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The pilcrow sign ¶ represents a newline character.
It is often seen in text editors such as Microsoft Word to show where a newline appears, but in Word its display can be switched on and off.
The ¶ will not be visible in the FH reports, but the following text will start on a new line.

... a Date Period BTW <date> AND <date> ... We're into personal preferences - or perhaps personal understandings - here. For whatever reason, I've always interpreted "BTW <date> AND <date>" to be most appropriate to a single-day (or nearly so) event occurring between those 2 events. It's ...

Instead of a Date Range FRM <date> TO <date> you can use a Date Period BTW <date> AND <date> Then the sentence would say "Between <date> and <date> he lived...". The dates can be just years if you wish. i.e. On particular dates between those two dates, he lived at the address. That fits th...

You don't necessarily need to create a custom fact for every document you discover. Review the rental data and decide what facts it supplies. Does it identify an address and date where the person lived? If so then use a Residence fact. The Source Citation transcript Text From Source can include rent...

Gary, you have complete control over what is merged, retained, or deleted ~ fact by fact, citation by citation, etc...

Why not experiment with the Family Historian Sample Project?
Create a duplicate person and then use Edit > Merge Record...

I suggest he joins FHUG and posts the problem himself. He will likely need our help sooner or later! Then we can ask him to post screenshots which will clarify the situation. If he really has full backups then simply restore them. As Jane says, a possible explanation is that he has changed the File ...

It may help to know his mother's maiden name if you have it.
With an unusual surname like that it may be transcribed wrongly.
His birth may have been registered late in Q1 1865.

e.g.
BARLOW, PETER GRO Reference: 1865 Q1 in BURY LANCASHIRE Volume 08C Page 459 Mother: LORD

Please explain in more detail exactly what sequence of actions/commands lead up to that error message.
Does the error arise every time that sequence of commands is used?

Please confirm that in the FH Project Window the Location: is G:

It is the Spouse/Partner Family links that matter, not the Marriage event facts.
i.e.
The number of Spouse tab entries in the Property Box, Main tab.
The number of Spouse family items in the Property Box, All tab.

The number of Marriage event facts does not matter.

Yes, I would also suggest using the error(...) function.

John, I think you have overlooked Lorna's correction to my posting and some of the later discussions. You can override the left-right sort precedence by clicking column headings in reverse of desired sort order. However, those sort precedence rules only apply when you change the primary sort column....

Instead of splitting out hundreds of different pages, you can do as I suggested.
Link the Research Note to the lumped Source record and add the Page numbers as text alongside.

In short, it is not possible because links can only be made to records (Individuals, Families, Sources, etc.) and Citations are not records but simply a component field. The best you can do is describe the specific Citation in terms of its associations to a Source record and whatever it is cited aga...

Two things struck me about your screenshot. The Current Project: Master is not listed in Family Historian Projects. But what was its path as shown in Tools > Preferences > Startup > Default Startup File: The non-default Location: E:\OneDrive\FamilyHistorian Projects has no space between Family &...

... the sort order of Source Records displayed in the records window, defines how they are presented when choosing a new or existing source. Typically that applies to any record type when presented in a select record dialogue but the order can be overridden by sorting on any column in the select re...

There is a keyboard shortcut for the View > Record Links... command (as there is for most commands).
It is ALT + V + L i.e. the underlined letters in the menu command preceded by the ALT key.

The Wish List requests similar quick methods.

... Query or Record Window displays, as the latter are fully dynamic and reflect changes in the underlying data, while the former are largely static. As a result, you could be sorting on obsolete data, which I’m not sure is logical. In my experience Query/Plugin Result Sets do reflect underlying da...

Ah! The links are from an Individual record to a Research Note record. It is not possible to identify those links in the columns of the Research Note tab. To discover such links, you must use the View > Record Links... command or the Where Used Record Links plugin. See the FHUG Knowledge Base Findin...

I suspect what you requested is not possible, but a few more details will help confirm that. How many Individual records are linked to each Research Note? Are the record links inside a rich text table? Is there a keyword/label before the record link? I am thinking that perhaps =GetLabelledText(%_RNO...

I would expect a Wish List item to request that sorting of all multiple row & column lists be fully consistent.
Then all Records Window tabs, Query & Plugin Result Sets, Named Lists, etc, would all behave similarly.
How CP achieve that is their challenge.

Yes Lorna, you may be correct. I'd forgotten about that wrinkle!

That is another difference compared with Query Result Sets which have no such memory.

This is another unfortunate example of inconsistencies in related functions in FH.

The column sort rules for the Records Window and Query Result Sets are not defined anywhere in the Help. Furthermore, they are not consistent with each other. In the Records Window, the rows can be sorted primarily on any column by clicking its header. If that column has identical row values the row...

Hi Steve.
In the FHUG Knowledge Base you will find a wealth of advice and tutorials on FH, AS, and related topics.
For AS see Ancestral Sources which towards the end has a link to Ancestral Sources Videos.

The installation process for FH v7 is different from all earlier versions. There is no licence key. You use an online Account with Calico Pie. In the article Nick refers to, only the Version 7 licence problems section is relevant. In FH v7 on your Windows laptop use Help > About Family Historian... ...

Please clarify exactly what fields you propose should hold those values in Essential Templated Sources. i.e. Are you talking about the Source record Title, or citation Footnote, or specific fields? Please recognise that: The Essentials Civil Registration Index only has one 'lumped' Source record per...