Family Historian User Group

Hi All, (Whilst this issue arose from my conversion to FH7, it is not specific to importing.) I have found an issue (bug? undocumented feature?) with Work With Data, Places. All my places and addresses are imported to FH7 as a concatenation of Address and Place into Place in FH7. For example, I have...

Hi Mike, Thanks for the update. I only have 24 Julian dates but as I get multiple messages per person this can produce a large number of errors (I tried a single person Lookup and received 16 warnings for one person and 12 warnings for another example). As I only have 24 Julian dates (and most are o...

Hi All, Tried running the Lookup Missing BDM Records plugin, version 2.6. Received a warning: Lookup Missing BDM warning.png OK, I thought, better get out of this plugin and see why I'm getting this warning/error. Clicking on the x or OK just continues onto the same warning for a different date. The...

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28 Nov 2022 11:33

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28 Nov 2022 11:27

I think an appropriate Data Entry Assistant in FH could do much the same.

It will do when I finish writing it!

Hi Helen. If you mean DEAs for Australia, then I'm happy to test or provide examples of certificates, if needed.

Glenn

A possible solution to the data that needs to appear in two places (i.e. Individual Fact Fields and Source Template Fields) is to use Ancestral Sources, which captures such data once and uses templates & codes to save it in multiple fields in FH. I think an appropriate Data Entry Assistant in FH co...

Remember, the fields in the Source Template are there to help you and others relocate/locate the same source or a copy of it -- the fields are identifying the Source not the facts you've derived from it. And in reports, you can't easily go from the source to (say) the individual. So, when you were ...

Hi All, I have a couple of questions on data fields on sources which you may be able to help me with. Using a Birth Certificate as an example: Principal, Location and Address Fields. A lot of the time the Principal, Location and Address will be from the person in the Property Box. Is there any way t...

Hi All, As many of you know, I am moving from Relatively Yours 3 (RY3) to Family Historian 7 (FH7). With considerable assistance from the User Group members and the Knowledge Base, I have (mostly) completed this. During my work I have created copious notes (and created a Query) detailing the issues ...

Most GEDCOMs I've seen have a HEAD tag at the start of the file with details on the source of the data. It usually shows the software that produced it, along with the version number and date extracted. Here's an example: 0 HEAD 1 SOUR Reunion 2 VERS V8.0 2 CORP Leister Productions 1 DEST Reunion 1 D...

I, too, am a fan of FTAnalyzer, although I've not used it a lot. I find it useful for finding things like person married after they died, or children born before birth of parent. It can tell you much more, too.
Glenn

Hi Mike, I've just found an issue with this plugin. Steps to recreate: 1 Run plugin 2 Select the Pick records option to open the Pick window 3 Change your mind and close the plugin window before closing the Pick window 4 Close the Pick window 5 FH "freezes" and no options of any kind can be selected...

Thanks Mike. It's nice to know that you're human and not an FH bot!

Glenn

Hi Mike, I was testing your new version of the Change Any Fact plugin (so I could update my conversion notes) and I discovered an issue that I suspect is applicable to all plugins and not just Change Any Facts (and may very well be a known issue). If you run the plugin and select Change all the rest...

In case you don't know, it's possible to hide individual boxes or whole branches in diagrams. Right click on a box in the diagram and choose Hide. Any branch attached to that box will also be hidden. You can then save the diagram as a Family Historian Chart, which can be opened using Charts > Saved...

... you can also limit what is displayed (for example, if you are showing your screen to another person). ... I'm thinking that it would be possible to create specific reports or charts that take account of flags like the ones Mike mentions. But so far as I can remember, or see in a quick check, th...

Oh, some more things I don't know much about! Thanks for the suggestions. Time to do some more reading.

Thanks Mike.

Hi all. Still testing my move from Relatively Yours 3 to FH7. RY3 has a number of "sensitivity" checkboxes such as Person is of a Sensitive Nature, Parent-Child Relationship is of a Sensitive Nature, Event (Fact) is of a Sensitive Nature, Portfolio (Media) Objects, even down to individual event desc...

I forgot to add a big thanks to davidf for his explanation about the GEDCOM format. Most of it I knew but the FAMx records confused me. I didn't quite understand the difference between FAMC and FAMS but now I know. I guess it's kind of obvious - most people are a member of two families, one as a spo...

Wow. Who would have thought that my questions would provoke such a response! Thank you all for your posts. They are helpful. One thing this indicates, to me at least, is that CPs work on Research Notes is a little underwhelming. I wanted to make some clarifications about my understandings on Notes. ...

Thanks Sarah. I had read the Knowledgebase article. I'll now go and read the threads you linked to. I currently keep some of my research in OneNote and I have tested linking from FH to OneNote, and it works reasonibly well. Just need to work out if I can link from OneNote back to specific record in ...

Hi All, I trying to understand Research Notes, and Notes in general. I not talking about the notes that can be added to a fact. I understand those. Firstly, I know I can: add a note for an Individual only - something related to only that person. Seems to also be known as a Local Note. add a Shared N...

Thanks Mike.

Hi Mike, Thanks for the response. May I make sure I understand the difference to Media Records and LMOs? LMOs link directly to a file, leaving the file in its original location. If I want to add that same file to another person/family, I create another LMO. A Media Record allows a file to be attache...

Hi All, I'm getting down to the last issues with migrating from RY3 to FH7 and have an issue with media files. The Media records are created correctly in FH7 for all media. That's a good start! RY3 allows you to attach media to an Event. For example, an image of a birth certificate against the birth...

Thanks Mike. Maybe you need to cut back on eating and sleeping and devote more time to the Knowledgebase.
Or maybe we can clone you?

Glenn