Family Historian User Group

Response from CP:

"We have confirmed what you are seeing, when copying the Footnote text in the side panel of the Citation Window.  This will be fixed in the next upgrade."

I very rarely see this kind of almost immediate response from software developers.

Ticket now submitted.

tatewise wrote: ↑

01 Aug 2023 18:23

The problem seems to apply when the text starts plain, is then italics, and finally returns to plain.
Whether the problem affects other combinations of text style is open to experimentation.

The behaviour is unexpected so report it to CP and see what they say.

Is it still worth reporting to CP, given there's a workaround?

tatewise wrote: ↑

01 Aug 2023 15:21

Yes, my experiment was with Genetric Sources which exhibit the same problem.

Interesting observation. I wonder what changed within the last few months. I too would be curious to know if it happens with generic sources. I tested this with a couple of my different citation formats (all based on custom source template definitions) and noticed that it only occurs where there is ...

Ah, light goes on. Thanks, Sarah :) Worked for me in Atlantis as well. Still very odd, given I never had to worry before. Yes - I realize that, however it's then annoying to have to delete that word for 10-20 citations...However, at least I now know it's not just me. I'll report it to CP and see wha...

Thanks for confirming it's not just me. I figured that must be the issue, however, I know it didn't used to happen. I will report it to CP. I can replicate the same problem. Revealing the text formatting in Word shows that it is picking up an erronous Italic format at the beginning of the pasted sec...

Yes - I realize that, however it's then annoying to have to delete that word for 10-20 citations...However, at least I now know it's not just me. I'll report it to CP and see what they say. A workaround is to start the selection at the end of the word Footnote instead of the start of the next line.

I've noticed for the past few months that when copying footnote text from a FH7 source and then pasting it to my word processor (Atlantis), the first line is italicized, even though the italics aren't present in the FH display. However, if I include the Footnote header in the citation area, the ital...

Or just send me an email - gentje1965 AT gmail DOT com, and I can send you the links to my posts mentioning FH and AS. Like you, I had a hard time getting my head around using sources and citations when I first started with FH, but now I use AS and have spent a lot of time with FH, I finally underst...

Rosemary, Nick's follow-up video shows you how to use Ancestral Sources to add a census: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tj9FzTZIng Like you, I had a hard time getting my head around using sources and citations when I first started with FH, but now I use AS and have spent a lot of time with FH, I f...

Thanks for the shout-out, Sarah!

sbell95 wrote: ↑

26 Jul 2023 22:20

And I know Teresa (who posts here sometimes) has a blog about using FH, and she specifically has done what you are doing regarding replacing old Ancestry generated source citations with new ones. Her blog is here - https://writingmypast.wordpress.com/

Like you, I loathe the Ancestry sources/citations (though mine came in via my RootsMagic file that I TreeShared with Ancestry and imported to FH)... Instead of deleting them all, I've been going through and using Ancestral Sources or FH templates to add new sources/citations and THEN deleting the An...

And it's also always possible the clerk at the district registration office made an error...ALL documents contain the possibility of error. And the original handwritten register entries are held by district registration offices. The copies held by GRO are also transcripts, laboriously copied from th...

Agreed, however, IIRC, in his Intro to Ancestral Sources video, Nick demonstrates how "lumpers" can use AS successfully as well.

jelv wrote: ↑

23 Jul 2023 22:48

That's why most of the users of AS are splitters, not lumpers!

That works a treat!!!

BillH wrote: ↑

21 Jul 2023 16:31

Go to Tools > Preferences and select Property Box and then Captions and add this to the first box:

[=Relationship(FileRoot(),,TEXT,1)]

Bill

Really? I've never seen anything downloadable for free at the LMA website...Must explore even more.

victor wrote: ↑

20 Jul 2023 20:29

<SNIP>
In the London area one can try the Metropolitan archives and down load a free copy of the certificate (I have done this a few times)

Victor

Did you not choose the digital image option? That should have given you access right away.

YorkieF wrote: ↑

17 Jul 2023 09:28

Oh dear, well I've tried orderiing that 1877 and one for an Elizabeth Louisa Brown born in 1876 in Poplar, I'll soon find out either way. Fingers crossed.

Thanks for asking this question! I'd noticed the same thing, but then forgot to post here about it. Now I have the solution - just need the time to implement it!! Thank-you for both these helpful replies. It does seem that some of them are duplicates, but Mike's suggestions of sorting by filename an...

Ah, ok, I get it now...I somehow had the impression the info was included somewhere already and just needed to be triggered. RootsMagic has a spin-off program that does this, so that's probably how I interpreted what I was reading. Now I get when you mean...not sure there are enough hours in my day ...

Feeling a bit thick, but I got as far as the bit about creating a Timeline Named List and this stumped me. How do I go about creating the following: "The Query also relies on a Named List of Individual records that are unrelated to the Key Individual. They may be just acquaintances, or significant h...

Can you share a screenshot showing this?

Johnwrosser wrote: ↑

08 Jul 2023 09:39

When adding a death record to AS I've noticed that sometimes, the individual's father and mother are marked with blue so that they can't be used. Is it possible to change this so they can be recorded if necessary please?

Very exciting indeed! Just glad I didn't order any over the last few weeks... GRO have today announced that some British historic birth and death certificates are available, almost instantly as digital images for £2.50 as a jpeg. https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/indexes_search.asp You...

I started doing this recently. Sadly, RootsMagic and TreeShare (RootsMagic) created Residence facts each time I saved an Electoral Roll record against my ancestors... I'm working on a project to consolidate these against a single Residence event. If only I'd known then what I know now *sigh*... <SNI...

Thanks, Nick - I wondered if that would work, but worried about messing something up. Now I know, I'll create the template for Form 1b.

NickWalker wrote: ↑

12 Jun 2023 07:04

Make the 'Year' be something like "1931 (Form 1)", "1931 (Form 1a)", etc.

I need to make a second Census template for 1931 as there was more than one schedule used. However, I can't seem to make that happen. Will AS allow me to create a second 1931 template?

Or am I just note choosing the correct options?

Thanks