Family Historian User Group

Mike, Yes, the particular Fact Note in question refers to just Principal 1. There would be cases where there was a shared fact with a witness, but not in the case being referred to here. It looks like the template imported from TMG references Principal 2 in all cases. However, even though the templa...

I'm a TMG refugee. I'm still trying to sort things out as the TMG specific import while it did many things well also has created some problems. Here is one that been giving me a headache: The Fact Note sentence template imported from TMG seems to have an error in it somewhere, but I can’t figure out...

Well, I'm close to giving up and going back to GedSite. I really like TNG for the ability for other relatives to collaborate. However, I'm just running into too many problems, and I'm spending too much time on import anomalies, which is taking away from time I could spend on actual genealogy. As man...

Mike: Thanks for your response. I'm only now getting back into this sticky wicket, as you know sometimes life can get in the way of genealogy! I will follow up looking at the materials you suggest. -- Carl

I've been struggling to get a good export from FH to import into TNG. I've been exchanging information on the TNG Community forum on this issue. Rather than repeat it all here, I'll supply a link to that conversation: https://tng.community/index.php?/forums/topic/16885-family-historian-import-proble...

Jane, I started having this problem again, though this time it wasn't the same error message. I renamed the folder you indicated should be deleted. I decided to rename it just in case something went wrong. However, nothing went wrong and your fix got my FMP hints working again. I can now safely dele...

Thanks for the reponses, folks. For the record, it's still not working today. I also have had this experience in the past, but it's always been short-lived In those cases, if I come back in an hour or so, it'll be working again. It's now been the better part of a week that it's been broken. I bought...

For the last two days every time that I click on a hint link to FMP I get an error message. See below. I wonder if anyone else has been experiencing this behavior. Links to MyHeritage.com from hints are still working fine. I'm tryiing to access FMP from the USA. Thanks for any help you can give me. ...

I can't figure out how to record a DNA match. I thought there was a fact type in the fact list called "DNA Fact," but it's not there. What I need to record is one case where an autosomal DNA match shows a considerably closer relationship than paper documents, suggesting that I relate to this individ...

I'm glad you got there in the end. Unfortunately you can't have more than two items on a line, even though there would be room for more tick boxes in the same line. Well, Lorna, it seems it would be easy to solve this issue with a software update. I hope that they do that, as it would make the scre...

Thanks, David, Lorna, and Mike. I finally got it right. For some reason I misread the instructions, and then when I didn't see the <Custom Item> listing because it was above the scroll of the Custom Property Box window, I improvised and totally screwed up. But, I've got it now. Thanks for your patie...

You don't appear to have followed instruction (2) - "Untick 'Show most commonly-used items only'", which is underneath the list of available items. Actually, I did that but posted a screenshot with it checked. Here's a screenshot with it unchecked, and with the area in view where CW Service should ...

Lorna, I tried to follow your instructions, but I'm getting lost. I got to the point that I created a new Tab in the Customize Property Box thinking I could then connect with my CW Service Flag, but I don't see how to do the next step. Maybe I've totally gone in the wrong direction. Further guidance...

I tried Lorna's suggestion and found the attached information, which seems to say that "CW Service" is already designated as a Flag. So, how can I find it to place it as checkbox? By the way, when I try to access >Edit>Record Flags, Record Flags is greyed out and can't be accessed. Carl CW Service F...

Mike, I ran the UDF plugin which reported "no UDFs found." I then looked for hidden Fact Types, however, CW Service was not listed. I know that somewhere this flag was imported, because I saw it right after the import, and one other time when I was fiddling around I saw it, but I can't seem to remem...

I have a related, but slightly difference question. When I did my import from TMG I had a flag called "CW Service," indicating that the person had served in military in the United States Civil War. This tag was imported, as I saw at the time. I can not find it now. I would like to have the "check bo...

Thank you, this was helpful. I did a combination of delete in one case and merge in another got it all looking right. -- Carl

I have a few cases of duplicate people with different ID numbers that I would like to merge into one person. For instance, Sophie Jane Spence has both ID number 4109 and 6351. Her father James Spence has ID numbers 6343 and 6356. How do I merge these duplicate people? This was easily done in TMG. I'...

Thanks, Mike, this seemed to have solved the problem!

BTW, did you get the PM I sent a few weeks about about Devon genealogy?

Carl

OK, I have another refugee question. When I create a website using John Cardinal's GedSite program, I've discovered that every birth of is listed so that the screen of a person is cluttered with "she witnessed the birth of son/daughter John Doe." This is useless duplication since the children are li...

OK, thanks, Mike. I got it done, but boy was that a convoluted process. Having to open a Named List that you didn't want, like Bookmarks, in order to access the menu allowing you to create a new list seemed awkward at best. But all's well that ends well, I guess!

Mike, I followed your step-by-step instructions and replaced all of the Place entries with either Text or URL as relevant. However, I'm now stuck on the next procedure -- deleting multiple records. The link you provided says the following: "Copy all the records you want to delete to a Named List (cr...

Thanks, Mike. I will attend to this on Monday. I will be out of town this weekend. FYI: I had previously run the Create Source Template Definitions plugin. -- Carl

Linda, thanks for your response re: templates and locations. That explained the TMG situation very clearly. Mike: Yes, I would like detailed instructions on making these changes. I'm very much a newbie to FH, and I don't know my way around the program all that well. On the TMG side, I was a beta tes...

Mike says: Carl, what I would like to see is the TMG version of the URL that import to your screenshot 0002, Part 1 (http... etc) URL. i.e. Similar screenshots to the TMG and FH ones you already provided for military companies, etc. Unless you can simply confirm that those URL appear in the Standard...