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Got it Mark, thank you so much for pointing that out!

Thanks Nick! That makes sense. I am familiar with converting HEX, OCT, DEC, Binary back and forth - LOL... but I had that class in college many, many, many moons ago. I haven't had to use HEX in awhile.... I'm retired now and haven't been programming much, it's amazing how much info just leaves the ...

Thanks Mike! Since I have your ear :D would it be possible to add an option to enable/disable the "doAssess" function in your Export GEDFILE plugin (for TNG)? I'm still using it to convert FH to TNG, but since I plan to start using the advanced settings for citation assessments, I'd like t...

Does anyone have a list (or know where such a list resides) of all possible values for the "_QUAY" and what they mean? When I export to GEDCOM natively (i.e., not via Mike Tate's excellent "Export GEDCOM File" plugin), I get values in the _QUAY as HEX values (the following is tes...

Hello, I was looking at my .ged file from Family Historian v.7.0.17.1 and noticed that my newly-added custom attribute on family records is being saved as "_ATTR" (rather than the newer "FACT" element which was a GEDCOM 5.5.1 change.) Since the Individual records have FACT for th...

Thank you tatewise for your answer. Yes, I have backups of backups of backups, and if all else fails, I can always get my GEDCOM off of my website. I did figure out though that this doesn't happen if I just stick to using the GEDCOM file in FH, and not make a "project." Perhaps that will c...

Hello! I just upgraded to Family Historian 7 and must say WOW!! This is a fabulous upgrade! I've opened my GEDCOM file from Family Historian 6.2 into a new Family Historian 7 project, and all went well (so far) except for my multimedia objects. I noticed that all of my multimedia objects that were &...

Will a digital (PDF or Kindle) version of this book be for sale at some point?

Thanks Mike. Do you know why FH decided to use UTF-16 rather than UTF-8? I did notice the file size doubled, and it takes a lot longer to "save" the file in FH now, especially when auto-save is enabled. Just wondering what the advantages are of UTF-16 over UTF-8 for Family Historian files.

Wow, thanks Mike!! Using UTF-8 WITH the BOM made the difference -- now it displays the characters as desired. Thanks so much for your help! In the early days of UTF-8, the BOM gave us problems in some of our programs where I work, so I've always just shy'ed away from using it. Now I see that some pr...

Hello, After I recently upgraded to the new version of FH, I realized that it is now saving the GEDCOM file in UTF-16 (which includes the Bite Order Mark at the top of the file). My other applications can't use UTF-16, so now I have to export my file as UTF-8 (without BOM) from FH, which I didn't ha...

I know #417 asks for a source on multimedia, but it's also asking to put a PLACE on multimedia as well. To me, that is two different wish list items, as one is GEDCOM-compliant, and the other is not. I would like to see either #417 be split into two items or add another wish list item specifically f...

Jane,
Thanks so much for your help on this -- it works perfectly!
Kathy

I've made a custom Fact Query in FH 4.1.2, and would like to list the Relationship of the Wife (or Husband) of each record returned. I've tried this as the expression:  =Relationship(FileRoot(),%FACT.WIFE%,TEXT,1) But it returns the error: 'The expression entered is not recognised as a valid functio...

Aha! Thanks so much Jane! [grin] That works beautifully.

I'd like to display the Husband's Individual RecordID (as well as his Wife's) within a 'Family' Query. As =RecordID() returns the FamilyID, I've tried things like %FAM.HUSB>RecordID()%, but that's not valid. I've tried %FAM.HUSB>RFN%, REFN%, and RIN%, none of which display the actual RecordID. What ...

I would like to have the ability to add more 'roles' in an event within a source citation. Currently, the only values allowed are Child, Husband, Wife, Mother, Father, or Spouse. But according to the GEDCOM 5.5 Standard (http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~pmcbride/gedcom/55gcch2.htm#ROLE_IN_EVENT), addi...

I would like to see either a 'favorites' or a user-defined shortcut assignment to commonly-used queries or reports.

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