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I have been trying to create some "standard" Individual Summary Reports and hit a problem with the DEATH event. In the " Individual Events and Attributes " section Death Entries were showing a line for Cause: and another for Address: . I want to exclude the Cause: line, however, there doesn't seem t...

I have my FH Projects on Microsoft OneDrive, so that I can work seamlessly on PC or Laptop. I also have OneDrive on my Android tablet and am considering trying out GED Explorer. Could I use GED Explorer to access my OneDrive FH project Gedcom files direct, or should I create dedicated GED Explorer G...

I have both Understanding Functions and Understanding Expressions downloaded to my PC for easy access.

However, as I had already built the nested expression based on your example, I just tested "space-colon-space" myself -- Another example of "Reading the manual" being the last resort!

Hi Mike, The Section(...) Function is so useful! I am using AS and I use " : " (SPACE COLON SPACE). to split the elements of my customised Source Titles as per - Baptism : Ryhill, Yorkshire, England :7 Mar 1897 : ROLLIN Sarah : [A0004-0001] I wasn't sure that the Section function would accept " : " ...

Thanks Mike, I knew there wouldn't be a simple answer! My longest paths in my Media folder are 7 levels deep, so I decided to build from the bottom up. I found the easiest way to keep the syntax right was to start with the expression =TextIf(Section(%OBJE.FILE%,3,"\") = "",Section(%OBJE.FILE%,2,"\")...

I have my Media files split into sub-directories in the MEDIA folder. I have a Multimedia query that uses the Expression %OBJE.FILE[1]% which returns the path and file name e.g. Media\BMD Records\05-Marriages\Parish Records\Marriage (PR) DOHERTY Thomas - BARLOW Ada J [FAM-088].jpg Is there any Funct...

It is in the Source Title as per the template below in place of "KEYPERSON.CUSTOMID", which is OK for Births and Deaths, but for Marriages I use the FAMILY Custom ID, which I add manually. {SOURCETYPE} : {PLACE} : ({ADDR}) {DATE} : {KEYPERSON.SN.CAPS} {KEYPERSON.GN} & {SPOUSE.SN.CAPS} {SPOUSE.GN} : ...

Hi Nick, Custom IDs are working well for me, however, I have a request for an additional option with Custom IDs for Marriages. Rather than using Individual IDs for Marriage sources, I use the Family ID (%INDI.FAMS>REFN%) or (%FAM.HUSB>FAMS>REFN%.) Is it possible to add this as an option in the next ...

Regarding your Item 3 --- the View facility. You could do this with a Named List but it would not be automatic, you would have to add items to the list manually, but it only takes a couple of clicks. I have a Work in Progress List where I add records I am working on (or need to work on!) The big adv...

Following on from Adrian's post, using the cog wheel gives the following screen - . Accents.jpg . If you click on Add Accent Set you will see that there is an Icelandic Set, which has all the characters you need. When you add an accent set you get the options of either merging it with the existing s...

I concur with Jane and Mike - it is almost certainly a case of exceeding the 255 character file path length limit. In my experience most people are not aware of this limit. I try to keep my folder names short, but meaningful, so "Family Historian" (16 characters) I shorten to "FH" (2 characters). Th...

Thanks Nick,

What I should have said is that Ref ID field is the right place to enter it in AS. I had a new death certificate to enter yesterday, and the reference ID did appear in the FH Publication Information field.

I am using Ancestral Sources so I think the Ref ID field is the right place.

The total number of BMD certificates I have created sources for is about 30 so far, so it is not a big job to cut the information from the Fact Note and paste into the source.

Thanks for all the help guys.

You were right Mike, those are the only records where I have set the flag on both husband and wife! The flag is very specific, it is only set if I have purchased a GRO certificate - I have a number of Marriage Sources that are images from Parish Registers, and others that are only transcripts where ...

I have the individual custom query below, which I am planning to use to create an Index page for the folder where I keep my Marriage Certificate copies, I have similar queries set up for Birth and Death certificates. - Query.jpg - I am using a custom flag as a filter -- "Add if %INDI._FLGS.__MARRIAG...

too true! My father was born 18th December, but nan was late registering him, so adjusted his birth to 31 December to avoid a fine. The birth registration entry actually appears in the index in Q1, the following year! In England and Wales births must be registered within 42 days (six weeks). So, fo...

Several reasons, but the basic one is that I have people in my tree who, although records say they were married, I have not yet found a marriage record. One of the purposes of this particular query is to highlight those. So flagging people I definitely know were never married eliminates them from th...

Hi Mike, I found, by trial and error, that FH ranks Spouses based on their tab positions in the Property Box - from left to right (or top to bottom!) regardless of their chronological sequence. By ensuring all my 'Direct Line" spouses are the left hand (Top) 'Tab 1' they all become SPOUSE[1], thus m...

Hi I have a custom query that has a column that displays Year Married - I want to modify the expression to display "Unm" for people I have confirmed never married -- to differentiate them from those people for whom I have not yet found / recorded a marriage. The Property Box displays a "Status" box ...

Hi Nick, I have just tried to create a source for a death certificate I received today. This also did not insert the custom ID. I went to Tools and Options to check that I had set the template up correctly (which I had). When I clicked OK to exit the options screen closed and the Custom ID immediate...

Thanks Nick, I have just added a couple of baptism sources and it worked perfectly for those. One question on sources - I have an instance where I have two baptisms on the same media source (Parish Record) - One is for Tamar Smith (aged 17), and the other is for her niece Eveline Smith (aged 14), wh...

Nick, I have just updated to v 7.3.5 64 bit, and am trying out the custom ID feature for the first time, but I can't get it to work. The title template is as per attached image. The blank title before I enter data shows as - Census : : : [No Name] : [[No Name]] As soon as I select the head of househ...

One question on sources - I have an instance where I have two baptisms on the same media source (Parish Record) - One is for Tamar Smith (aged 17), and the other is for her niece Eveline Smith (aged 14), who is the illegitimate daughter of Tamar's sister Rebecca. I am not sure whether I should treat...

Thanks Jane, I never thought of using TextToNumber, it does exactly what I want. I have one or two 1921 census ages that are less that a year old, so I ran a test by entering zero in the years box for one child who was 9 months old. This displays as 0 yrs 9 mns in the Property Box. The FH Census Fac...

I have a query, one of the uses of which is checking for missing census records for individuals. It uses the expression %INDI.CENS[year=1841].AGE% to return the individuals age at the census. I want to export this query as a csv file to use in an Excel spreadsheet and want the age as a simple numeri...