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Surname Cloud

Posted: 04 May 2022 21:25
by MarionWoolgar
I would like to create a Surname Cloud from data in a Project within Family Historian 6, because I think it would be a most useful graphic to place on my web site. Does anyone know how to create it, please? I assume what I need to do is to create is a list of the surnames within a particular project and the frequency in which they occur. That could then be fed into another program to create the Surname Cloud. But I don't know how to do it! Any suggestions, please?

Marion Woolgar
Bognor Regis, West Sussex

Re: Surname Cloud

Posted: 04 May 2022 21:31
by tatewise
Marion, I've moved this to the FH General Usage Forum because it is not a Research topic.

There are two plugins in the Plugin Store that gives counts of Surnames:
Surname Summary Report
Top 20 Surnames in Bar Chart Format

I'm not sure about the next step of forming a webpage surname cloud.

Re: Surname Cloud

Posted: 04 May 2022 21:56
by davidf
Lots of Word Cloud generators on the web
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffsb&q=word+c ... ree&ia=web
I picked one, copied the first name column from a query and pasted it in!
word-cloud.png
First Name Word Cloud
word-cloud.png (233.74 KiB) Viewed 1467 times
From https://www.freewordcloudgenerator.com/ ... ewordcloud

Re: Surname Cloud

Posted: 04 May 2022 21:57
by MarionWoolgar
Many thanks, Mike. Your suggestion has given me a good start.

Re: Surname Cloud

Posted: 04 May 2022 22:04
by MarionWoolgar
Thank you very much David, that is certainly the type of thing that I was looking for.

Re: Surname Cloud

Posted: 05 May 2022 06:27
by Valkrider
@Jane had a little plugin that did this some time ago that was only published here in the forum. A forum search should turn it up.

Re: Surname Cloud

Posted: 05 May 2022 09:14
by tatewise
That old plugin is in the Word Cloud Experiments (11002) posting but it does not run without some minor edits.
However, it relies on http://www.wordle.net/compose which no longer seems to exist.