Family Historian User Group

I raised a ticket a couple of days ago and had the acknowledgement. I suspect it will be while before we hear anything and hopefully Calico Pie have realised that there are a number of issues with reporting and the credibility of FH is being damaged.

My high spec laptop after 40 minutes finally produced a pdf for my 470 page report, a whopping 520mb. Creating the same report via rtf and Word produces a pdf of 5mb, about 1%, the same ratio as I previously observed. I agree with the conclusion that something is broken in FH7 but it maybe in part t...

Had a go at creating a much larger report, 470 pages and gave up with pdf production after 30 minutes. rtf production went quite quickly, resultant pdf from Word was 5.5 Mb. I did notice via Task manager that disk read/write was running solidly at 100% all of the time, and in fact 15 minutes later i...

Just tried a few examples, no issues generating pdfs other than the known <para><br> issues. But a very large pdf file created for 13 pages with one small image, 15mb. Saved the same report as a rft file, loaded into Word, saved as a pdf, size 0.15Mb which about what I would expect, i.e.1% of the FH...

Like many things FH provides facilities for you to do what suits your purpose. I use the Citation Date to record the date I entered the information because the date of the event is recorded in the Event and it provides me with an audit trail. Also, I believe you don't actually know the date of many ...

Just out of interest I used to use Unknown but I have switched to _____ (5 underscores). I don't think there is a perfect answer, do what suits you best and be consistent.

There are two ways to deal with this after making a back-up in case it goes wrong. 1 If the two spouses have the same ID then right click on one of them and Unlink , you may find that the remaining spuuse remains with two entries, if so repeat the process for that one as well. 2 If they have differe...

I created a ticket for this on the day FH7 was released, but the more who do so will add to the impetus for Calico Pie to do something. I also had email exchange with them yesterday stressing how important I thought this was.

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One thing that you need to remember is that FH7 makes changes to the Gedcom such that it is 'unreadable' by FH6 . I tried this out of interest and when opened by FH6 whilst seeming OK there were many corruptions of the data. If you want both they have to be completely independent but the files are n...

Yup, that is how I see it. Which is why the GRO site is so helpful. GRO also gives mother's maiden names for births back to 1837 (unless they were illegitimate in which case it is often blank or the mother's surname) and ages for deaths which are not on the indexes until much later.

Full names are recorded on birth certificates and in GROs records, initials were probably used in the index pages for brevity.

Mike,

Thanks for that, just tried and indeed it does which is good to know. It seems a bit bizarre as the mothers maiden name is available on the index pages up to 2006ish on Ancestry and FMP.

1920-1934 births are a welcome addition, but every one I have looked at thus far doesn't have the mother's maiden name, an unfortunate omission but I'm sure GRO will rectify that soon. It is great for getting middle names though and the mother's maiden name can be got from the indexes

Here here! and a merry Christmas (if you can) to everyone

Just out of interest I run the Show Project Statistics Plugin every month and a couple of queries checking Living Flag still set for deceased people and vice versa. The plugin is good as it detects a wide range of possible errors and the queries occasionally highlight the odd data entry error. I als...

Well aware of that, I often drag place names on to the map. As they say, you learn something everyday.

Yes, achieved what I wanted to do by other routes.

Blow me, I never knew that.

I think you missed my point of trying let people know it is now much quicker in FH7 it is to zoom in on a map. If you create a place without a georeference you will get something like this. Capture.jpg In FH6 I was then dragging the map so the marker was in line with the cross then using the slider ...

I am very pleased with many of the improvements in FH7, especially as I have now got used to a slightly different way of working with the citation window. Just in case anyone is not aware there is a very helpful improvement on the map function. In FH6 I found if I entered a place without a georefere...

I can't answer your query about why new records were created, I use Search and Replace a lot and have never had that problem. However, I thought I would just mention that Essex, East, England is not correct. I assume you were thinking of East Anglia, but that is not used in place names as it is not ...

Mike,

Thank you all this work is much appreciated. It is not the end of the world so no need to rush.

Mike, I realise a lot of effort is being made by yourself and other skilled people to amend plugins for V7, but I was just wondering when the Search and Replace plugin is likely to be ready as I make extensive use of it. Also, you kindly made available a Format Dates in Sentences plugin which makes ...

I have had a reply from Calicoe Pie and the issue has been passed to the developers.