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As Mike says, the best you can do is take a screenshot and insert the image in your notes. That's what I have done when wanting to illustrate census info for an ancestor/collateral in a blog post. FH screens translate beautifully to screenshots - I use them all the time in my work. Teresa <SNIP> If ...

Yes, please - most of that explanation left me flummoxed. Thanks :) Clearly, as I said, we need to work harder to make this stuff less confusing. But if you look at the example in the help ("Edit Text Scheme Item Dialog" page), where it explains the default conditions, when you add an item of data a...

Words to live by indeed - I have been experimenting and have redone my work several times as I've learned more about the program. My database isn't pretty, I'll grant you, but at least the info is there. I won't live long enough to make it perfect, that much is for sure!! Teresa <SNIP> I think it is...

Indeed they are a PITA...I have learned while gather citation information from all the major database sites to note the original repository and check ITS catalogue to make sure I have the details correct. There are errors at FMP, Ancestry, FS etc... And FMP is particularly bad about not including an...

Thanks for reporting these issues and updating us here! While issues like this can be amended manually, it's nice to have a report generate properly. Just a quick update- The narrative report font issue has been identified as a bug and will be fixed in a later release. The issue with tabs will be fi...

While the internal update from FH worked for me, I don't find that folder in my Downloads folder. Just to be safe, I will follow your advice and download the update directly from the website to store against future disasters... Teresa What I tend to do, is go to their website and download the latest...

I just tried it, Mark - looks great, though does rather create some work...Add that project to my to-do list :lol: Thanks for this valuable tool ... Teresa Thanks Randy. That was a good prompt to upload the Check Sort Dates plugin , which is now available in the Plugin Store. It does a more comprehe...

I'm assuming this is in the United States?

Teresa

rcpettit wrote: ↑

31 Aug 2022 13:48

I think that may be the correct way to do it by just posting the image to the discharged event. The Honorable Discharge is usually issued 4 years after discharge date at least for the Navy. You get it at discharge if retired.

- Many have mentioned the cost of scanning etc, why should it be any more than previous censuses, or the USA censuses, are we just being more "archival" aware, were they in a very bad state, other than the time element how could the Census act add to the cost. As others have said, it seems the stri...

Have you any idea how much FMP spent on the conservation work alone, not to mention the digitizing? Have you ever done that kind of work? Well, I have, so please be aware that it it cost a LOT of money and I'm glad they paid the archival experts the money they deserved to do the work. Scanning on th...

Great tip - definitely going to try it. Thanks for sharing :) Teresa I am indebted to Martin Briscoe of various Mailing Lists for this information. Anyone who's ever tried to locate a regiment of the British Army in some arbitrary year should be grateful to know that various newspapers ran a feature...

Well, that's cool! Thanks for the tip!! Teresa :) (who immediately opened FH and tried it out)... If you actually meant you wanted to see the Raw text with the control fields in plain text you can do so. Press-and-hold both the Ctrl and Alt key and then double-click on a Rich Text field in the Prope...

When I have used GRO certs in blog posts, I've included a copyright statement. As I understand the statement below, I'm in compliance. In general, I've see that if something under copyright isn't to be republished without express permission, that information also appears in the copyright statement. ...

<SNIP> Over the past 11-12 years, I have spent enormous amounts of time trying to covert my entire RootsMagic database to use Simple Citations. However, it wasn’t until I started using FH7, in January of this year, that I was able to complete that project - I immediately fell in love with FH7, for ...

Thanks, Jeff - I get it now. Overall I can see now that at least for the "non-traditional" sources, your template won't work as is, though I could edit it to do so, which, of course, defeats the "simple" aspect! OTOH, for the traditional sources it's perfect - I used it just the other day to cite pa...

Thanks, Mike - now I get it... And yes, you're correct - there's really no way to map what I do into the SC template, at least not for what Jeff terms "non-traditional" sources. Teresa :) Teresa, I don't know if this will help, but this is my interpretation/explanation for Jeff's two fields. Reposit...

Sorry, Jeff, don't mean to sound thick, but it's not clear to me, especially as you're using US examples and the majority of my records are English/Scottish/Irish/Polish/Canadian. For example, I cite a LOT of baptism records (parish records and bishop's transcripts) and always include the original r...

2. A page on Using the New Family Historian 7 Templates that explains how the new templates differ (slightly) from the ones that were created for RootsMagic. I hope that the templates work well for you. My entire database has finally been converted to using them and it has made my own life a lot ea...

tatewise wrote: ↑

07 Aug 2022 21:20

Deirdre, could you possibly let us know how you did that for the benefit of other users who might need to do the same?
Don't keep the secret to yourself!

Indeed - enquiring minds want to know!!

Teresa

Thanks, Helen - yes, in this specific case, the error message could be customized and is far more helpful to those of us who aren't programmers or super-users. Teresa I don't think that's the case here, Mike L. The error message says: Citation field code not valid in this context. FH clearly know th...

It would be nice if that was the error message generated, rather than one that just says (and I'm paraphrasing) "you're doing something wrong, but we won't tell you what". So many software packages do this, leaving the user to figure it out for themselves, or, in this case, ask for help on this foru...

I fully support your well thought out presentation, as a user of Research Tracking in another program for many years I find the present FH implimentation disappointing and lacking. I concur. FH is superior in most ways to RM, but in this, it's definitely lacking. I like all your suggestions, Helen....

Cool tip - that's one Windows shortcut I didn't know. Thanks

Teresa

tatewise wrote: ↑

21 Jul 2022 13:38

Try Ctrl-0 (that's zero) to reset to the default of zero zoom.

Thanks, Mike! You and Lorna have me sorted now :) Teresa Look at the existing Available Item called Living & Private for the Living Record Flag and Private Record Flag. The Item Name: describes the two flags on the row (although the two items don't both have to be flags). The Label: names mimic the ...

Thanks for the clarification, Lorna...I kinda figured, but am still far from being a super-user of FH...baby steps! Teresa I would just call the item 'Twin', or perhaps 'Twin flag'. The important one is the Label, as that appears in the Property box. If you look at other items which can be displayed...