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- 20 Dec 2023 12:20
- Forum: Diagrams & Charts
- Topic: Selection of records for charts
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1437
Re: Selection of records for charts
I like it with flipped orientation more, but there is the page boundary avoidance bug. I haven't tested that bug myself but I note that Mike said it only afftects an Everyone diagram. For your purposes an Ancestors Diagram (or an All Relatives diagram) might be sufficient. If you are only displayin...
- 19 Dec 2023 15:56
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: splitting a tree
- Replies: 3
- Views: 918
Re: splitting a tree
EDIT: Mike and I replied at the same time, with different suggestions. I think my method is quicker, but either will work. It depends whether you want to preseve the Edward I group as a separate pool in the same project or as a separate project. You need to choose the earliest ancestor(s) you do wan...
- 18 Dec 2023 11:47
- Forum: Diagrams & Charts
- Topic: Selection of records for charts
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1437
Re: Selection of records for charts
As you probably know, the How Related tool offers a View Report option which summarises the chain of relationships between two selected individuals. However this report contains only the bare outline. To see more details you would need to use an Individual Summary report or an Individual Narrative r...
- 17 Dec 2023 11:31
- Forum: Diagrams & Charts
- Topic: Selection of records for charts
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1437
Re: Selection of records for charts
It is not possible to create a diagram from a predefined list of records, but there are various techniques which can be used to customise a diagram to limit the number of records it displays. Click the expansion button above an Ancestor box or below a Descendant box to hide the entire branch above/b...
- 16 Dec 2023 21:29
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Queries - AND vs OR for multiple expressions
- Replies: 4
- Views: 465
Re: Queries - AND vs OR for multiple expressions
Your first line is correct, and selects all the individuals called Sarah. Each row in the query operates on the set which was left after the previous operation. So working on that list, your second line then needs to remove any of those people who were not born in 1840, so you need Exclude unless %I...
- 16 Dec 2023 00:01
- Forum: Closed Wish List Requests
- Topic: [Wish List Item 635] Better ways to find where records are used
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1952
Re: Better ways to find where records are used
Mike, I can add a 6th item to your list of current ways to find where records are used. For Media records there is a Links tab in the Property box, which does what the name implies. Of your three suggested solutions I think I would favour the first, adding a Where Used button to each Property box. T...
- 14 Dec 2023 20:09
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: How to Record 1921 Census Employment
- Replies: 15
- Views: 912
Re: How to Record 1921 Census Employment
.... I split the information in the third column into the Address field and the Place field for the occupation. I have just remembered that there are some cases where I don't do this but instead record this information in the note field after the employer's name. For example if someone says they ar...
- 13 Dec 2023 14:40
- Forum: Closed Wish List Requests
- Topic: [Wish List Item 628] Save Diagram As Custom Dialogue
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6692
Re: Save Diagram As Custom Dialogue
That looks good.
- 13 Dec 2023 14:26
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: How to Record 1921 Census Employment
- Replies: 15
- Views: 912
Re: How to Record 1921 Census Employment
Lorna, what is your preferred option when encountering the "Out of Work" field in 1921? I'm currently recording this as, for example, "Miner (Hewer) (Out of Work)", but I wondered if there's a better way? I do the same. It is an indication of what the person's trade/skill was an...
- 13 Dec 2023 11:52
- Forum: Closed Wish List Requests
- Topic: [Already Implemented] Enhance right click context menu in 'How Related' diagrams
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1976
Re: Enhance right click context menu in 'How Related' diagrams
I wouldn’t raise any objection but to be honest I’m not convinced this is a necessary enhancement. You don’t need to go via Diagram > Family Connection Mapper. At present when you view any diagram (not just a How Related diagram) the Family Connection Mapper icon appears in the main toolbar near the...
- 12 Dec 2023 20:36
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: How to Record 1921 Census Employment
- Replies: 15
- Views: 912
Re: How to Record 1921 Census Employment
There were, as you said in your first post, all sorts of responses entered in all three columns and the confusion often resulted in repetition. For example the name of the employer was sometimes entered in both the Employment column (correct) and the Place of Work column (incorrect). But there was u...
- 08 Dec 2023 15:38
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Importing new couple into an existing diagram.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 310
Re: Importing new couple into an existing diagram.
In addition to Mike’s questions, when you say you have ‘failed to include’ a generation, and you need to ‘insert’ them, do you mean you have skipped a generation so that someone has been linked directly to their grandparents as if they were their parents?
