* Recording a Military Death

[jbtapscott]

Within TMG I had a number of family members who died "in action" during WW1 and used a tag "MilCasualty" to reflect this, followed by a Burial tag to hold the war cemetary details. I tried a similar tack in FH for the death but FH is showing (on reports and the Records window) that the persons dates are "b.1895,bur.1918", although I had recorded full dates for both the death and burial. (I downloaded the Military 2 Fact Set but that does not include a Military Death fact, so I created a Custom one).

Would it be right to say that FH only "recognises" the Death Event as the holder of death data, or have I missed a setting somewhere?. I can't see anything in the FH Help / FHUG KnowledgeBase on the subject, so advices would be appreciated. Thanks

[tatewise]

Yes Brent, for life dates FH will only recognise the Standard GEDCOM events for Birth, Baptism, Christening, Marriage, Divorce, Death, Burial & Cremation.

I don't think there is any mechanism for making Custom facts act as an alternative for one of those Standard events.

[jbtapscott]

Thanks Mike - thought that may be the case so will change the tags in TMG before the final import.

[Jane]

You use Mike's Change any Fact Tag plugin to change them over as an alternate to doing so in TMG.

[jbtapscott]

Thanks Jane - I've used that plugin a couple of times (very successfully) but as I am still "tinkering" and keep running new TMG Exports / FH Imports as I learn different things, I want to make as many data changes in TMG as possible (without upsetting that applications output) so that I can slowly reduce my list of pre/post data changes before the final cutover to FH.