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by jimlad68
22 Feb 2024 11:46
Forum: Wish List Requests On Hold
Topic: [On Hold until 21 Feb 2025] Hotkey to hide boxes in charts/diagrams
Replies: 16
Views: 6256

Re: [On Hold until 21 Feb 2025] Hotkey to hide boxes in charts/diagrams

I have also expressed these views in the past direct to Calico Pie, it is up to them if they take the time/resources to make the product a more CLAF and flexible keystroke/mouse professional product. It just seems a pity that they do not make this product with excellent functionality "quicker&q...
by jimlad68
28 Dec 2023 15:44
Forum: Wish List Requests On Hold
Topic: On Hold until 13 Dec 2024: Abbreviated Place Names
Replies: 28
Views: 4107

Re: On Hold until 13 Dec 2024: Abbreviated Place Names

I am a very big fan of standardisation, even if they are not perfect, ISO standards etc, ISO dates like yyyymmdd. But as we have reiterated many times through this forum, PLACes are a minefield. So I fully understand where Adrian Bruce is coming from. E.G. - Whilst it seems normal for UK residents t...
by jimlad68
14 Nov 2023 12:26
Forum: Exporting
Topic: Simple Instruction on Exporting FH Tree to Ancestry
Replies: 8
Views: 741

Re: Simple Instruction on Exporting FH Tree to Ancestry

As Mike says, Ancestry support for Gedcom is... not very good, for me in particular the display of Source detail. I upload mine mostly as "cousin bate", DNA connections and Thrulines (use with caution!), to share my research, and use "Member Connect" for research. So still very u...
by jimlad68
10 Nov 2023 14:31
Forum: General Usage
Topic: %INDI.DEAT.DATE:AGE_AT% does not work with Birth BEFORE dates
Replies: 12
Views: 460

Re: %INDI.DEAT.DATE:AGE_AT% does not work with Birth BEFORE dates

I think the function year might not be doing what you think. It does no calculation or interpolation. It just extracts the year part of the first date it find in the facts date ignoring any qualifiers. So if the date is btw 1891 and 1901 it gives the answer 1891. For before it just gives the year p...
by jimlad68
10 Nov 2023 11:50
Forum: General Usage
Topic: %INDI.DEAT.DATE:AGE_AT% does not work with Birth BEFORE dates
Replies: 12
Views: 460

Re: %INDI.DEAT.DATE:AGE_AT% does not work with Birth BEFORE dates

I'm trying to understand how age_at could be determined from a before date as there's no limit to how long before they may have been born. If the event was a baptism there's no reason they could not of been baptised in their teens. To me EstimatedAgeAt would seem a more appropriate tool in the abse...
by jimlad68
09 Nov 2023 21:37
Forum: General Usage
Topic: %INDI.DEAT.DATE:AGE_AT% does not work with Birth BEFORE dates
Replies: 12
Views: 460

%INDI.DEAT.DATE:AGE_AT% does not work with Birth BEFORE dates

Under Diagram Options > Boxes, I use an expression =IsTrue(%INDI.DEAT.DATE:AGE_AT% < 15) This is to create a bottom-right box shadow to show someone died young. This works fine except where the individual has a BIRTH date using BEFORE . This is fairly common when creating BIRTh from a Baptism. This ...
by jimlad68
19 Oct 2023 19:14
Forum: Web Site Usage
Topic: Forum update
Replies: 68
Views: 4256

Re: Important: Forum update

Apologies if I got mixed up, but I much prefer the "look" of the new search results. I found the old ones confusing the way they kept popping in and out more detail as the cursor was moved. Sorry can't be more explicit as I can't see the old one anymore!
by jimlad68
17 Sep 2023 22:45
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Dates on photos of buildings
Replies: 9
Views: 5292

Re: Dates on photos of buildings

adding to my earlier post in this topic by jimlad68 » 10 Jul 2016 12:59by jimlad68 » 10 Jul 2016 12:59 The free XnView MP and Batch Convert > Add Action(s) also works very well and once set up can perform multiple actions all at once e.g. The attached *.xbs (in zip) preset file (need to unzip) will ...
by jimlad68
16 Sep 2023 22:21
Forum: Importing
Topic: Quarter dates and Gedcom files
Replies: 27
Views: 4523

Re: Quarter dates and Gedcom files

Apologies for being so late commenting on this, just noticed it in the SIMILAR TOPICS of a post. As already mentioned it is the 1/4 when registered, the birth not necessarily being in that 1/4. So to me; the simplest, most accurate, completely GEDCOM compliant and portable is to use CIRCA . e.g. 1st...
by jimlad68
12 Sep 2023 12:02
Forum: General Usage
Topic: How to document DNA connections with FHv7
Replies: 17
Views: 2453

Re: How to document DNA connections with FHv7

... My question is why include all of this within the fact type rather than within a custom source type? I am very much a believer in Sources as the prime source of information, so yes, why not use a Source. As I mentioned, for me it was simpler to perform analysis with custom facts (add info to tr...
by jimlad68
15 Jul 2023 11:52
Forum: Reports, Books & Websites
Topic: Can children's names be shown in bold?
Replies: 3
Views: 748

Re: Can children's names be shown in bold?

