Family Historian User Group

Teresa & Adrian - thanks for signing and you are both correct re the government petition is only open to Australians. I signed when it was first released and there was no declaration. It was there upon checking the petition this morning - gremlins or added later? These are now the correct links: Any...

Teresa - there are a number of petitions to sign for TROVE and these are the main ones: https://www.change.org/p/fully-fund-trove (28,000+ signatures) https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN4747 (10,000+ signatures) I didn't come across anything that said you had to be a resident of Australia...

Simon - I must commend Calico Pie for the excellent work on version 6.1 for citation media to accommodate FTM users but on the Yellow Source Citation Pane there's still a lack of "visual" citation estate space on the "Where within Source" pane and the "Text from Source" pane for those that use Metho...

Simon - I've reviewed my current FH projects and also uploaded a new FTM gedcom to FH as another test site and the media enhancements for either a source or a citation are excellent.

There's been some interesting discussion here re sources/citations and media and there's no single answer to suit everyone. As a long time FTM user and happy with the release of 6.1.2 I do acknowledge that more needs to be done so let me explain how FTM works as I'm on the other side of the fence an...

Doc7.docx If you're a FTM user using a citation to record your data and attach media then my enhancement recommendation is the only way to go as it matches the FTM method. FH Source - if you have a census you may record the Pro, Piece, Folio etc in the "Title." The transcript of the census i.e. nam...

I've tested my FTM with the new citation method and it's an excellent job done by the Calico Pie crew. I have only tested on current FH data and have not yet loaded a new Gedcom to test other enhancements. I agree with all the comments above there should be something to indicate that media can be at...

In a previous thread I recommended the following and as a FTM user this is an important enhancement - "If a media button was added to the citation window then I recommend a citation enhancement for the "Where within Source" pane and the "Text from Source" pane where both panes be "visually" increase...

Candy - I'm a FTM user and I've done a number of test GEDCOMs into FH and most of the data is there, hidden in some cases, a few issues still to be sorted, but as Mike says Ancestry gave very little notice of the retirement of FTM and it's the FTM GEDCOM that's causing the problems - and you will fi...

I've been following this link from the day Ancestry announced they were going to retire FTM. The post on FH is now there. GenalogyTools: Importing Your FTM Tree into Family Historian 6 Also click on the link within the article for a comparison of all the current genealogy packages accepting a GEDCOM...

My apologies Mike as yesterday and previously I must have clicked elsewhere on the same line as I had the same dropdown list as per the KB advice. I must be more careful in the future but it tells me that FH can be very intuitive in every pane. I've added an image to a citation and changed the Facts...

Mike re: Information recorded within a citation and Sources and Citations - how to use them - I have tried this previously and I tried it again today and I can only link an image back to a source and not to a citation. Every time I link a different image to a different citation that belongs to the s...

Mike - finally the thread I've been waiting for and I would suggest the same for a lot of FTM users! I'm a FTM user, purchased FH a few weeks ago, I've had a few posts on the forum, and now I've decided to wait for FTM solutions from FH until I proceed any further. However - as a FTM user there is o...

Hi Mike, The problem I have is relinking all individuals after ID number 93 to all media in TNG and the question was whether there was a better way to do this rather than doing it manually. You have given me the Export Gedcom File Plugin and the Knowledge Base > Export Gedcom File ~ (TNG) The Next G...

Hi Mike, I would never mess with the FH Record ID as I would always avoid any possible future conflicts that it could create. The Export Gedcom File Plugin looks interesting and I'll definitely look closer into that. Thanks for that. The HTML code is not impacted by Record ID. If you reread the sent...

Hi, Let's say you have 200 people in your database and you delete ID number 150, therefore as I read in the help section it says there will be a gap in the ID numbers as FH will never reuse record ID's when creating new ones i.e. ID number 150 will remain empty. I would assume to keep all the number...

Hi Rick,

You're correct. I updated a few facts and it's the same for all of them in the Records window as they now also show the date.

Regards

Darryl

Thanks Mike.

I have some further study and research to do for FH.

dg

Hi David & Mike, Thanks for that. Using Mike's text it aligns perfectly and I like the 2 dashes with no source and no media. I haven't come across that part of adding advanced text to facts in FH as I've only owned it for a few days but already I can see the types of customisation that can be done s...

Hi David & Mike, I added the text to some facts and attributes: {=ExistsText(%FACT.SOUR%, "*" )}{=ExistsText(%FACT.SOUR>OBJE%,"+")} and it created the *+ where appropriate however the fact text has disappeared i.e. the fact column will show *+ then "blank." What would need to be changed to get back ...

David & Mike - that is exactly what I require. It's after midnight in this part of the world so I'll have a look at it in the morning - I'm already in your tomorrow! Nick - this is a good tool which I have used in FTM and even though a report will work these indicators are excellent to save you time...

Wrong answer there! The wish list is to open the Property Box and not have to click on any facts as an icon for an image or a new icon for a source will be shown against all the facts so at a glance you can see what's there and what's not there. I've already found it to be very repetitive clicking o...

Hi Nick, That makes more sense to attach media to a citation as I couldn't find that in the help file - it certainly isn't very intuitive! You need a different mindset for FH as most of the genealogy programs on the market are US based so they have a sequence of create the source then create the cit...

Hi all, I experimented with sources today on the Sample Project and I have a few comments (I haven't used AS yet and please correct me if I haven't used the right procedures on any of the following): (1) I created a single source "1881 Census" as a master source and then created citations for Hampsh...

Hi all, I'm a FTM user who purchased FH a few days ago so I did an intensive study of its program as well as FHUG, upgraded to 6.1 and imported a GEDCOM successfully to experiment with and the usual missing bits were things such as no media links, some missing notes, some facts not showing such as F...