Family Historian User Group

I don't understand the need to add citations to the the witness of a birth event. Why do you need to do these extra steps? When I have a child listed in an obituary, I write a citation to the birth event stating the source was from an obituary and if I also found a date for that person through a dif...

I will send the GEDCOM out right away. I did notice that the next Snapshot to dissapear will be the one you want, which is the Saturday, March 04, 2023 file. Is there a way to keep it from disappearing? And a question of curiosity - Is the Snapshot part of the GEDCOM, or part of FH? If part of FH, h...

Here you go.

Would it be helpful if I email this to you?

Okay, that worked. I am showing the same Plugin error message. I am not going to touch anything until you tell me what you need me to do! I do have to leave in 45 minutes... Will return in about 3 hours.

Hmmm, Let me look to see if I made a backup around that time, and if it might produce the error message. I'll let you know if I'm successful.

I just attempted numerous times to replicate what may have caused it and have been unable to make it happen again. Each time, it creates an undefined Event and each time the plugin works as it should. Sorry Mike, I can't seem to reproduce it. :( If I think of anything, I will certainly let you know.

My keyboard produces it with holding the Alt key while entering 4 on the keypad. I think we must have different keyboards because if I hold the Alt key while entering 0004 on the keypad, I get absolutely no response. I am on windows 10. This is where I got the Alt+4 from: https://altcodeunicode.com/...

I was using AS to input a custom Population Register entry. In the AS Template Editor > Fact field I chose "Use custom event" and then entered the following Event name in the field: "+ ♦Pop Register:" I had forgotten to first create a Fact Type in FH to match it. It came through into FH just fine an...

Okay Mike.
I will explain more tomorrow.

That showed me what the offending item was, but I'm the one that should say sorry. I had tried out a few things earlier this week, and didn't realise the consequences. All I had to do was create a new definition for that new event and it made everything good.
Thank you!

Sorry, I forgot the screenshot!

I am getting an error message when I try to run the Change and Fact Tag plugin. It occurs as soon as I press the Run command. Other plugins seem to work okay (the couple I tried). Can anyone give me a suggestion of what I need to do? See below...
Thanks!

Sorry Mike, I think our posts were sent at the same time.
Okay, sorry about not specifying the final use. , but now I have the expressions to use in the other areas, which will help out also.
Thank you very much!

I checked to make sure the expressions matched the Data References and tweaked the one expression to match my FINDAGR, and tried again, but I still get the same error. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? See below for updated expression and my Data References: =IsTrue( Exists(%INDI._FLGS.__FINDAGR%) and ...

Thank you Mike. I must be doing something wrong, because I get a warning that says " Data Reference is invalid, or not valid for this context ". I'm suppose to be plugging these into the Data Reference field for the Flag on the first one and in the Census Data Reference field for the other. Is that ...

I have a flag called FindaGrave. Is there an expression I can use that will check this Flag if there is a Burial Event listed? Also, for a different challenge; I am using the following expression to list a Census year if there is a Census Fact entered: %INDI.CENS[YEAR=1850].DATE:YEAR% and this expre...

Oh, great! I did not realise the plugin could also delete them. Thanks! Valkrider, thanks for the video link. I have shied away from using that feature because I didn't clearly understand how to use it. The video really helps to understand it better. I will definitely give it some more effort to use...

I know you can click the red X to delete the fact for the individual, but I am looking for a way to group the hundreds of individuals scattered throughout the project, and be able to delete the facts in a more streamlined manner.

I have two "events" that do not have another event they can become and simply need to go away. I have deleted one of them from my Fact Types list, but that does not delete them from my Properties box Facts tab. How would you recommend deleting these events from here, which should not have any effect...

Yes, but what would have triggered them to write the article? There would have been some reason. Did you win a prize?

Nicely stated, Lorna. When you put it like that, it certainly seems to fall into the category of a Source, not an Event.

Of course the plugin changes all instances of the same Fact! What was I thinking? :oops: As far as the newspaper articles, no those events did not happen to the principal person writing the article, but they did happen to the pricipal person being written about. Doesn't that make it a "NewsClip" Eve...

I absolutely love the ability to customise the Facts tab to display whatever details needed using the Fact Definition Summary Template! That will make all the difference, and I've always wished for a Source Icon in the More field. I will explore this some more, and will probably have more questions ...

I agree with most every point you both made - which is the reason for my post, in that I was noticing my slow drift away from how I suspected FH was suppose to be done. Fortunately, I have been applying source citations for the document (events) and to all the other facts represented in them in the ...

I have noticed over the last few years that I have slowly evolved in the manner that I'm entering my Facts. In the beginning, I would enter the Event such as Birth, Marriage or Military Service, and also provide the sources for each of these. Many of these Events have numerous sources, such as a Mar...