Family Historian User Group

GEDCOM is currently at 7.0.12, just an FYI!

From my experience, most genealogy programs don’t support v5.5.1 of the GEDCOM specification very well, so expecting them to support v7 is going to be just as questionable! I actively comment to the steering committee for v7 and know about many of the changes to v7 over v5.5.1 and at some level, eve...

KFN, I think you missed my earlier request. Could you please identify exactly which words are giving you a problem and where they appear in Reports as it may be possible to fix them without a Language Pack or a word-procesor. I’m just starting to play with the Book Building process so the only word...

However, I do see your point, as said US software often does include the option to use British spelling. Not sure CP has considered offering that. I always export any reports to a word processor anyway, so would just use the spellchecker in this case, or search/replace. How well does exporting to a...

I’ve noted that reports use British spelling of some words.

Is there a switch to change to American spelling, or am going to tell my readers to “just get over it”!

Yes I’ve played with the chart with longer text boxes and it kind of works but is less than adequate.

I may have to look into exporting to MS-Word and insert pages or see what else I can do!

Thanks for your input!

Ok, so I did that. But the new “chart” is a full page and any “free text” following it does not flow behind the image, rather it starts a new page. My intention is to build pages with images of places or things with maybe two or three paragraphs of information about the image that flow together with...

I'm planning my first book from the database using v7.0.19 of FH.

I can't figure out how to add an image to the text of a "Free Text" item.

Any ideas?

Robert Jacobs wrote: ↑

29 Jan 2023 19:02

It doesn't need to be changed, esp in this instance where the meaning is clear on both sides of the ocean.

Exactly correct!

I’m not sure that the word use is an “American” thing, rather it is how the words are normally used. alternate’ as a verb, to go back and forth from one state to another. A ‘substitute’. An action. ‘alternative’ is a noun, to have an ‘option’. Could be an adjective, to describe something. Yes, “ The...

But seriously…. In Genealogy, events tend to happen at a point in time (birth, death, burial, Adoption, emigration, immigration) rather than over a period in time. Where attributes tend to be a lifetime or long term quality, feature or characteristic of a person. BUT… In family history, we start add...

Adrian, This is where I think the ColeValleyGirl is missing out on a great way to pad her families history book, with pages of photos and events/attributes where her sisters change hair color. Call the new book, ‘The history of hair color in my family”, could sell millions! :lol: Maybe even make a B...

ColeValleyGirl wrote: ↑

27 Dec 2022 14:16

I would like to reassure people that I do not actually record all the instances when my family members changed their hair colour. Life is too short when you have/had 4 sisters and a mother with a penchant for the dye bottle...

Or hair style

It depends on how much significance you give to the <DATE_PERIOD> and <DATE_RANGE> definitions that associate them with Attributes and Events respectively. They are not even examples but "Where:" definitions. So there is some ambiguity. I see your point! In v7.0 they maintain the distinction/ambigu...

OK, that makes an even stronger case. However, the GEDCOM 5.5.1 specification only associates Date Periods with Attribute states and Date Ranges with Event single dates, which is why some aggressive GEDCOM compliance checkers complain if used the other way round. In general though, most software do...

From a purely GEDCOM standpoint I don't understand where a FROM and TO location can be entered! I only see one place to enter a location that makes sense! In GEDCOM v5.5.1 the EMIG tag (old domicile) and IMMI tag (new domicile) would have a single PLAC and DATE tags. A relative of mine emigrated fro...

The EVEN.TYPE tag becomes the tag description, and why I write my GEDCOM entry as: 1 EVEN 2 TYPE Military, Battle of the Bulge So in FH, you must have to create a new custom event for every one of those military battles. Otherwise, you cannot enter an event with that TYPE code. Wouldn't be easier t...

The initial design of GEDCOM v5.0 and prior was very different than what we see in v5.4 thru v5.5.1 and now beyond. The design had not yet defined a group called “attributes” and had just started to toy with a group called “events”. In v5.0 all attributes were defined thusly, with no subtags just th...

Now, all of this being said, In v5.0 GEDCOM the standard did say: The EVEN tag must be followed by an <EVENT_DESCRIPTOR> which describes the event. The <EVENT_DESCRIPTOR> is optional for the other types of events. But this was updated in v5.4 and forward. At one point a discussion was held to create...

So 5.5 was "maybe" ("no" in FH6), 5.5.1 was "no" (and "no" in FH7), and 7.0 is "yes" Im not sure what the “5.5 was maybe” means but the structure for the EVEN tag in v5.5 and v5.5.1 are the same! The change in v7.0 allows for the creation of a custom event with both an event name and an event value...

I agree completely that in natural language, a battle is an event not an attribute, but it definitely has a value (Midway, Waterloo, Hastings, etc)! In v5.5.1 GEDCOM I would enter the following: 1 EVEN 2 TYPE Military, Battle of Midway In v7.0 GEDCOM we will be able to enter the following: 1 EVEN B...

I agree that many applications have different implementations, but in my opinion, that is more due to not following the specification including omitting required features than ambiguity in the specification. I agree 100%. In GEDCOM we think of: An “attribute” is an assigned property of an individua...

I can't see that in GEDCOM 7( p56 ), but I may be looking in the wrong place. Actually what I quoted was from v5.5.1 p56, the wording in GEDCOM v7.0.11 is a little different in section “3.3.2.1 Individual Attributes” An individual’s national heritage or origin, or other folk, house, kindred, lineag...

Well it has: CASTE_NAME:= {Size=1:90} A name assigned to a particular group that this person was associated with, such as a particular racial group, religious group, or a group with an inherited status. and CAST {CASTE}:= The name of an individual's rank or status in society which is sometimes base...

It's also difficult to reconcile people's views when some are adamant that patronymics aren't surnames while others, myself included, are relaxed about them being regarded as such. (For the avoidance of doubt - I agree that patronymics aren't inheritted surnames, but that wasn't my question!) I can...