Following on from Mike's suggestion. I think the Blue highlight colour is designed as the standard for web "links", but for genealogy suggests Male. If you do save as RTF, and edit in say MS-Word, you could easily record a macro to change all blue to a more neutral colour (e.g. purple) and...
by jimlad68
24 Apr 2023 21:02
Forum: General Usage
Topic: DNA Fact
Replies: 4
Views: 3058

Re: DNA Fact

I suggest you search the forum for "DNA" and check some of the topics. The main point I can see is that there is no best or accepted method yet to record DNA relationships, and the data provided is still a "moving target". Within previous topics are various facts with "organ...
by jimlad68
21 Apr 2023 01:49
Forum: Web Site Usage
Topic: unable to enter FHUG site with message Your clock is behind etc
Replies: 12
Views: 1791

Re: unable to enter FHUG site with message Your clock is behind etc

I don't use Outlook, but in the Google Calendar you can set the Timezone for each event. I do this a lot when travelling, it is especially useful for Airline times. You can do the same in outlook - see https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/set-the-time-zone-for-a-meeting-or-appointment-in-outl...
by jimlad68
20 Apr 2023 13:23
Forum: Web Site Usage
Topic: unable to enter FHUG site with message Your clock is behind etc
Replies: 12
Views: 1791

Re: unable to enter FHUG site with message Your clock is behind etc

Many thanks for all those observations. The most likely culprit is: ..... will gradually drift away from "real" time, until it goes outside the allowed tolerance. In consequence in windows settings I set the time automatically ON and Synchronised my clock . Then set the time automatically ...
by jimlad68
20 Apr 2023 01:45
Forum: Web Site Usage
Topic: unable to enter FHUG site with message Your clock is behind etc
Replies: 12
Views: 1791

unable to enter FHUG site with message Your clock is behind etc

I am using a manually set time on my Windows laptop (due to MS international date/time confusions), which I have been doing for some time with date & Time settings "Set the time automatically" set to OFF and just this evening when opening the FHUG site got this message (similar on Edge...
by jimlad68
19 Apr 2023 17:19
Forum: Web Site Usage
Topic: Is it time to split the General Forum?
Replies: 84
Views: 48573

Re: Is it time to split the General Forum?

ColeValleyGirl wrote: 19 Apr 2023 17:04 Including a software upgrade/complete redesign?
I long since learnt that some seemingly complex suggestions just need a small tweak or a feature turned on, and vice versa. If you don't ask/suggest you don't get.
by jimlad68
19 Apr 2023 16:36
Forum: Web Site Usage
Topic: Is it time to split the General Forum?
Replies: 84
Views: 48573

Re: Is it time to split the General Forum?

Throwing out another "possibility": Get rid of all the sections, but use categorie(s) instead. I've often felt that the Plugin section also has "general" implications and similar with import/export can often give me "ideas/help" with other issues. So an item that was be...
by jimlad68
19 Apr 2023 16:02
Forum: Web Site Usage
Topic: Is it time to split the General Forum?
Replies: 84
Views: 48573

Re: Is it time to split the General Forum?

I like the idea, and if possible great, like the one's we have, but it is the age old problem, "where do you draw the line".
by jimlad68
14 Mar 2023 10:30
Forum: Importing
Topic: What specifically can you currently do with a gedcom 7 exported file?
Replies: 17
Views: 2510

Re: What specifically can you currently do with a gedcom 7 exported file?

My highest priority is getting my FH tree on to Ancestry.com in the most complete form that is possible. A challenge indeed. Mike's Export Gedcom File plugin does a good job, but I still find the way Ancestry shows Source note text very poor. It puts into one long string e.g. )Header)__Name______ |...
by jimlad68
11 Mar 2023 17:06
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Including update date in reports
Replies: 21
Views: 4692

Re: Including update date in reports

.... supporting this ISO 8601 date format within FH, as it is the international standard for text representation of date in computer systems, and the only common format that sorts chronologically as text. Wholeheartedly agree "sorting out of the box" and have used and pushed this for deca...
by jimlad68
09 Mar 2023 17:26
Forum: Plugin Technical Support & Development
Topic: Lumped Source Splitter question
Replies: 11
Views: 1179

Re: Lumped Source Splitter question

I think the problem there is that it could relate to many individuals with many different facts, but then a list might be useful. What I do is run plugin Where Used Record Links on the source which gives a full list of where the source is used, you can also click on many of the entries to take you d...
by jimlad68
08 Mar 2023 11:13
Forum: Ancestral Sources
Topic: New Video: All about sources in Family Historian
Replies: 18
Views: 2232

Re: New Video: All about sources in Family Historian

Not watched the video yet, but I intend to as after many years of TMG and FH I still do not fully understand the different methodology of Sources, I just use "simple splitter generic" sources which does all I need. re Family Historian leans towards the splitter method. So it may be slightl...
by jimlad68
28 Feb 2023 14:45
Forum: Research
Topic: How to record slaves in Family Historian
Replies: 16
Views: 3061

Re: How to record slaves in Family Historian

Interestingly, this relationship is included specifically in the new RM9 “Associations” feature that allows non-family relationships to be recorded (friends, employer/employee, enslaver/enslaved, etc). It will be interesting to see if FH follows suit in due course. I hope this is OK with the "...
by jimlad68
28 Feb 2023 13:45
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Sources
Replies: 7
Views: 1150

Re: Sources

When I look for sources, the titles are too short, I can drag them across but they don't stay that way when I look the next time. How do I fix this? John, I'm not sure where you are looking. - on the Records window it is easy to drag the column to make it wider and it stays there for me, however de...
by jimlad68
17 Feb 2023 12:35
Forum: Wish List Requests On Hold
Topic: On Hold until 13 Dec 2024: Abbreviated Place Names
Replies: 28
Views: 4107

Re: Abbreviated Place Names

That sounds good to me, I suppose a simpler to use version of my use of ADDRess and Mike's use of GetLabelledText. I suspect it is "internationally" automated , but not "per user" automated . My plugin does offer a large degree of "user desired" automation, but I would...