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I don't think anyone has suggested viewing the Places record list, selecting the place of interest and using View > Record Links. This allows sorting by surname, but doesn't provide as much context. The Where Used Records Link plugin provides more context but doesn't support the required sorting. N...

You can use the following Excel equation to extract a surname at the end of a string, assuming that the name is in cell C3. To make it clearer I have inserted # - replace this with space. =RIGHT(C3,LEN(C3)-FIND(CHAR(134),SUBSTITUTE(C3," # ",CHAR(134),(LEN(C3)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(C3," # ","")))/LEN(" # ")...

The Oxford English Dictionary doesn't help - It defines Relative (noun) as - " a person connected by blood or marriage ". and Relation (noun) as - " a person who is connected by blood or marriage; a relative ". The Ancestor and Descendant filters that I use are in the Row / Relations tab of the FH Q...

Mike I have edited one of my ancestor queries and added the Relation column which is the =IsRelativeOf(FileRoot(),%INDI%) expression and the Relation 2 column which is the =IsTrue( RelationPool( FileRoot() ) = RelationPool( %INDI% ) ) expression. The extract below shows all the Deveraux it returns B...

Mike I have tested both of these on my FH project The Exclude unless... =IsRelativeOf( FileRoot(), %INDI% ) returns 786 records The Exclude unless... =IsTrue( RelationPool( FileRoot() ) = RelationPool( %INDI% ) ) is true returns 1041 of the 1126 people in my tree. I will compare the two result sets ...

Then you talk about adding just facts, which I assume is the usual manual process of adding Facts. What is not clear is where those fact details originate since you say above that there are "no Sources or Facts". Peter said that " this relative created the GED from Ancestry but seems to have used a...

I would be interested in a more detailed step-by-step instruction on how you do this FH <=> Excel. Looks very handy! There have been a number of posts regarding saving query results - which is done by clicking on the floppy disk icon, or on the gear wheel and Save Results Set As.... on the Query Re...

Now if only we could get colour into the reultset There are some things FH can't do - or doesn't do very well! The queries in this thread are classic examples. The result set may provide the information asked for, but it is not very easy to interpret. In cases like this, I use an Excel spreadsheet....

I was using FH last night, but when I tried to open it this morning, I got a Licence Expired message as below - I tried re-entering the activation code, but this gave the no instances available message.

Can anybody help or do I need to contact FH Support?

Thanks - I should have seen that!

How do I add a "Relationship to Parents" column to a query (i.e. b= birth, a= adopted etc)
I can't find the field in the query "Fields" list, and I haven't been able to find the correct field name in the knowledge Base to be able to add it manually.

Calculating Anhnetafel numbers has more hidden gotcha's, and I don't think CP could hope to give an answer that everyone is happy with. Ahnentafel numbering only has "hidden gotcha's", as you term them, if you ignore the rules of application. Correct application has nothing to do with making people...

Given that FH takes account of non-biological relationships when calculating DNA relationships, it looks like an oversight that it ignores them when assigning Ahnentafel numbers. Having raised the support query regarding Ahnentafel, I have been having an ongoing email conversation with Calico Pie a...

We are getting way off topic here - Not sure whether I should have started a new Ahnentafel thread. This devil is going to continue to "advocate" on two grounds: What is a "direct line"? .......... What does it mean to "be an ancestor"? ................ the German word Ahnentafel in English - ( Ance...

In a lot of adoptions, the birth mother's identity is not known . So, the only "parents" listed will be the adoptive ones - who will, therefore, be Parental Family[1]! Unless you create a birth family with an unnamed parent? True - but that should not be necessary just to make Ahnentafel numbers wo...

Just to say I have just raised the Ahnentafel issue with FH Support - I have not got a ticket number yet . Ticket number is #296612 As I was drafting the message, I realised that I had overlooked the most problematic (and very common) adoption scenario! In a lot of adoptions, the birth mother's iden...

I didn't make it clear in my last post - I did test the re-order tool by making the adoptive parents the "1st Parent Family" - it didn't flag up this anachronism.

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02 Nov 2022 21:05

The only gotcha I can think of is with adoptive/foster parents where it is crucial for the birth parents to be listed before the non-birth parents.

Mike, this seems to be one type of out of sequence data that the FH Re-order Out-of-Sequence Data Tool can't fix!

Lorna and I both believe that it is the 1st 'Parent family' of the Child (as shown in the All tab) that is assigned the Ahnentafel numbers and a=adopted, f=foster, and b=birth have no effect. On that you are correct - I was assuming that FH was smarter than it is! What I put in the Relationship box...

So in this case the birth mother Maisie would be assigned an Ahnentafel number and Ada not assigned a number. Peter, can you please confirm that as I think you are mistaken? Lorna is correct Mike - your assumption that Maisie is the birth mother is not right, in fact Maisie never had any children. ...

Mike's point was that the birth parents need to be listed before the non-birth parents. The order of the Parents families can be changed in the All tab. Looking at the All tab for an Ancestor who was adopted I can't find how to change the order of parents. I have found it!!!!! How does FH determine...

Thanks everyone for your input - I am posting now to close this thread - as I have now identified the cause of the unhandled exception problem! _ Unhandled Exception.jpg _ For many years I have used a pen tablet in preference to a mouse. The pen has three programmable "button" actions, Tapping the t...

Based on Trent's example, that seemed to be what he was looking for. Regarding adoptions and fostering - I have a couple of adoptions in my tree and I have the child Relationship field filled as " b " for birth parents and " a " for adoptive parents as per image below. In my FH project FH assigns th...

The Surname approach can be problematic in a couple of ways, If the Surname is common (e.g. Smith) there could be other male Smiths in the family tree who are not in the paternal line you want, and who would not be filtered out by Relationship includes "father" There is also another scenario involvi...

These are two completely different messages with different causes, can you confirm which one you are getting. Since upgrading to Windows 11 I have received both. Autosave is set to every 5 minutes and to autosave on close. I only have one project, and I have only ever used FH 7 so no issue there. T...