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Are you wanting links to the individual or family within FH or hyperlinks to a web page? In my note for the DNAMatch I have: Shared Ancestor: Shared Couple: where I enter the individual's id no. or the family no. The columns in my query are: =Record(TextToNumber(GetLabelledText(%FACT.NOTE2%,"Shared ...

I sincerely hope you don't use that PC for on-line banking!

tatewise wrote: ↑

12 Mar 2023 14:07

FYI: The next version of my Show Project Statistics plugin will report duplicated BMD events for Birth, Baptism, Christening, Marriage, Divorce, Death, Burial & Cremation.

Excellent!

I was surprised and baffled - it's a one off and sorted so not worried.

Out of curiousity, when adding a census would AS spot/warn that there were multiple births?

If there were already two I'd have expected AS to add the citations to the first both times.

The first of those just found me a duplicate birth event I didn't know about. The puzzle is that the citations show that both were created by Ancestral Sources.

Easy to fix by Copy/Paste the citation from one birth to the other and delete the redundant birth.

Mark, more on Living. I'm just working through a big update. In the Update Guide research note, if death is being added or amended it is not necessary to say the Living Flag needs looking at. Omitting that from the list of changes in this case would make it clearer when it does need to be addressed ...

Clipping means to cut a portion out of something to use elsewhere. I was really mystified as to what it was about and wondered what happened or could be done with the clipped text.

Either cropping or truncation work for me, but definitely not clipping.

Issue: When displaying the occupation the best option is %INDI.OCCU[preferred]% . The data reference for the occupation on the main tab of the property box uses this (without the %). The problem is that if no occupation has been flagged as preferred it defaults to the first, and frequently this will...

Been thinking about the actual proposal some more. I can see why most of the time you'd want nulls to the end, but there are times when you'd want them to the top to highlight missing data that needs investigating. Always sorting to the end irrespective of ascending or descending would defeat that. ...

For records and user queries you can always do something like I posted here: https://www.fhug.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?p=134468#p134468 So I think it's only predefined Queries and plugin results (which could be modified anyway) where there isn't a way round it. Given how many higher priority wish ...

Given that in records lists and queries a sort column can be defined that does this, I'm not sure this would be worth their effort.

If you only had it on one of the home PCs, would remote desktop from the other two be a way round the restriction? You'd only be able to use one of the three at a time and the one with the install would need to be up all the time.

Some information about the database changes here: https://sqlitetoolsforrootsmagic.com/

Just come across a minor issue. I'm adding a new household to the 1939 Register where I already have the image as I have recorded another household on the same page. I'm therefore using Link existing image already in the file to add the image to the new source. With the option Only show images with ...

ColeValleyGirl wrote: ↑

25 Feb 2023 14:55

2. The column definitions for your Source Records link.

Will there be one? I thought the first column was automatic.

Also, could you click on the + beside one of the sources so we can see all the fields?

Are you a splitter or lumper for your census sources? I'm a splitter. For my census records I have one source for each household, the name of the source includes the head of households name and the schedule number. That is then linked to one or more media records (household across pages or 1911/1921...

To add to Mark's advice, in the property box for Mabel, you should see Eldon twice. I've shown how it appears for Mark's example. If they appear in the wrong order in the focus window you can change the order using the arrows I've indicated.

Going back to the original enquiry, adding a custom column to the individual records window with the expression =TextIf(Exists(%INDI.NAME%),%INDI.NAME:SURNAME_FIRST%,"ZZZ") would give a column that can be sorted to put the unknowns to the bottom. Using my method of putting the surname in [ ], this e...

Blank is fine in the focus window and diagrams where you can see the context in which the individual exists. But I find blank hopeless in lists like the records window, query and plugin result lists. Having the name in brackets makes it clear it's not their actual name, but does give an indication o...

Where I have a wife and I don't know the maiden name I also use the husbands name in square brackets.

If I know the maiden name but not the first name (e.g. I've found the mother's surname from a child's birth registration in the GRO index) I use [x].

To absolutely confirm you could create a new FH project with only a single individual that won't match anyone in the RM database with minimal facts and try the problem RM database against that.

Have you tried running any of the RM repair routines?

Would the RM version be relevant?

That's because the latest version is in the plugin store: https://pluginstore.family-historian.co ... ronization

Insert image is used to insert an image that already exists somewhere on the internet - you enter it's URL between the tags.

You need to attach the photo. Click ATTACHMENTS below where you compose the message and ADD FILES.