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Hello Mike An update and a couple of questions please. Having defined those Gedcom tags in Generations and created a new Gedcom file, I have followed your methodology carefully and appear to have successfully imported it into FH. I say "appear" as I will confirm that tomorrow after a side-by-side vi...

I think that I should be OK if I create four character Gedcom tags but avoiding anything on that schedule. Do you agree ? Hello again Mike An added complication is that there seem to be preset Gedcom tags in Generations that do not appear on that schedule. Two quick examples are :- Citizenship = CI...

When assigning GEDCOM Tags it would be wise to use 5 or 6 capital letters to avoid any risk of accidentally using one of the 4 letter Standard GEDCOM tags, except where you do want the Generations item to become a Standard GEDCOM Event. Hi Mike I haven't experimented too much with Gedcom tags in Ge...

Events ~ Probate Notes ~ Probate Events ~ Travel Notes ~ Travel Those pairs could be assigned the same GEDCOM Tag so that they merge into one fact in FH if that is appropriate. Probate GEDCOM Tag PROB is a Standard GEDCOM Event. "An event of judicial determination of the validity of a will. May ind...

Hello Mike Tonight's news is that this is getting quite complicated ! The Define Family Fields dialogue box has three tabs - Marriage, Notes and Events. Marriage has six events therein ; Notes has one field which is Misc Notes ; and Events has five events therein. All are showing Gedcom tags thus :-...

Hello Mike I meant to say that I have successfully exported the entire dataset that we are working on as a csv file. That includes the data that we have established doesn't have Gedcom tags. The drawback is that the worksheet is so wide that I have had to plug a projector into a laptop and project i...

Hello Mike Can you answer any of my earlier questions about the 'scope' of the GEDCOM Tag definitions? i.e. Does one change affect all people in all datasets, or not? Is there any way of discovering which Facts are used and which are not? I haven't had much time to experiment this evening, but if th...

Hi Mike Continuing.... And still on ID49, Banns does not have a Gedcom tag. Capture7 - 23 March 2022.JPG How do you think that I should move forward ? I have reviewed in detail two men out of a dataset containing about 2,000 persons. And on top of that, this is just one of ten datasets (Generations ...

Hi Mike Continuing... Moving on to ID49, the Facts tab of the Edit Person dialogue box has entries for Minister at baptism, Witness at wedding and Banns :- Capture4 - 23 March 2022.JPG The Facts tag of the Define Persons dialogue box shows that Minister at baptism does not have a Gedcom tag :- Captu...

Hello Mike, Yes, very promising. On ID250, the Edit Person dialogue box has a Flags tab, and a button therein to Define Flags. This opens the Define Person Fields dialogue box. If we click on the Facts tab therein and scroll down to Cause of Death, we can see its Gedcom tag :- Capture1 - 23 March 20...

Hi Mike and thanks again. >> Does the Name Cause of death with Tag CAUS appear in the Optional Fields tab list? Yes :- Capture4 - 22 March 2022.JPG >> Do the Names Minister at baptism and Witness at wedding appear there and if so what is their Tag? No, they don't. >> Are all those three items standa...

Hello Mike and thanks for that. I followed the guidance at https://fhug.org.uk/kb/kb-article/importing-to-family-historian/ when dowloading my GEDCOM, and particularly :- >> Click on GEDCOM File… >> Make sure that: >>The Who box is set to All Individuals >>Include sources is checked >>Destination is...

Hi Mike On the basis that you want the original Gedcom before and Plugins have been run, I've pulled the data below. Thanks. Paul 0 @I250@ INDI 1 NAME William Francis Rowland /GREENWOOD/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE BET JUL 1846 AND SEP 1846 2 PLAC Oxford District 1 BAPM 2 DATE 16 JUL 1846 2 PLAC St Peter ...

Hi Mike >> Did the Clean Up Notes plugin have the desired effect of bringing the note text local to the Research Notes facts? Can you explain what you mean by that please ? >> Paul, before going any further, can we check the GEDCOM file exported from Generations. >> It should still exist quite separ...

Hello Mike

> In the Records Window on the Notes tab, are there many Note Records left?

Two - attached ;
Thanks.

Paul

Hi Mike If we start with my first example of apparently missing data, for (ID 250), I attach :- the facts tab from Generations, which has entries for Minister at baptism, Witness at wedding and Banns ; Capture2 - 21 March 2022.JPG the FH Property Box All tab fully expanded, which spreads across two ...

Hello Mike and thank you for yesterday's reply. As this board will only allow three three attachments per post, I am going to have to answer in several stages. If we start with my first example of apparently missing data, for (ID 250), I attach :- the facts tab from Generation, which has an entry fo...

Hi Mike and thanks for that. I have worked through the first half of that post, including running the Clean Up Notes Plugin, and have reached..... >> BTW: With your new-found knowledge of where Notes are shown, have all the Notes in Generations been imported to FH, or are some still missing? I do be...

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I hope that is what you required and look forward to receiving your next instructions please.

Thanks.

Paul

Hi Mike and thanks for your response. >> Let us assume it is the Research Notes fact in your top screenshot with a Note Record. >> The text of that Note Record is Birth and Baptism details from St Barnabas Parish Register... >> Please scroll that display as far as possible to reveal the end of that ...

Hi Mike and thanks for the response. Looking back at the screenshot of 13 March 2022, we have three UDF tags for Edward George GREENWOOD, and then a further one that is INDI.HIST @N377@. I think that the reason for the block of three and then one separate one are that these probably relate to differ...

Hello Mike and thanks for that. I have run the Attributes Values Fix plug-in and have manually checked a sample of the changes made. It seems to have worked well and to have done what it was meant to do. The Attribute Notes Fix was slightly more curious as it told me it had made two changes, but did...

Hello Mike and thanks for getting back to me so quickly

> e.g. Height: 1877 - 5ft 5 & half inch that I assume means he was that height in 1877 that needs moving to the Date field.

Yes, that is correct. 1877 is the year and hence will need moving please.

Thanks.

Paul

Hello Mike and thanks for that. When I try t run a UDF list, I am now getting :- Capture1 - 17 March 2022.JPG I think that's what we were aiming for ! I will now await my next set of instructions from you. In the meantime, I will work through your guidance from a couple of days ago on backing up my ...

Hi Mike

The 25 item UDF list is here :-
I hope that helps.

Many thanks.

Paul