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To answer some of the questions - "Unexpected conflicted copy in OneDrive (21004)" is not relevant to my issue, that implies two copies that do not agree. In my case it is saying that there are changes in FH that have not yet been saved to the Gedcom file. I don't use Dropbox so that is not an issue...

I have just upgraded to from Windows 10 to Windows 11 - (attempts after previous invitations to do so failed - but this latest invitation worked). I am using OneDrive and have FH on both PC and Laptop, so I am using Directory Junctions to synchronise the two. After installing Windows 11 I had to re-...

! can say that (a) CA is the two-letter code for Canada, (b) that in the native FH Geocoder, "London, CA", which clearly ;) means "London, Ontario, Canada", gets geocoded to London, California - which is in Tulare County and had a population of 1,869 in 2010. As distinct from the 422k of the Canadi...

I refer you to my earlier post - You will not find a place (village, town or city) called Sudeley - If it ever existed, it doesn't now, except as a parish, East of Cheltenham and South of Winchcombe. Well, it is shown on my FH map as a village (openstreetmaps)! Type Sudeley in location search bar, ...

1. Geocoding does NOT seem to like national abbreviations (e.g. USA, UK, etc.) they seem to not Geocode. There is an International Standard - ISO 3166 - that defines 2 and 3 character codes for Countries. For the United States these are US and USA . I have just one American place in my family tree,...

Best Practice doesn't mean obligatory. Quite true, but I did say 'recommends' . I prefer to observe it, so I have a number of places with two or three entries, including a few where a place is known by two "different" names, e.g Sturton Le Steeple, Nottinghamshire (aka Sturton cum Fenton), and Mall...

But I tried the variants I have for Sudeley: Sudeley, Gloucester, England Sudeley, Gloucestershire, England Sudley, Gloucester, England . . . and a few others that had Sudeley Manor in Place 1. But Google did not seem to find it. I refer you to my earlier post - You will not find a place (village, ...

All this talk of merging place names makes me feel very nervous! Quoting from the FH Knowledge Base - "Genealogical best practice recommends that you document the (place) name as it was recorded in the source that refers to it, i.e. an historical name" . Over the generations my maternal family place...

In the case of Sudeley, Gloucester, England , I found that Google maps went there and Wikipedia has co-ordinates for Sudeley. The Maps Life Facts plug-in gets there but the native FH Geocoder doesn't - at first glance it's in the middle of the Gloucester suburbs (possibly the result of the middle n...

OOPs!

I have edited it.

Returning to the original reason for this post, it is a scenario that many of us must have experienced. For example, in 5 generations of my own family tree the name William Rollin appears 12 times! Could I suggest that the Custom ID field could be a possible solution. If it is not being used for cus...

A workaround if you need Unicode is to open the file first in Notepad, and then save it as a UTF8 file. The Excel problem has existed in Excel since at least 2009, so isn't going to get fixed anytime soon by Microsoft, but a wish list request for UTF8 format in this situation, or a report to CP mig...

I didn't say, but the snippet I posted was from an FH Query exported as a CSV file. FH automatically puts quote marks around strings that contain commas when exporting CSV files. If you have problems opening these in Excel etc. you need to modify the import program settings as per the LibreOffice po...

I have only just picked up this thread - I have not read it all but there seems to be a lot of discussion about a non-existent problem here. FH, like any good database exports csv files with any field with commas in parentheses as below, any software that can read csv files will recognise these "Agb...

As a matter of interest, in the uncles and aunts query why did you use Exclude unless for uncles and Add if for aunts? It works, but both lines could be Add if . It's gotten to be a habit! Using Exclude unless in the first filter expression seems appropriate as a reminder that I am leaving a lot of...

I don't have any half cousins in my tree, so don't have an example to see how FH treats that Relationship.

If FH lists them as "Half Cousin" then the simple "Add if" second expression is all that is needed to include them in the query.

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. Say, for example I wanted to list all my Uncles and Aunts in one quer...

Thanks Mike,

Just what I wanted - I had new glasses just three weeks ago, so I have no excuse for missing those in the "All Functions" Listing

In a query Is there a way of displaying the Fact Type (i.e. whether an Event or an Attribute).

I can find functions for =FactLabel(), =FactSet() and =FactOwner(), but nothing for Fact Type.

I want to create Family Group Sheet reports for four generations of my Family Tree (30 reports total), but I have a problem with page breaks occurring in the middle of "Child" records, which doesn't look tidy, in some cases the break creates an "orphan" record of a single line. I migrated to FH from...

Just to say, I have now removed the unwanted MAP , LATI and LONG entries. In response to your replies (for which thanks) - I do a "Small" backup of my FH project every time FH prompts when I exit, but if I am planning to do something like this I also make another copy and make the changes on that. I...

Mike, Thanks for the explanation - my tree was originally exported as a Gedcom file from Family Tree Maker. The MAP , LATI and LONG values must have come from there. I was going to leave them in the Gedcom file, however, I have just made a copy of it to examine in Microsoft Excel and found that they...

I have been tidying up Places (merging duplicates etc.) in my FH Project, and decided to have a look at the GEDCOM file to see how places were handled. I found the following anomaly. In FH I have 30 links to the place " Sheffield, Yorkshire, England ". In the Gedcom file most of these show Latitude ...

Those Family groups do not match your description in several ways: They are in the wrong chronological order. John should be on the left and Lachlan on the right. That is corrected by using the small black arrows to the right of the three Spouse tabs. Having the Family groups tabs in chronological ...

Thanks Mike,

Just to advise I have raised the issue with Calico Pie.

I have now been informed that the issue has been "submitted for consideration" - reference number is #441735