Family Historian User Group

Sarah wrote: Having returned to genealogy and FH7 after a few months' hiatus, I notice that the FamilySearch Id attribute is now not editable and appears greyed out? Is anyone able to explain this? I liked the ability to add the FamilySearch Family Tree ID to my relatives' profiles. .. Mark wrote: I...

davidf wrote: No - certainly not my intention, but as with any source you need to know why it was created. I think it is important to distinguish between the global tree and the record collections at FamilySearch. I am not a member of the LDS Church and I know very little about their theology or the...

I too rarely go to the home page. I did not go to Amazon to check, but do the donations through Amazon purchases also apply to purchase made through Amazon.com in US?

cwhermann wrote: ↑ 29 Jul 2022 14:24 ... So yes you could set up your "US Census Template" so that the bibliography consists of just the Year - the result from a data entry standpoint is that all the other information will need to be entered into the citation level fields. Not quite - as I understa...

.... In a bibliography is it really that edifying to say: Illinois. Cook County. 1930 Census. ... 2019 Illinois. Cook County. 1930 Census. ... 2020 Illinois. Cook County. 1930 Census. ... 2021 etc. Or just 1930 Census. ... Unless you are viewing the actual paper copies in a specific archive I think...

Is CP considering changing this restriction for those of us that prefer lumping? Are there other sources this impacts? Bev When I was first considering a move from RM to FH (back when the only way was via Gedcom), I raised this issue with CP. I was struggling with the need to edit all my templates ...

As a former RM8 user, (albeit for a short time), I found I did not utilize the “reuse citation” feature very often. Most of the time the limitation was with the note. For example, even with 10 individuals in a census household, (citation fields identical and text from source identical) but I wanted ...

There would be a benefit . . . as in the case of the Census tab, it could be a reminder as to which census events were missing, as there would be blanks. Working from Bill’s example, if there was a specific census you thought the individual should be in, but you have been unable to locate the recor...

I have several people in my tree that were also sources of information. The Source Record for this interview/transcript lists them as the author. Elizabeth Shawn Mills, provides several examples of interviews in Section 3.32 Interview Recording & Transcripts . I then add details about the interview ...

Thanks Helen,
I try to keep my download file “cleaned out” on a regular basis so it sounds like the plug-in download is similar to an “.exe” file once it has been installed in FH, the program has stored the the files it needs and I can delete the download install file.

There are a number of useful plugins in the forum that are not in the plugin store that I would like to download and I want to make sure the plugin ends up in the correct file. When I click on the link of a plugin icon in a post, I get the pop up window to save in my Windows Downloads file. What fil...

While investigating the problem I discovered that if you change the Source Tag Set: to something else and then back to RootsMagic Import (project) everything works OK. By adding this step in the process I have been able to change fact tags. So far, I have only changed facts associated with specific...

Mike, I will change them to system wide fact and give it a try. Lorna I agree, in general will proven should be a probate fact, but in this instance it should be when the will was written. This is a “one occurrence” change which easily could have been done manually and I was using it to gain experie...

I am trying to change a custom fact/attribute called Will Proved imported from RM8 to a standard fact/event called Will using the Change Any Fact Tag plugin. The Change "Source Tag Name' into the "Target Tag Name" button stays grayed out and I cannot complete the change. See image below. I ran the p...

To add another data point and feedback. As a “newbie” FH convert from RM, I monitor the forum on a regular basis where I picked up on this plugin when first made available. I downloaded it and run it on a weekly basis. I felt the plug-in was probably more important for a new user, given that I am ad...

Theresa,
I was successful using the edit>delete to remove fields.

Thanks Mike,

I have a Citation level Field in many of my templates called Credit Line where I enter the source of the source in database, this portion of the template reads ; citing {Credit Line}. In most instances this works great, but I have an instance where a portion of the entry in the field should be itali...

Thanks Mark,
My apologies - my initial search led me to FHUG and the help pages - which is how I got as far as I did. I didn't think about doing another search focusing in the forum.

I did a direct import from RM8 to FH7 and am attempting to get the FamilySearch ID numbers to show on the Individual Records. I added a tab to the records window and selected the expression %INDL._FSID% but nothing populated. I expanded the individual record and do not see the _FSID tag . To confirm...

I was not requesting a new feature - just acknowledging your work and the recommendation of customizing the Citation Window to include the the Text from Source in the Citation-specific Details section and how much it improves my work flow and supports the Source-Driven Data Entry.

One option that might actually make it even easier is to use the Menu > Customize Citation Window... feature. Then you can add the Text from Source field directly to the Citation tab in either the Source Record section at the top or the Citation-specific Details section at the bottom. That then avo...

Thanks Mike, Worked great - once I remembered I needed to let FH know I was editing the (template) tab ;) A question for my learning - the numbers in the Alignment Group, Min Width and Percent - obviously control the horizontal position of the the fields in the Record window. but what do the numbers...

The benefit of of your “omission” was the need to go back and review info in the help and book. The explanation was all there, just missed it the first time. :D BTW: If you are interested, since FH supports GEDCOM 5.5.1 that allows two Repository links, the tab can be customized with two Repository ...

No, that is not the only way to create source-repository links. The alternative is to customize the Source record Property Box and Citation Window to include the SOUR.REPO field. i.e. Open the Source record Property Box or the Citation Window. Click the cog Menu top right and choose Customize Prope...