Family Historian User Group

I am a firm believer in recording places as they were known at the time. I then use the Standardized Name and notes in the Place Record to note the details. I adopt this standard for all places, eg Clapham in "London" I would record as in Surrey until 1889, in London until 1975 then in Greater London.

Thank you, that explains why. I think I will put <1 month in the Age Attribute and record three weeks in the Note field.

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In quite a few census entries ages for new borns are sometimes given in weeks, the age attribute allows years, months and days - is it possible to record in weeks in the Age Attribut e other than in the Note field? I realise three weeks could be entered as either <1 month or c21 days but a weeks opt...

I have been using FH for over a year now since migrating from TMG and never experienced a crash until recently. Now I seem to get a crash two or three times per week (thank goodness for 5 minute auto saves). The attached error message isn't very helpful. No idea why this has started.

Dave, As Mike says, it depends what they are. For articles, screen shots and other things I want to keep for future reference I store them in the persons folder in the Media folder. When it is relatively short text I store the text in the Notes field for the Citation . As I have over 25,000 people i...

For a BMD event I record the place as XXXX "Registration District", ..... I believe the advice is to have the Registration District in quotes so it gets ignored by mapping software. Example below. If I have more detail about the place that takes priority, the BMD place then becomes a secondary citat...

I think the reason for the colour change has just become obvious, the search screen now separates Civil and Parish Records. Untitled.jpg My first thought is that this is detrimental, previously you got Civil and Parish returned on searches for births etc, presumably we will have to do this twice now...

I have both simply because they have different records (such as 1939 census on FMP) and also when transcriptions are in error on common records, the other one is probably correct. I also believe in cross checking data, so I often look at both for the same thing. As a matter of observation don't just...

Indeed. But use of the Living Flag to suppress publishing anything other than names and relationships means I am respecting people's sensitivities. If others want to seek out details from public domain information, as we all do, that is their privilege.

Jane,

Thank you, I have already made good use of [[ ]] to keep a few things hidden.

Jim, Thank you. I wasn't so much concerned about security as I think I have that very well covered by use of the Living Flag which I am currently just checking off. It was more to exclude Facts such as To Do which are my personal notes and the Note Facts where some observations are recorded which ar...

Mike,

Thank you, creating an exclude list in Step 3 of the Wizard did the trick. Like all these things, simple once you know how.

I am beginning the journey of creating a web site of our information. From what I have read it looks like it is not possible to make a Fact private. I know encasing text inside double quotes makes that text private, but the Fact still appears, see this example for a To Do Fact Untitled3.jpg Ideally ...

Mike,

Thank you, that did the trick. I thought I might just missing a step.

David

Thank you very much for your replies. I agree this is a 'one off' plugin so doesn't need to be topped and tailed. I have had a day of learning LuA (never used it before) and have got what I need working other than writing a date to the Entry Date field. I cannot be creating the Entry Date field as p...

I am in the process of tidying up historical data entry errors. When our records began we were not as diligent with citations as we should have been, and I am hoping to automate some updating as manually it would take a long time. An example is, for a specified source "Email 14/5/2003" was entered i...

Just to add to this I too have created a Bankruptcy fact but my sentence is a bit different, <para>{individual} appeared <at the {_place}> {date} {note} and I include what ever happened in the note field, I also have a Bankruptcy Sale fact with sentence Following bankruptcy a sale took place {date} ...

Mike,

Thank you, worked perfectly. With out some help the route needed to achieve something like this as a bit difficult to fathom out on your own.

Many thanks

I believe this a known problem and has already been recorded as an issue. I too have this frustration. A trick is to always leave one Hint as New then you can still get to see what you have Accepted or Rejected. Not perfect but it is a work around.

I just noticed this and am probably a bit late. But for what it is worth I migrated from TMG nearly a year ago and thought I would miss Sort Dates . However, I haven't, primarily because each Fact has a Time Frame , for example Burial being post death, so it always appears after death even if there ...

Mike,

I knew I must be missing something fairly obvious. Un-ticking Fork Style for ancestors did the trick. Also I had reduced to gap to 0.1" to fit onto a page, I have increased that to .2" and I get exactly what I wanted.

Thank you for the very helpful tips.

I have discovered that the dotted line (really dashed rather than dotted) is working but not in the situation I wanted. If I have this Never Married relationship in the middle of the diagram with sufficient vertical separation it can be seen. Untitled3.jpg The question now is how can I show Never/Un...

I cannot seem to find an answer to this little problem, so some guidance would be most helpful. In this example I have set the marriage status to Unmarried Couple (I have also tried Never Married and dotted line still does not appear.) Untitled.jpg However, in the diagrams the connecting line is sti...

Mike,

Thank you for pointing that out. In the property window caption spurious spaces are of no consequence, but in a narrative or report they could be unwanted. Thus, I suspect I might be using CombineText a bit more as I do get a few odd extra spaces in sentences.

For my caption in the property box I use:- %INDI.NAME[1].NPFX% %INDI.NAME:GIVEN_ALL%=CombineText(" '",%INDI.NAME.NICK%,"' "," ")%INDI.NAME:SURNAME% %INDI.NAME[1].NSFX% (=Relationship(FileRoot())) [=RecordId()] This will give for example Dr. John Robert 'Jack' Bloggs JP CChem MRSC (grandfather) [3] W...