Family Historian User Group

Mark1834 wrote: ↑

30 Oct 2022 09:30

Probably hidden in plain sight somewhere...

If it is, I can't find it either!

http://wiki.rootsmagic.com/wiki/RootsMagic_8:Update_History wrote:8.2.6 - 28 OCT 2022

• Fixed: Some living people were marked as deceased when uploading to Ancestry

But from a quick look it will only apply to individuals who have changes, no correction to all the others wrongly uploaded to Ancestry as deceased.

Having (1) been given a gedcom with some data I wish to merge in to my tree where the capitalisation is best technically described as "a dogs breakfast" and (2) wanting to set about learning plugin coding, I've created my own plugin to report on questionable name capitalisation. Taking things slowly...

Thanks for the pointer - I've got rid of all the Given and Surname.

Are there any other common redundant subfields that crop up in imported GEDCOM files?

I've just noticed this when importing a GEDCOM from Ancestry and realised I have a lot of records with name parts.

I hate inconsistency - is there a quick way (plugin?) to clean these up?

I've just done what I think is requested by making use of pool numbers. I wanted a tree that contained just my fathers side of my family. Steps: Copy the project and then in the copied project... Delete my mother's parents Delete my wife's parents. Run a simple query to list all individuals with a c...

One odd thing that I have noticed however is that if I make a change directly in RM, the value stored in UTCModDate in PersonTable can be either an integer or a float! I've changed five individuals either yesterday or today, and three have integer only values stored, while two use the full float va...

I've had a response from RM Support: Yes, this issue happened in our last update. It will be resolved in our next update but I cannot tell when that will be released. What you could do is create a group of everyone Living in RM and then in TreeShare if you have nothing to add to them click on Show o...

It's certainly the case that the Living flag does not seem to be included in the RM TreeShare record comparison. Records are shown as equivalent if that is the only difference, so there is no way to force an update. That's a defect in RM/ANC that we can't do anything about. I'm tending towards thin...

Could I suggest this code modification which would mean it works correctly for both RM7 and RM8. -- get today's date and convert to RM format (days since 31 Dec 1899) local today = os.time()//86400 + 25569 local todaytime = os.time()/86400 + 25569 local S = fhLoadTextFile(DataFile) for UID in S:gmat...

Good spot on the code, thanks, but it's actually deliberate. The plugin was developed originally for RM7, which only stores the date a record was last updated, not the time as well, so needs an integer value. RM8 stores the time, but as far as I can see, still only reports the date in the UI, so I'...

What's puzzling is that if in RootsMagic you edit a person and change only the living status, then run TreeShare it shows the person as being changed, but there is no arrow to make the changes and all you can do is use the X to Mark as "not changed" . I'm waiting for approval to join both the RootsM...

Living/Deceased status on both Ancestry and RM can be a bit erratic, as they seem to make up the rules as they go along! I'm having major issues with this! I created a new test database in RootsMagic with just a couple of individuals, both with the Living flag set. I then used Tree Share to create ...

Thanks Mark, it does explain what I am seeing. My problem was that as until now I had no need to use the living flag (the 100 year rule was sufficient for my purposes), none of my individuals had the Living flag set. I've now found Flag Living and used that so will have a go at a new sync. There's n...

I'm having an issue with a tree I've uploaded to Ancestry using the Family Historian - RootsMagic - Ancestry Sync plugin. Everybody in the uploaded tree is shown as being deceased which means that everyone would be visible if I made the tree public on Ancestry. The Ancestry support site says If no d...

I will be using the {OTHER} suggestion. Having decided to do that, the fact that that box is immediately below Ref ID will be sufficient reminder. I'm also making a similar changes to the other templates (using =IF[{OTHER}%No. {OTHER}%] so that the label only appears when a number is entered on some).

I do enter the number after auto text has done it's work - when I remember! That's the point of my request, having a text box would be a reminder. It's also annoying if after entering the number in the source text, you realise something else is missing or wrong as by then the auto is off so you may ...

When creating a marriage using the Parish Registers 1837- (England/Wales) auto text there is a place for the number (Marriage No: in the plain text & first column in the rich text table) but there doesn't seem to be a place to enter this number on any of the data entry tabs. Is this something that c...

When using the Gravestone/Memorial/Monumental Inscription template, what is the date field intended to be? I'm about to create a source for a gravestone where I've obtained the image and inscription from Find A Grave which has the death dates for seven individuals. Also, would you set the repository...

The Row Filter in this query is over-complicated. The single filter expression Exclude unless =Relationship(["Starting Person"],,TEXT,1) matches 'Cousin' is all that is needed, and can be easily adapted for any other relationship. A lot simpler, but ... It doesn't find half cousins whereas the orig...

I never use the Select File button. I open my downloads folder in Windows Explorer and drag and drop the image file in to the panel on the left of the AS Image Viewer. That's always instantaneous.

Is there a way to refer to the current focus individual in a query? If there was that would make this query much more user friendly.

Magic! Thankyou

I'm getting this error when I try to export using the FindMyPast destination: [string "C:\ProgramData\Calico Pie\Family Historian\Pl..."]:757: directory parameter is missing or empty stack traceback: [C]: in function 'assert' [string "C:\ProgramData\Calico Pie\Family Historian\Pl..."]:757: in field ...

Would being able to just key " or CTRL+' (as in Excel) to copy the entry from the row above be a viable option?