Family Historian User Group

I will admit I am new to FH and as a committed user of TMG I am having some trouble wrapping my mind around the fact tab for an individual. After importing my data from TMG (~ 100K people) I notice that the Fact Tab displays numerous facts that are not directly related to the person that has the foc...

I have been trying to use this plugin but each time I try to filter the records, FH just crashes (not just once but each time I try the plugin). Not sure what is happening or what, if anything, I am doing wrong. Any suggestions on where to start would be helpful. Crashes the moment I click on "Sort ...

My perspective on the Drouin discussion is that there are three items that need to be defined - repository, source, citation. Because Gabriel Drouin actually photographed the church/court records and later digitized them, they are a repository the others are the Greffe's (courts) and the individual ...

As a matter of interest, can you modify the sentence structure of the source/citation output as used in reports?

Adrian, Thanks for your response. Mr. Gabriel Drouin of the now Drouin Institute actually is the source of the records, Ancestry uses them under license. Mr Drouin went to every church and court house and filmed all of the registers. One copy of actual archived records are held by the province and t...

I started this thread two years ago and after finding that there was no immediate solution to the issue I abandoned FH and continued using TMG. To put my problem in context, I have approximately 100K people in my project and at least 2/3rds of them have the Drouin source and citation that I created ...

I recently imported my TMG database into FH6. In the process it created some new fact types. For example, I now have two fact types for burial with the default being the one that was imported. I modified the standard fact type to produce the sentence structure that I want. Is there a means of popula...

The Drouin Collection is the goto source for French Canadian church records in North America. As a new user of FH (I used TMG for 30 years) I am having trouble with the rather imprecise method of recording sources and citations in FH. Elizabeth Shown Mill would be twirling in her grave if she saw th...

Thanks Mike for that very thorough explanation. As a recent TMG user I have high expectations for a TMG replacement program. Initially I though FH might be that replacement but there are some shortfalls, citations being one of them, that just don't meet my expectations. So I have decided to revert b...

I have tried to read all of the FH articles I can find on the subject but I will admit that I am having trouble wrapping my head around Automatic Source Citations in FH and the way they are implemented. Just when I think I have it I become ever more confused. Here is the scenario: I have a large col...

Thanks, That answered my question.

Can someone tell me where I can find a list of sentence variables to create the occasional custom sentence in any fact type.

Is there a way to sort the place name on two fields in the Tools>Work with data>Places screen? For example, I want to sort on the country name first then the State, province or equivalent fields to look for anomalies. If this is not possible, then could you add it to a future release.

Thanks for the quick reply Mike. I was primarily a TMG porer user for 20+ years and have been looking for a replacement since it closed its operation. Roots Magic 8 (after trying Legacy, GRAMPS, and others) was about to become my new program until I tried out FH 6 and liked what I saw. RM8 has the a...

Can anyone tell me how to populate the standard place name field in "Places" automagically? Is there some plugin, or other widget that will search the internet based on the place name values and return and populate the standard place name?