Editing Custom Ids

David_Lewis · Post by **David_Lewis** » 04 Dec 2010 13:32

Ive been using Family Historian to plot the descendents of the Electress Sofia,

Ive been using the custom Id and then custom queries to sort the descendendants into a list of persons eligible to succeed to the british throne.

Basicaly Ive started of by giving Sofia a custom ID of 1 and then her children IDs of 1.1 and 1.2 and their children idS OF 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.21, 1,22, 1.23 ETC, male descendants always coming before females

This has worked really well , and by using various flags for I've been able to identify those who are ineligible to suceed. I have also recorded by using flags those descendents who are twins and triplets.

Id like to now like to extend the data back to earlier descendents of James the 1st so that I can plot the jacobite line of succession

This will involve some some renumbering. so that Sophia Instead of being 1 would be 1.4.13 amd all her descendents would have the same prefix.

Is there then an easy way of changing all the current Custom Ids i.e some sort of find 1. and replace with 1.4.13.

many thanks.

ID:4887

Post by **tatewise** » 04 Dec 2010 15:21

Have you looked at Ahnentafel numbers?
Google Ahnentafel for more details.
FH Reports and Functions support Ahnentafel numbers.
Also the AhnentafelNumber() function can be used to display the Ahnentafel Number in the Individual Property Box caption/title at the top.

Alternatively, you could edit your GEDCOM file with a text editor.
e.g.
Make sure you preserve a backup copy of your .ged file.
Open the .ged file with a simple text editor such as Notepad.
Replace all instances of 1 REFN 1. with 1 REFN 1.4.13. and save the results.
Double check that the saved file type is .ged and not .txt.

David_Lewis · Post by **David_Lewis** » 11 Dec 2010 11:33

Sorry for the delay in respondinf but have been unwell , much better now.

Many thanks for pointing the way.

I made a copy of my gedcom file by saving it to another name and then opened that uop in MSword. It was fairly easy to spot where the custom ID was stored and its format. A quick find and replace and then saving the file did the trick.

I opened up the new file in Family Historian and everything seems OK.

Again Many thanks

David_Lewis · Post by **David_Lewis** » 17 Dec 2010 22:36

I wrote 'Sorry for the delay in responding but have been unwell , much better now. ' at 11:33 on Sat 11th Dec

Spoke too soon, 3 hours later my daughter took me to the local hospital cause I had turned yellow!.

Spent next 5 days in hospital with gallstone issues.

Back home now though1

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