Death and Burial Fact set Downloaded Wills (property Box Tab) Filling in the data I get the fol...

Mike, I read your response with great interest as I have been adding witnesses that are not part of the family tree as just names. I didn’t want to clutter up my family tree. RM puts out the following: 1 CHAN 2 DATE 10 FEB 2021 1 BIRT 2 _SHAR 3 GIVN Harry 3 SURN Jones 3 ROLE Witness This produced th...

Thank you all for your responses. Based on Mike's comments I will go with this: The EVEN tag will not allow a descriptor. The FACT tag will. Bottom line for me is if I change all the EVEN that have descriptors to FACT with a descriptor then that is an acceptable path to take. I would not want to sta...

Whether the documentation is correct or in error is not the important issue right now. If FH is going to go with EVEN and FACT with no descriptor then I have a large problem because I don't have a mechanism to get my data from RM to FH. Is there any way to get a direction from CP on what they plan t...

Mike, I greatly value your expertise and knowledge and I am far from an expert on GEDCOM but from all that I have read it seems that the EVEN and FACT tag should be allowed to have a descriptor on the same line like: 1 EVEN some pertinent info on this fact The info in the descriptor should be placed...

Sorry about the long post. There has been some discussion on this forum about the GEDCOM standard and how FH interprets and implements that standard. In FH version 6 I was having difficulty importing from RootsMagic since they have implemented their interpretation of GEDCOM 5.5.1 to allow an EVEN ta...

Is it possible to extract just a person surname or given name in a sentence. I'm thinking of something like "{date:YEAR}"

I was hoping to get just the surname or just the given name

Mike, What I am seeing is the text or sentence is not being truncated as I create the sentence but it appears that certainly in the narrative report it seems to ignore anything past about 1000 characters. I created a sentence structure that was just over 1000 and I put just plain text as the very la...

I started out with TMG and I made full use of the formatting capabilities provided. In 2013-2014 I needed to make a switch and at that time I chose Rootsmagic. I spent a considerable amount of time changing all the features provided in TMG that were no longer supported by any vendor that I saw at th...

Thank you Mike.

Such a simple fix - to my knowledge of FH.

That worked just as you described and now I can see all the duplicate facts that I have created in multiple fact sets. Time to clean up my act before making the move permanent

I just copied the standard birth fact to a custom set of facts. I wanted to experiment with different sentences. It did not copy but did a move from the standard set to the custom set which was not what I intended. I tried to copy it back to standard but was told I cannot do that. I also inadvertent...

I believe I saw this discussion somewhere but cannot find it now. When placing a <para> in the sentence template it all works fine unless it is the first of that sentence and then it seems to get dropped as a leading space. This appears to be correct. Is this a problem to be fixed or must we accept ...

Now that FH7 is out we are seeing the usual growing pains as people migrate to the new version. Many are user related and are not seen by other users. It could be their PC or something that they have done to make the migration more difficult. There are however some issues that are real and universal...

Mike, That is exactly what I am talking about but I wonder if this is the correct way to do this since 5.5.1 does not support it and FH may completely withdraw support at sometime because of GEDCOM. One note using the {note} in the sentence only affects the sentences that use it. Therefore the forma...

Yes. I use notes to include actual genealogical data that apply to a particular fact/event. That info should be within the footnote or citation numbering so that someone can see that the data has sources. I always want to use notes at the end of a fact as perhaps some note about the fact such as a p...

Mike, I reported the problem to CP and their explanation is: "Have you changed the sentence template for any of your fact definitions to include the {note} code (see Fact Types on the Tools menu)? This is special code (called a sentence template code) that allows the note associated with a fact to b...

Thanks Mike,

Since I put a lot of my data into notes is there no way to format these fields or will I need to wait until creating an rtf file and edit that?

I just installed V7 and I have succeeded in formatting text in a note field for a fact. The resulting sentence does not show the formatting and an rtf file also does not show the formatting.

V7 is very new so I did not find the answer in the forum. What am I doing wrong?

Mike When I tested the first solution I realized that I would need to make changes to the sentence. Other than the head of household I will be putting everyone down after the "other member" wording. I am hoping that the "other members" test does not include the primary person for this fact but just ...

Mike, Thank you for the response. I tried the first solution and it worked fine but I will need to refine my sentence structure slightly. The second solution where the order of witnesses is important are you referring to the order in the sentence structure itself or in the order the witnesses appear...