Family Historian User Group

Thanks, Mike. Thanks for the troubleshooting help! No, I hadn't copied the AS settings since I didn't really have any customization. But, just to be sure, I've now done that none, per the instructions, and AS still seems fine. I also deleted the plug-in data, as you suggested, but I'm still seeing t...

I recently got a new computer. FH6 and AS were working fine on my old computer. First, I installed FH6 on the new computer, and migrated settings from old PC to new PC using the "Backup and Restore" plugin. It seems to work fine and as far as I can tell my settings were migrated successfully. So far...

An alternative way is to go to the Records Window, Families tab and select the family record there. Huh. Who knew there was a Families tab on the Records window? I didn't, until now! Not sure why/how, but I didn't have a Families tab, so after you mentioned it I poked around, and went to View > Rec...

tatewise wrote: But of course I've heard nothing and nothing has changed.

Hey, it's only been 5 years... be patient

I think their rationale is that group photos are more likely to be attached to a Family record in their complete form, while links to individuals will usually be 'frame' links. OK, Stupid Question 1: Do I get to the Family record by going to the "All" tab and selecting the "Parents family" or "Spou...

Hmm, interesting. OK, so I changed the title to be "Cecilia Marie & Christina (L to R)". No note. No date. Then, in the media window for the person/link, the "Link to Person" section is empty. No note. None of the checkboxes are checked. But when I generate an Individual Narrative, the caption is ge...

Apologies if this is a repeat question - I tried searching the forum and couldn't find anything but I have to think this is a common thing... I have a group photo, I'd like to caption it so that each person is identified - for example, " Cecilia, Marie, and Christina (L to R) ". What I'd LIKE to do ...

I suggest you report the problem to Calico Pie with details of which fonts work and which do not. Done I have updated Knowledge Base > Using Reports to warn about this problem. Thank you, sir! One minor point, to use the Nitro PrimoPDF printer, you need to use Print > PrimoPDF (or similar) rather t...

In published reports, when birth and death date are unavailable, a person is formatted as John Smith ( - ). This request is to add a preference to universally suppress the display of empty date reference "( - )" so that anywhere and everywhere that "John Smith ( - ) " is displayed the preference wou...

Well, I guess the good news is that I wasn't really missing something obvious. The bad news is those are all fairly icky workarounds (but thanks for documenting them!) I'll put in an feature request, but I'm not sure whether to ask for a "Stop putting ( - ) everywhere when there's no dates" or "Allo...

For people with no known birth or death dates, I keep seeing the following in reports: John SMITH ( - ) I just want to suppress the ( - ), so it just shows like: John Smith Under Format > Heading > Record, there seems to be an option to use =LifeDates() or =LifeDates2(), but I can't figure out how t...

Thanks, Jane. So I did some playing around, and here's what I found: Nova PDF Reinstalling the Nova PDF printer didn't help - I still get the garbled lines. However, when I changed my report's font from Adobe Devanagari to Times Roman, that worked. The Nova PDF looked fine. At first I thought it mig...

I generated an "Ancestors By Generation" report. Everything looks fine (see screenshot #1). When I "Save Report As..." a PDF using all default settings, the PDF version has randomly flubbed formatting. It's mostly OK, but some lines have just clearly gone off the rails (see screenshot #2). Screensho...

In the case of the book you need to cite the specific section or page that holds the details for the bride & groom's marriage, otherwise hunting for those details in future years will be more difficult that it needs to be. Where amongst the 7,000 is this marriage?... The problem with ancestry is th...

Are you proposing to use Method 1 'splitter' mode or Method 2 'lumper' mode for such sources? Ummm... huh? :) I'm guessing it's probably "lumper" based on your examples. How do you record Source Citation details for other Marriage records. Well, so far my source source citations for Marriage (and a...

Looking for thoughts on how to best cite ancestry.com sources in the FH sources. For example, on ancestry, there's a marriage fact whose source ancestry cites as "Virginia, Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia, 1649-1800". But when you look at the details for that source, you see that it was a...

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I feel so worldly now...

Excellent. Exactly what I was looking for... thanks!!

Here's a question for those of you on the wrong side of the pond ;) I'm trying to be better about entering full place information. Here in the good old US of A, that usually means "City, County, State, USA". What's the best practice for England? For example, see the 1841 England Census example below...

Helen, Thanks for that link - an interesting read! Good to know I'm not alone in questioning GEDCOM as a DB. GEDCOM was designed as a data transfer format...not as a genealogy database itself. That. GEDCOM files contain data, but that does not make them databases That. ...your main genealogy editor ...

For example, will you be using AS to create the Method 1 Source records and associated Facts and Citations? Yes, that. Then there are two techniques to achieve Point B...Re-capture all your Census records using AS, and Delete the redundant Residence facts. You know, I think I may just go with that....

I just wanted to jump in here and make a comment on this. I am also a database designer and I've never liked the way that GEDCOM forces a lot of this data to be duplicated... Hopefully I'm not blaspheming here, but I've always wondered why FH uses GEDCOM as its data source, due to GEDCOM's many odd...

It sounds as if you would like the Plugin to create a Method 1 Source record with its Text From Source and Media copied & deleted from the principal Citation and perhaps given a Title based on the principal's Name? Are there any other Facts that might Cite those Method 2 source records for US Censu...

Do you have some residence facts that are not related to censuses, so shouldn't be changed?

Well, of course I do! Otherwise it would be too easy

Question 2: I currently have my census data recorded in the Residence fact? Any easy way to change those to Census facts? I haven't looked, but could I just do a "change all" in the GEDCOM file from RESI to CENS (or whatever the fact key is)?