Family Historian User Group

Am I ready to write plug ins? So I'll relate this to my RV. I don't mind making minor changes to enhance the enjoyment of its use, but installing a new engine because the current one will not take me to certain places... no. I love a challenge but my main goal here is to get this data into a data fi...

From Mike Tate... Yes, it is odd that Alternate Names/Titles do not support entering accented characters by the FH methods. You can use the Windows Character Map dialogue. Perhaps you could start creating an Alternate Name/Title and then use Make Primary, enter the accents in the Primary Name, and u...

I think the best solution would be to have the software add the alternates once entered, and copy them until the user un selects it. A check box in the Names and Titles window that Allow alternates to be copied to children? Check for yes, uncheck for no. Automatic like the software copies the Surnam...

Going back to the original post on plug ins...

Having the alternate names in a note field defeats the purpose unless when I try to filter my individuals it uses the note field as it currently does the alternate names.

MLF

So to Mike Tate's comment... I am not sure that everyone would want all Alternate Surnames to propagate to the children unconditionally. My original comment was... There could be a checkbox to allow or disallow carrying it on as one wished. To Lorna's comment on the frequency of use. It depends on t...

If a name variation would apply to a person, why would it not apply to all of his children, grandchildren Etc. as well? There could be a checkbox to allow or disallow carrying it on as one wished. Vogel, Voegel Freyder, Freider, Freyther, Freither These are all variants of the same name and used bas...

This all a result of using Family Tree Maker since the 1990s. Everytime one imports data off Ancestry it reeks avec. I stopped doing it years ago, and the results here are from FTM quite some time ago. I found the issue and removed the data, it was all in there multiple times so nothing was lost. Al...

you are correct...

example

Why do I see this option under the query selection box for individual events, and others here and there. Can I edit these to my own liking? Sorry if I am being lazy, but I did a search here for Christy and thought for sure I would find an answer, but zero results for the search.

thx Mike

So this text selection works well for the individual editing box, how about the names and titles edit box? That is where I need larger text.

suggestions?

That works well, but I was thinking of making the text LARGER! 65 with onset of MD, that is why the 40" monitor!!! Great help, much appreciated.
I think I will size depending on what my operation is at the time.
Stay safe!
Mike

Thanks Mike, I voted and agree with your comments, and thanks for taking the time to fully reply. Currently while doing research I have the web open, reading microfilms, FH open with the records list showing, and the individual window floating to enter the data, with sources showing. I have dual mon...

sorry if I made it sound more complicated than it needed to be. I tried all the other "note" but missed that one.

Thx Lorna that did the trick!!!

Thanks all It is an individual query. There are sources attached to birth, death, and marriage dates that I would like the query to display. As i enter data from a birth, I record the date, and source that date. putting the page # in the "where within source" would not work for me, I need to be able...

is there a setting to make the "where within source" window word wrap to a second text line are larger? my text are too large for the default window size and scrolling is a pain.

Ver 6

Mike Freyder

My Sources widow is unchanged from the default, and I used the "Note" field at the bottom to show what page of a microfilm a record is located on. I'm 3900 records into this data, and I would like to run a query to show the people with the source data and include the page of the film I found the rec...

Hi Mike Tate Time to discuss this again? Another issue with this alternate name issue is do we populate it automatically to the children of the person? Since my last name has variations, when my children are entered into the data base, does the same last name variations apply to them? I think they d...

I have reported this as an issue and they have been able to duplicate the problem and said they will address it. From support... "OK we have now confirmed that it is a problem. Thank you for reporting this. We have logged it for further investigation. Meanwhile, I suggest you add accent characters i...

Apologize for not answering Mike's question on reporting to Calico Pie, I have been busy with other yard clean up issues while the weather is good! I will do it now. My issue is that once in the Names and Titles dialog box entering a alternate name, holding down the "a" key no longer brings up the s...

Good question, "Search only looks only in Primary Names or also in all Alternate Names?" I guess if one had already entered an alternate of Sattel for Settel, then adding a duplicate alternate name wouldn't matter? Yes I came familiar with soundex a long time ago using it to find census or passenger...

I see your point but it is one the main frame computer has to decide on. our brains. I'm doing research as well as indexing villages. I'm entering in 10s of 1000s names from villages and know what is a variation, or if I'm wrong, not. To complicate things even further the software could have a "reme...

If I am looking for someone in my database, I don't recall how I listed their name. Was it Freyder? Freither? Vreyder? Currently typing in Fre brings all the variations but what if it was Vre? I have to do multiple lookups to make sure I have not forgotten or missed someone. If I know all the variat...