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Hello Mike Firstly - good news. I am down to 25 items on the UDF list. All things that I have tried, from both the Individuals and Family records sets, have worked well. We won't worry about the "Fax" entry. I have brought it across as a fax number and I'll look at it in due course - it's a research...

Hello Mike and thanks once again for your reply. I will work carefully through your latest guidance, and I certainly can see some UDF list entries that are prefixed with the FAM tag (Family Record) instead of the INDI tag (Individual Record). However, please note it will be Wednesday evening before ...

Hi Mike >> Paul, do you now have Physical Description, Height, Weight and Eye colour attributes in the Facts tab for several people, >> i.e. you ran the Change Any Fact Tag plugin four times. >> If that only resulted in 24 changes then presumably you only had 24 instances of those four types of UDF ...

Hi Bill Yes, it could well be part of the address. The current exercise that I am conducting under Mike's expert guidance has revealed quite a few inconsistencies in my Generations data, which have built-up over its twenty-odd years of use. I should add that some of my data got into Generations via ...

Hello Mike and thanks for that guidance. I have followed it step-by-step, nothing more and nothing less. I have ended up with a results log of 24 items, and re-running the UDF list plugin has reduced the number of records thereon from 1,173 to 1,149. I will await your further instructions. Many than...

Hi Ken OK, whether by Generations error or user error, I believe that I have ended up with a bit of the address in the "fax" box :- Capture1.JPG I haven't checked how many times it has happened, but it is data that needs salvaging and concatenating with the other parts of the address. Thanks. Paul

OK Mike, I have carried out the exact steps that you detailed yesterday. I now await your further instructions. Just one quick point. I mentioned "fax" in one of my posts earlier in the week. That is not a "fax" number, but a number that forms part of an address in the USA, akin to a postcode in the...

Many thanks for those detailed instructions Mike.

I will deal with that tomorrow (Friday) evening.

Best wishes.

Paul

Hello Mike, me again ! I have gone through the UDF tags and can report back as follows :- ADDR = Address This is address data accessed from the Address icon in the toolbar at the top of the Generations screen CAUS = Cause of death Facts tab, Type column CLAW = Common Law Marriage tab, Common Law is ...

Hello Mike and thank you for the reply. I think that you are suggesting that we are interested in the penultimate column of the UDF items, that which is headed "Item Tag" :- Capture - 8 March 2022.JPG If so, this has the following sixteen tags therein :- ADDR CAUS CLAW DATE DESC EYES FAX HAIR HEAL H...

Hello Mike Thank you for last night’s response - much appreciated. I have focussed on one part of your reply this evening. I said :- William Francis Rowland GREENWOOD is Person ID 49 on Generations and Record Id 49 on the "Individuals" tab on FH. The penultimate line of his Individual Record on FH s...

Hello Mike and sorry for the delay in reverting to you. >> You mention "2409 individuals and 932 families". >> I think you are looking at the lower left border of the main FH window. >> That always lists the number of Individual records and Family records, but is nothing to do with the number of Not...

Hi Mike and thanks for all of that guidance. I agree that this is quite a steep learning curve and, as such, I have decided to revisit this on Saturday morning. I will be fresher and will have more time available to work through all of your suggestions carefully and systematically. I will post again...

Hello Mike and thanks for that. >> In Key Features for Newcomers in section Records, Fields and Multimedia did you follow the advice to use Tools > Preferences > Records Window and set each Record Type Display Option to Always show so that the Records Window has a tab for each Record Type? Yes, I ha...

Hi Mike and thanks for that. i have now reviewed everything in "Getting Started" and in "Key Features for Newcomers". That was generally quite straightforward to read, although I envisage that it will be more complicated when trying deal apply it to an actual project. I have also worked through this...

Hi Mike Thank you for the guidance. Taking the "Import from Generations Family Tree" at :- https://fhug.org.uk/kb/kb-article/importing-to-family-historian/ 1. I am happy that I have properly dealt with the Section entitled "Export your Gedcom File from Generations". 2. I am happy that I have properl...

I have gone through the dataset that I cleansed using the pre-load cleanup Plugin, and quite a lot of notes etc have not imported into FH. I have gone on to run the other Plugins, with this result :- Capture98.JPG And with this result :- Capture99.JPG Can you please point me in the direction of what...

Thanks Bill and Mike for all of your help on this. I was using Edge as my browser and the Plugins didn't seem to like downloading on that. I then tried Chrome, all seems to have worked and I have five Plugins showing in Family Historian. I have also imported one Gedcom file as a "New Project" follow...

Hi Bill and thanks for the reply. I do not get that Window when I run the Plugin. When I click on Tools/Plugins, I get the Plugins dialogue box thus :- Capture1.JPG I assume that "Clean Up Notes" is the pre-import Plugin that I want, as its version number and date last updated agree with the downloa...

Thanks Bill & Mike, but I am still struggling with this. Maybe I am missing something obvious ? Taking Mike's post, I am fine with steps 1 and 2. However, at step 3 "...The Plugin then lets you choose the GEDCOM file you exported from Generations", how do I make that choice please ? FH has got the S...

I am new to Family Historian and am struggling to successfully import my Gedcom created in Generations. I have successfully exported my Gedcom using the instructions given in the section "Export your Gedcom File from Generations" at :- https://fhug.org.uk/kb/kb-article/importing-to-family-historian/...