Family Historian User Group

(FILE~REL) Multimedia via Relative Link Records has to be relative to xxx.fh_data to be compatible with FH . What about a check box (off by default) that was only applicable to the FILE~REL option to remove the Media\ from the start of the name (but still worked with Keep Media folders )? I could l...

Mike, browsing around I've just found the file ASProjectOptions.xml in which I found several entries looking like this: <Key Name="01"> <Value Name="CopyToImagePath" Value="media" /> <Value Name="CopyToImagePath" Value="media" Computer="ELVIN11" /> <Value Name="ImagePath" Value="C:\temp" /> <Value N...

Thanks for the quick response. This is my directory structure: FH directory structure.png (FILE~REL) Multimedia via Relative Link Records is outputting relative to xxx.fh_data , not relative to xxx.fh_data\Media which would resolve the issue. Here's an extract from the exported Gedcom showing someth...

I'm using the default media directory (xxx.fh_data\Media) for all media - as is normal on Windows the M of Media is upper case. If I add media using FH, the file name in the media sources window is Media\mediafilename with an upper case M. However media added using AS when I say use the destination ...

If you click on the Re: xxxxx for any of the replies the post number is appended to the URL which allows you to save a link to a particular reply. E.g. jimlad68's tip about the *:

https://www.fhug.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=14788#p77069

Could you not print the web page to a PDF?

I have a feeling that my father might have remained in education past 14 so there is a possibility that he stayed around Dagenham for a while. I know at some stage he was in the RAF working on radios (very suitable for a person who was significantly colour blind!) and spent some time in Iceland. I'm...

I'm having trouble finding my father in the 1939 register. He was born in 1924 (died in 2013). I've found his father alone in the family house in Dagenham so the rest of the family would probably have been evacuated. I've found what I suspect is his mother in Ipswich (shown as evacuee) along with on...

@jelv, the https://wiki.webtrees.net/en/Main_Page refers to https://wiki.webtrees.net/w/images-en/Ged551-5.pdf . That is the GEDCOM Standard Draft Release 5.5.1 dated 2 October 1999 and has been superseded by a full release dated 15 November 2019 , see fhugdownloads:contents:gedcom_standard_release...

I've been investigating https://webtrees.net/ which is free. You need a webserver with with PHP and MySQL. For some reason some aspects of it are slow on my server but the demo sites are OK - still investigating. I really like the interface. Demo: https://dev.webtrees.net/demo-stable/index.php?route...

1 my records window is only partly customised eg I have a field on the main tab for whether or not probate has been checked. Field name is there, but a tick box isn't. If that field is based on a flag, the flag won't exist if there are no records with that flag set. Once you have an individual with...

Thanks. 1911 is odd - and also odd in the way the search works on FindMyPast. To uniquely identify a household you only need the piece and schedule number but in the FMP advanced search there is no option to enter the schedule number - but the parameters in the URL accept it. So your example of piec...

Do you have a list of all the maximum lengths of the varying parts for each census?

I'd actually go for slashes and leading zeroes.

I'd been wondering about how to see the accepted matches as well. When all matches have been accepted or rejected for an individual there's nothing to click. If I change the setting to accepted, yes it works for the individuals with accepted matches, but there's then no link to click for people with...

OK - there is a way to do it iteratively but it's going to end up with a horrendous expression for the 1841 census which has four parts. The second part for 1881 can be extracted using =TextToNumber(GetLabelledText(%INDI.CENS[year=1881].SOUR>PUBL%,Text("RG11/" . TextToNumber(GetLabelledText(%INDI.CE...

Using Ancestral Sources I'm entering the reference ID as something like RG11/1234/56/7. I have a query that lists all the individuals in a particular census and would like to sort it in to correct reference order. The problem is that each of the parts of the reference number (for 1881 Piece, Folio a...

Can the emails sent out notifying replies be customised? I can't remember what is in it, I think it has an unsubscribe from the topic, but a wonder if a link to https://www.fhug.org.uk/forum/ucp.php?i=ucp_prefs&mode=post could be added with text explaining. If so it might be safe to change the defau...

I've been using Google maps a lot to see how far it is between differently named places for just that reason. A lot of my family are from very small villages in North Norfolk.

Cracked it!

Needed an extra search and replace of ,$ by {tab}|

It's very nearly worked. It didn't need running twice to find adjacent commas. Edit: some records (including the first few I checked) didn't need it and some did - slight white space differences in the way blank fields were done. The minor hiccup is that if the last line ends with a comma it is not ...

I have reservations about changing the functionality of the Where Born column, especially if using the Add options for new individuals. Adding an extra column an extra generic column has it's merits. I'd only need to fill that in if the data in the census is different to the data already held in FH....

Another related query:

I'd not spotted the option to use different separators in the auto text so all of my 60+ census sources are comma delimited. Is there a quick was to change these to tab delimited to make them more readable?

Thanks Mike and Brent The information recorded on Census records is almost always a mixture of fact & fiction. The names, ages, places, etc, are only as good as what each person told the enumerator. So those details often change from decade to decade as their memory fades. I'd found that pretty quic...

If the where born is not used to update/add to the birth event because that information is already known (from birth record or another census), does it get stored anywhere other than in the text? The issue I'm having is that some of the people I'm investigating have given different locations for the...

Or even "%CUR_FILE_HEADER.FILE%" which does not require you to add anything in the header record? Looks a bit messy - but presumably there is a way to extract just the file name rather than the whole path? That was my first attempt. The path name for my files is far too long for that and it was exc...