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In the Report Options > Format tab at the bottom centre there is an option to choose the date format (long, compact, or various types of abbreviation). However if you want complete control over the presence or absence of a prefix you need to qualify the date code with a colon followed by the qualifi...

I don’t think it is possible to access that sentence code directly, and I agree the layout is not ideal. If you change the Report Options to exclude Spouse Event/Attributes the sentence does behave as you want, i.e. it starts a new paragraph, and both names are given in full. However if you want the...

I’ve moved this topic from the ‘Installing, Migrating and Upgrading’ forum to the Importing forum, as the issue relates to importing from another program.

Just to add to Mike's reply: You can show the Custom ID field in the Main tab of the Property box, to make it easy to enter a custom ID for a new individual. Click the cog wheel icon in the Property Box toolbar and then select Customize Property Box. Now select Custom ID from the list in the left ha...

A completely different approach would be to add a Short Title field to the Source template (Generic Sources always have this field anyway, and I make a lot of use of it). In this field enter your preferred title for sorting. Then use Tools> Preferences > Records Window and tick the option to Use Sho...

John, you must have added the paragraph break yourself in the past, because it is not part of the default sentence template. If you remove it again you may find the narrative report is less readable because, as Adrian has explained, all the sentences will be in the same paragraph. If you want to rem...

John, I have moved this to the General forum because it is not about Sources, Citations and Repositories. Please be more specific. How many parts, or words, do you mean by ‘the first parts’? (And why do you want to remove them? You will probably end up with something which is not a grammatical sente...

A.S. typically generates a number of facts for each person and the time taken in finding and fixing the incorrect records in a census can be pretty high. If you create a new individual, or allow AS to ceate one, and you subsequently decide this individual is the same as another in your file you can...

I can find records of his older sister but not younger siblings. Sister was registered as born in Holborn in 1863. I don’t know if you are aware, but there were actually two older sisters, both called Maria. Both were registered in Holborn district and the mother ‘s maiden name was Williams in both...

Teresa, I see you are using a text scheme in which no marriage details or spouse names are included. This is why the extra boxes look odd. Normally with One box per marriage selected in the diagram options the extra boxes would display the name of the ‘extra’ spouse and the corresponding marriage de...

Yes, that would probably be the smoothest workflow.

I think you may have two marriage events for those people, i.e. they are married twice to the same person. And in Diagram Options > General tab > Spouse display options do you have ‘one box per marriage’ selected? That would generate a box for the second marriage, with the wavy line linking the boxes.

I’m not sure why you are finding you get two copies of the original and two copies of the edited version. Do you mean you used the copy and paste buttons in the 'Sources for' pane attached to the Property Box ? (numbers 1 & 2 illustrated below) Use copy on the original citation and paste on the ...

In the Records Window, ..... the rows are sorted on a primary column and then sorted in groups from left to right columns. It has always been my understanding that in the Records window the last three sorts are ‘remembered’, so that if a column has identical row values the row subsets are sorted ac...

Hello Steve, welcome to FHUG. On the media tab of the individuals' Property Box you will see a column headed Pref. This shows the preferred order for the pictures to be displayed. To swap the priority of the photos select the one you want to place first and use the black arrow in the toolbar to chan...

You need to copy your Family Historian Projects folder from your old laptop to the new one. If you have made any customisations to your settings in the program you will also need to copy those across, using one of the Backup and Restore plugins. This article in the Knowledge Base covers the full mig...

The only explanation I can think of is that when you renamed the media files you actually created copies with the new names, leaving the old files in place. Can you confirm that the folder where the files are held now contains only the ones with the ‘Census’ name? When you used the Search and Replac...

I believe that the format David Childs quoted for the citation is actually the Strathclyde format for citing an entry in the birth registration index. ... Actually, it's not, it is from the template Civil Registration Certificate . .... ..... Converting my 5,000 odd source records from Generics to ...

I believe that the format DavidChilds quoted for the citation is actually the Strathclyde format for citing an entry in the birth registration index. An entry in the births index should be recorded using the Civil Registration Index template. You will find that it produces a footnote in exactly the ...

You could create a copy of your master Project and delete the maternal line of ancestors. Then the report will only include the paternal line. A simple option is of course to Root the report on your Father, or temporarily unlink your Mother from her parents while you produce the report. Both of the...

Where was the marriage? In any part of the UK in 1874 there should have been witnesses recorded. Scottish marriage records include the mother’s name but other regions of the UK recorded only the father. As you have both the father’s and the mother’s name you could try searching for a baptism record....

You say you have his marriage certificate. Does it include his father’s name and occupation? If so, that might help to identify him in earlier censuses when he would have been about 10 (1861) and 20 (1871). You might be able to find him in a household with his father. (Of course you need to bear in ...

I've moved this to the Programming Technicalities sub-forum.

Ken, I have moved this topic from the Diagrams and Charts forum to the Reports, Books and Websites forum where you asked your other question (about how to create the Descendant Outline report).

I felt that Monumental Inscriptions was the best name for this as it was a broader term. Does this seem reasonable? Yes. Keep it broad. It could even be used for ‘Blue Plaques’ (on a building where someone lived) or inscriptions on a park bench. Which date do you think the template creator envisage...