Family Historian User Group

Watching this interesting discussion, like many I want to get stuff to Ancestry for cousin fishing.

We should say Rootsmagic 9 as of last night except they appear essentially the same apart from Associations.

ColeValleyGirl wrote: ↑

19 Sep 2022 16:30

wildbill wrote: ↑

19 Sep 2022 16:11

%FAM.CHIL[3]>NAME[3]%

will give you the third name of the third child.

Thank you, that question really was rather silly of me, should have thought a little first

I have been working again with Family Historian and trying to set things up to my preferences, this time the Family Tab available from the records window. Simple one first, I cannot find a way to bring the selected family into Focus, the Focus icon greys out. In my previous software I could easily n...

Thank you all and especially Mike Tate, using his suggestion effectively mimics the disabling of some of those custom facts from narrative reports.

I guessed there must have been a way but just could not find it.

I came from Rootsmagic and there in fact definitions I could uncheck some facts of choice so they did not print in narrative reports. These are custom facts I used for different purposes due to some shortcomings in that program but still useful to my research in many ways but I don't want them print...

@tatewise thank you for taking the time to add to this discussion, you are quite correct the expression structure and rules are not natural to me but I am learning. I support your approach of not providing copy and paste answers, that only leads to another request next time the need arises. The impa...

So =Not(Exists(%INDI.BURI.OBJE>FILE%)) will work. @tatewise, thank you for that information, I think I really need to build my own idiot guide to expressions in a language I understand. Your example above works splendidly except it encompasses living people who have no Burial fact. I tried the expr...

Thank you tatewise and AnthonyM for your input, I have now read the Understanding Expressions in detail and of course have another question. The question is <> and especially in reference to a headstone photo which I attach to facts so as to include in reports. I have a query which includes %INDI.BU...

I read a recent topic with some interest and did some experimenting but failing out of syntax ignorance so some guidance on multi conditional expressions would be appreciated. Cobblers, Boot and Shoe maker were occupations which ran back through history in one line of my family and my little learnin...

Regarding boundaries I discovered this geocode.txt file which ships with the program and appears to define that to some degree.

Questions now are how do FH utilize this file and can it be user edited to any additional benefit?

@lesliep I for one would support your wish as I have often wished I could enlarge the sentence preview box on that screen.

I have looked at Heredis which also supports geocoding of subdivisions for mapping but play with the Gedcom standard in a different way. Firstly this is the Heredis 2021 mapping and geocode support for the sub divisions; https://i.postimg.cc/5NjS8qQ5/heredis-subs.jpg And secondly this is their Gedco...

@davidf, thank you for your detailed post which is exactly what I expect. I have considerable investment in Rootsmagic here and found two solutions which I hope will be temporary. 1. Direct import which preserves my Named Lists and Research items but dumps my important Address geocoding and other Si...

Thank you Jane,

Have you specific examples where combining address & place in one Place field reduces the possibility of grabbing online hints? Thank you for the edit of the thread and for the pointers for further reading. I did try combining Site and Place in Rootsmagic in preparation for transition to FH, I did ...

Bill, thank you for that input, Pool was something which had not previously come up in my reading. I suppose I was hoping for something like Relations() which would display a tree count for the selected individual. I will continue to read and check through Standard and Custom queries to see if it ca...

I am relatively new to FH, searching this group for previous discussions and adding my comment rather than fragmenting, I hope this is the FH way, if not please correct me? Firstly I believe the Address, Building or Site being part of the Place field only confuses the Place designation and reduces t...

I have several study trees unlinked from my main tree and I would like to know if an expression or query exists to display the number of individuals in a persons tree when running a query?

Thank you in advance.

Reported to FH and passed to development for consideration.

Thank you Helen, that wish was for a feature my previous software did badly and nothing to do with media duplication. I will test this some more, for example my media are not in the Project folder, maybe try export import to see if the duplication gets resolved that way and will report the issue onc...

@wildbill: My comments you quoted were aimed at Squashit. Please follow my advice and start new topics for your problems that are quite different from these merge problems. I was not hijacking a post, rather attempting to provide further supporting evidence of Media Duplication and what appears to ...

Thank you for those screenshots, which clearly indicate why the auto-merge is not happening as the records are different. My media paths and file names are identical, the only exception being the Rootsmagic originated ones use lowercase "d:\" and newly dragged FH entries are noted as uppercase "D:\...

Mark, as an interested party can I jump in here and ask where to download your plugin for testing

Thx, Bill

I have never used FTM but I have invested data in Rootsmagic 7 and I would say there are many who cannot break ties with their previous data home for various reasons and hopefully FH will overcome those issues. Mass duplication in various areas of Rootsmagic was one reason for buying FH but I also h...

The first thing to recognise is that they are only warnings and not necessarily errors. Mike I realise these are warnings but I find it useful to highlight records needing possible review for errors Is it possible that you have some custom facts with the same name but in different Fact Sets? If so,...