Family Historian User Group

RM to FH convert just discovering this challenge. I definitely have multiple media records for a single file, when it should be multiple links to the one file. I guess I'm lucky in that the media itself isn't duplicated since I don't store my media in the FH folder. This seems like a very strange we...

That's what I see in my file as well - one jpg file that I have attached to an event and the source is two "media records" both referencing the same file. I'm wondering how we would then figure out what that media thing is linked to, or even why everything shows 1 link as if there could be multiples...

Glad you found the info you need. This knowledge base and user group is truly amazing, isn't it? I made the decision to be 100% free-form with my sources in my desktop genealogy program, owing to the severe limitations of GEDCOM, so am unable to be of any assistance with that, but it does seem like ...

It's REALLY easy to continue using your existing media structure, that's what I do. The RM7 GEDCOM export will contain links to all of your media files. When you create a new FH project, DE-SELECT the option to move/copy the media files. That's it. That's all you have to do. Your media stays where i...

BEAUTIFUL!
Fresh export from RM, new project, Find Date Phrases finds 299 items. Run the new version of Fix Date Fields and the 299 items it fixed were fixed perfectly!
Thank you so much!

Just did a quick check - RM8 does still use the en dash for from/to dates. I wonder if other packages might use an em dash just to be weird - perhaps the plugin should handle both of those possibilities. Given all of the modifiers that RM allows, and other packages may have even more it gets out of ...

As far as hyphen vs. en dash, I'm not sure if that's the way RM always does it, this is the first time I've looked at GEDCOM closely enough to figure out what the heck is going on. I'm using v7, will test it out with RM v8 later today, on the off chance they're changing things. Interesting that when...

Just tried the update, the "until" and "say" dates work great, thanks! I will probably customize it so that "say" becomes "est" rather than "circa" but that's more of a preference for my usage, no big deal, and I've now figured out how to make that change. I have noticed small issue with the double ...

Have just found this plugin while trying to find a way to overcome the differences between RootsMagic and FH on date modifiers and qualifiers. I have a lot of dates that are <date>-<date> , 1917-1918 with just a single dash, no spaces, and they need to be converted to From <date> to <date> From 1917...

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11 Feb 2021 21:11

is it possible to express the FSFT as a web url?

Yes it is. And eventually I'll get all that done, just as I've done with links to the photo galleries I have on my personal website.

I very much want Ancestry and Family Search to be added to the "Internet Data Matches" list of sites. Find My Past and MyHeritage are available now. When the feature was released, CP indicated that more sources would be forthcoming. Now that they've got a very successful v7 out the door, I'm hopeful...

Oh! Something else - notes that exist on the primary name. Could your plugin move any primary name notes that it might find into the person note field? (Local note? I'm not sure what it's called, the note field on the Main tab.) RM doesn't allow notes on the primary name, but TMG did, and they got i...

Bless you for your patience in helping us RM folks try to figure out how to maximize data transfer and utility, while also learning about the capabilities of FH. I think I'm starting to get a handle on this - FH is much more like TMG than RM, which is a major advantage, but it's taking me a minute t...

Had no idea that there was a GEDCOM standard way of adding a TYPE to any kind of fact. That is indeed a much better solution than the witness role. I have tried changing some things on my test project in the AltName fact that I created and can't find a way to get the TYPE to be a field in the middle...

Pete,
Fellow RM immigrant here! I found the knowledge base article about Places and Addresses to be very helpful, you might give it a glance.

https://fhug.org.uk/kb/kb-article/worki ... new-users/

This is how I imagine it could work, to convert the names info from RM into an Alt Names fact in FH. The GEDCOM export from RM, an individual with 3 name records, notes, sources, dates, sort dates and media. 0 @I2@ INDI 1 NAME James Malcolm /Price/ 2 GIVN James Malcolm 2 SURN Price 2 NICK Mack 2 NOT...

I am of the "keep it simple" school of thought. AltName Fact Type should be as similar to existing fact structure and usage as possible. Make it like the Title Fact. The name goes in the attribute field, whatever parts of the name we want to display. We can add date, age, location, note, source, med...

Update: small freakout was unnecessary, all of the data from the gedcom created by RM does exist in FH, it's not been thrown out. The task is now how to make it usable, how to convert all but the primary name into a name attribute with all of the data moving over. I should have known to trust FH not...

Oh boy, the names thing has just become my biggest issue, I hadn't really looked at it yet. I'm certain that I'm far from alone in having multiple names for people, and those Alt Name Facts (RM terminology) are a hybrid of name and fact - the data is name parts, and the names show up in people lists...

Name-Only Witnesses do not survive the export from RM7 and import to FH7. Both RM and FH support name-only witnesses with roles, however, FH and RM write that out to Gedcom differently and FH doesn't understand how RM is showing it. Is this something that an import plugin could fix? I don't have ver...

I don't have any captions, descriptions, dates, or reference numbers on any of my media in RM. (That's the name of the fields in the RM software), so the gedcom is accurate there. On the individuals, the Family Search ID number is in the _FSFTID field. I assume the _AMTID is the Ancestry Member Tree...

Thanks for that insight Mike, that gave me other things to look at, and for. I am using FH7 trial version (cash flow issues), and trying multiple export/import things so I can clean up on RM as much as possible before doing "the real one" once I purchase the program. A GEDCOM without RM specifics wo...

I am finding that a GEDCOM that includes the RM specific details is superior to one without. Just at the beginning of my testing, but I very much want my places to have the notes, images, and lat/long from RM to import into FH. That is only possible via GEDCOM that includes the RM specific informati...

I've wanted my Residence (fam) to be Residence (individual) facts on the HOH with everyone else as witnesses for quite some time, so this is necessary cleanup, really. It's not that I want to change from shared to individual, it's that I want to change from "family" to individual. I'm 100% addicted ...

I also will be converting from RM to FH and very much appreciate all of the work already done here in the FHUG to help, and anything people discover now. I'd already been gradually converting my Res (fam) facts to regular Res facts, but will make sure to do so completely before I do the conversion. ...