Family Historian User Group

tatewise wrote: ↑25 Nov 2023 12:40 ... as long as there is a Month name involved it should not get messy. ...

That would seem a good starting point.

... Yes, I was very surprised that FH does not recognise the dashes and it would be great if this could be incorporated in a future release. One might think it's easy to recognise 1-Feb-1878 as "1 Feb 1878" (no dashes in the actual date.) However, 10-1800 is interpreted as "frm 0010 ...

... Not being a techy, I don't know why FH made that programming decision. ... Probably because it was a darn sight easier that way. Maybe.... I'm guessing that Calico Pie have one version of the report held in memory for subsequent output in the different formats. I'd also guess that all(?) of the...

... It's a better use of my time to write a good specific sentence in a Note field when it's needed than it is to wrestle with arcane sentence templates that will never produce a result as good. Also agreed. Just in case anyone hasn't seen this before, I will often replace the generated sentence fo...

So Adrian, presumably you are happy with Fact Witnesses not being listed in their own Property Box and Reports? Yup. When I use Name-Only witnesses, it's precisely because I don't want them clogging up property boxes, etc. I really don't want the assorted rectors of Nantwich (e.g.) appearing as ind...

If (big if) the Fact Witnesses are name only, then I alter the witnesses' name to be a description, e.g. instead of "Paul Simon" as a name, I enter a "name" of "Paul Simon, plumber of Antwerp".

Sorry if you have Witnesses as Individuals, or a mix of the two types.

interrogate each one individually using View > Record Links to see from where the note was created Oh. :o I didn't even realise there was an invisible link back to where it was created from! I always add the person's name in the text of the note (there might be several people, after all) and Add Li...

... I can't think of a good reason why someone starting a topic wouldn't want to be notified of replies ... I can - I just don't work like that. I always logon to FHUG every day (well, Christmas Day aside) and my link takes me straight to the list of unread topics. So I really don't want notificati...

I have created a custom note fact with only two fields, the date and text. ... Me too. I have a Custom Event fact with only two fields required - Date and Note . It's named and labelled as " Dated note ", which suggests my line of thought - a note to appear in someone's timeline. I use na...

... particularly useful for users of Evidence Explained style, due to the unpredictable structure of the citations and the importance of formatting in that methodology ... My only thought is that for someone with my previously restricted understanding of EE styles, they might fall into the same tra...

Re "Form" generic sources. Firstly I hope that I'm using the terminology in the same way as others. I am cautiously assuming that a free form generic source would have 4 specific items - short title, bibliography entry (to also serve as the long title?), initial footnote and subsequent foo...

... Which is why EE-style citations are non-deterministic. Until you're eyeballing a source, and have gone through the thinking, you don't know what the structure of your citation will be. Often, if you're lucky, it will fit one of the existing models. But if you're dealing with a website that's im...

Re "non-deterministic" I'm familiar with its use in quantum theory - or as familiar as any amateur ever is. I believe that I understand its use elsewhere. But, given that the formats in EE! are all laid down in that book, I struggle to understand its applicability to ESM's formats. I can i...

KFN wrote: ↑01 Nov 2023 22:34..In database terms we call this a “bill of materials”, ...

Thanks - I'd not heard that phrase (in that context).

KFN wrote: ↑01 Nov 2023 22:34.. It is less SQL friendly than the current approach for sources.

Err - yes. I can imagine.

... Should GEDCOM in the future support lumpers better, this is a discussion that the GEDCOM design team has had and at present does not have a solution for supporting both lumped and split sources in the same file and still follow good design principles. Philosophy: Maybe a more fruitful approach ...

... We know a lot about how FH behaves with UIDs because some of us have been using them for a considerable time - but we have to remember to manually generate them using the existing menu option whenever we have added new individuals and we are going to do a process that relies on them. All Mark i...

... I should know better by now to describe this as a simple addition. We just can’t stop ourselves analysing it to death… :) But seriously, doesn't that say something about what on earth the UniqueID implies for FH's own processing? As in - we don't actually know? So at the very least, this propos...

I'm a touch concerned that we are discussing settings for when Auto-Generation of UniqueId should / could be switched on, without any definition of what this UnqueId is, or how it behaves (or might behave) - so far as I can see and please correct me if I'm wrong (and yes, I have read that part of th...

According to the GEDCOM Standard (which may or may not have relevance to any other software you are looking at) RELIGIOUS_AFFILIATION:= {Size=1:90} A name of the religion with which this person, event, or record was affiliated. Hmm - "person, event, or record" covers all the bases, I think...

... Think I might even use it myself to mark Catholic and non-conformist baptisms... 😊 Indeed... Looking at the GEDCOM specification (considered A Bad Idea by some), Religious Affiliation is part of the Event_Detail structure, which means it's also part of all the individual events, attributes and ...

If you go to the All Tab for that person's property window, and right-click the baptism fact, you will see a surprisingly long list of items that can be added to the baptism event. One of them is " Religious Affiliation ". This will then be visible from the All Tab, of course, but can be a...

... My own preference is for the date entry format to be precise/constrained. Otherwise, where do we draw the line? ... I tend to agree. From the OP's viewpoint it seems a bit mean to reject a (presumably) simple and helpful request, but from Calico Pie's viewpoint they could end up with a never-en...

There have been no supporting responses to the New Wish List Request from anyone who contributed to this thread, not even from John Elvin who originally proposed the drop-list option! Without any positive feedback a Wish List entry will not get created. Procedurally (and personally), I'm not sure w...

I'm not sure we want to complicate the request by adding the preservation of the column width. Isn't this already covered by other requests about preserving windows layouts? Strictly speaking, I'm guessing that it is. However, given that I typically have ranges like "frm 17 Jul 1915 to 11 Nov ...

... To quote from the National Archives: The information was used to produce identity cards and, once rationing was introduced in January 1940, to issue ration books. ... Oh yes - how could I forget ration books? Well, I don't remember them personally, you understand. I'm not quite that old. I have...