- 08 Dec 2023 10:48
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Relationship Pool and Fact Witnesses
- Replies: 10
- Views: 517
Re: Relationship Pool and Fact Witnesses
Don't put it all in the Expression field. You need to split it up like this:
- 08 Dec 2023 10:32
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Married surname in Individual Records List (FH7)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 610
Re: Married surname in Individual Records List (FH7)
Right-click on anywhere in the list and select Configure Columns. In the Configure Columns window scroll down to the bottom of the list on the left hand side and select <other>, then click the > symbol in the centre. Enter a heading ‘Spouse’ and in the expression field put INDI.~SPOU>NAME:SURNAME. C...
- 03 Dec 2023 12:01
- Forum: Diagrams & Charts
- Topic: Keeping generations on one line
- Replies: 2
- Views: 453
Re: Keeping generations on one line
The default style for an All Relatives diagram in a top-down orientation has the direct Ancestors’ boxes further down than their siblings’ boxes. This is so that the lines linking them to their position among their siblings are clearly visible and don’t cross over other lines. However there is a ‘fl...
- 01 Dec 2023 16:27
- Forum: Diagrams & Charts
- Topic: Quality of JPEG pictures of family tree
- Replies: 2
- Views: 459
Re: Quality of JPEG pictures of family tree
For the best quality, use Diagram > Save Diagram As > PDF file . Then use the second option, to Adjust PDF File Page Size so that Diagram fits into One Page. When you view the PDF file you can use the +/- buttons to zoom in and use the scroll bars to move around. This is not quite as easy as zooming...
- 27 Nov 2023 12:41
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Half cousins
- Replies: 5
- Views: 435
Re: Half cousins
My 4 x great grandfather is related to me and presumably that can be said for the 1st wife's children? Yes, but they are not as closely related to you as the second wife's children. You share more DNA with the children of the second wife, from whom you are descended, than with the children of the f...
- 27 Nov 2023 10:51
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Half cousins
- Replies: 5
- Views: 435
Re: Half cousins
It's correct. A child from his first marriage and a child from his second marriage will be half-siblings (because they have only one parent in common). So there will always be a 'half' relationship between their descendants. I assume you are descended from his second wife, which is why the children ...
- 26 Nov 2023 11:34
- Forum: Sources, Citations & Repositories
- Topic: Ancestry profile, source or fact
- Replies: 9
- Views: 723
Re: Ancestry profile, source or fact
In the case of someone’s own tree and photos on Ancestry, or their posts on Facebook, your initial ‘source’ of the information is the other person. Unless you have verified the information yourself you are relying on their own personal knowledge or their own research. Even in the case of a photo, yo...
- 26 Nov 2023 10:54
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Is there an easier way to use merge
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1458
Re: Is there an easier way to use merge
I have looked for a Plugin that might help me eliminate (delete) <No Title> records, but have not found one if it exists. You don’t need a plugin for that. Just go to Records window > Media tab and click the heading of the first column to sort them into alphabetical order, if they are not already. ...
- 23 Nov 2023 14:59
- Forum: Importing
- Topic: Switching tips? (RM->FH)
- Replies: 37
- Views: 5655
Re: Switching tips? (RM->FH)
...how does one handle "Occupation" attributes without resorting to specifying a date, which is typically something reserved for events? Attributes can have dates. The difference between attributes and events (in FH) is that attributes have an additonal field for the value , which events ...
- 21 Nov 2023 11:36
- Forum: Diagrams & Charts
- Topic: Hiding Photos of Documents
- Replies: 6
- Views: 636
Re: Hiding Photos of Documents
Ah! So the issue you have seen with images of ducuments appearing in diagrams is a sign of an underlying problem. Sadly Ancestry is not much help when it comes to handling sources other than its own. So instead of creating new sources in Ancestry I suggest creating the new sources in FH, which would...
- 20 Nov 2023 20:47
- Forum: Diagrams & Charts
- Topic: Hiding Photos of Documents
- Replies: 6
- Views: 636
Re: Hiding Photos of Documents
It is normally recommended that only photos of the person are linked directly to the whole record for individual. Images of documents are linked to Source records and/or to the specific facts they support. Some documents can be a source for several different facts. For example a marriage certificate...
- 20 Nov 2023 13:20
- Forum: Wish List Requests On Hold
- Topic: On Hold until 21 Feb 2025: Table auto-sizing
- Replies: 34
- Views: 4361
Re: Table auto-sizing
Not sure it's documented anywhere -- I assumed it was there form day 1, because I'm used to it from MS Word. CP have to draw the line somewhere, when deciding what to document. For example I don't think it's documented anywhere (in FH) that you can adjust column widths by hovering the mouse over th...
- 15 Nov 2023 11:49
- Forum: Sources, Citations & Repositories
- Topic: Source Splitting for Electoral Roll
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1147
Re: Source Splitting for Electoral Roll
I have moved this topic from the Media forum to the Sources, Ctations & Repositories forum where it seems more appropriate.