Family Historian User Group

Hi Tor - If you use only standard gedcom tags in TMG FH will import a family event. However any custom tags with 2 principals are not treated as TMG treats them. They import as a single fact with a witness. All my census tags (I have a tag for each census year) import into FH as single events with a...

Hi Mike -

Tried your latest version - it works fine. No errors. All the places are rearranged in their correct columns.
Thanks

Linda

Mike - I couldn't attach the fail message to the previous reply. I'm trying again Fail_Oil_City.png Fail_Meadville.png That worked. (I had addd the 3 files by clicking attachments, then wrote some info and then tried clicking attachments again, and nothing attached.) If you look at the fail message ...

Hi Mike - My data: Oil City and oil City Meadville and meadville What my place list looked like before the plugin: Screen_Oil_City.png Place_List.png Mapping options: only left justify all place parts to Place 1. I ran the plugin on all my data - no filters. Plugin_Settings.png The 2 fail errors: BT...

Thanks, Mike. It's much easier to fix/merge with the 'Edit'. Somehow that's a button I don't use very much....

Linda

Mike - The reason I was using rearrange address and place parts is because I was trying to eliminate the first part of my places as that is always blank. When I went to run the Plugin I got many errors 'Failed to change Place (TEXT) name'. I used that output to fix my data. I can see that Place Exce...

I have been working with the Rearrange address and place plugin - version 1.7 Should I update to version 1.7.1? I don't see it in the plugin store I have 56,000+ people and 19,000+ place records, so not quite as many as John Hanson. It has taken me many iterations of the plug-in to find all the erro...

I have imported from TMG, and found variants for my source templates. The problem turned out to be as Mike described - but he called the fields as override fields. What happened in my case was that in TMG I had changed source templates, adding fields and subtracting fields. This caused 'extra' data ...

Thanks for the help. Ticket written.

I have also started a file/reminder to myself on how to write a ticket - and the ticket number!

Linda

Sorry - I have spent the past 30 mins trying to find out how to report a bug. I found a thread with Mike's advice: See how_to:about#problem_reporting|> Problem Reporting. But following that didn't tell me exactly how to..... A search on 'How to report a bug' did not return any results. TIA..... Linda

Thanks for the responses. I use GedSite for my online web creation. It will not accept .jpeg format. Thank goodness I keep my media outside FH and Mike's Export GedCom File program doesn't change the file format so all is well now. I shall report to Calico Pie as a bug. I have about 8,000 photos, al...

I am importing from TMG, direct import. I have chosen to keep my media files outside of FH. Everything works fine, the links are fine. The only problem is when I look at the media tab in the records window, the format column identifies most (but not all) of my .jpg photos as jpeg. The photos are OK,...

Thanks for bringing this up again. I had forgotten I wrote a ticket about this. There certainly is NO reason for the italics... I checked the status of my ticket. I don't understand: I wrote the ticked on 2 Feb 2021. Received an email acknowledging the ticket. Received a 2nd email saying: I have log...

The columns are not misnamed. The event happened 18 years before the subject's birth. That is obvious. I just thought that if you can have a cut-off date of death, you could have a cut-off date of birth, so the events being displayed occur only during the subject's lifetime. A matter of preference. ...

I would really like an option for a cut-off date for the timeline - before the birth date of the person. I assume that since an option is cut-off date after death, it wouldn't be very hard to create a cut-off before birth. If a child is the youngest of 10 siblings, and you identify sibling births an...

OK, thanks for the answer....

Linda

This topic was originally started on the mail list and I tried to reply but the mail wouldn't go through. The questioner asked about including key diagrams on the main tool bar, and the answer was given. I have a few key reports that I use all the time, and would love to see them on the main toolbar...

Mike - Thanks for the detailed instructions. And also thanks to Lorna for the plugin 'Create Source Templates Definitions'. I didn't know you had to run that as one of the steps in conversion. My TMG templates seemed fine, I could use them with sources, and didn't even realize something was wrong un...

Hi Mike - When I click on tools/source template definitions the only collections I see are All, Advanced, Custom (4 of these where I was testing/fooling around with the templates before they were imported from TMG) and Essentials. There are no TMG templates there. The TMG templates are shown in the ...

Hi Mike - I changed the data element/Field Definition (URL) in the source template (online study project) to 'text'. Easy. However, when I went to the source record that uses that source template the Source record shows 'Undefined Template Field'. But it still has the data in it. Then when I look at...

Mike- Sources in TMG have source templates with different fields called source elements. Just like FH has source templates. Unfortunately in TMG the source elements are divided into groups. One of these groups is identified as location. The various types of location can be Address, Author Address, c...

TMG has source templates. The elements used in the source templates are divided into groups: Author, comments, file reference, location, etc. FH has treated the location source element within a source as a valid location when doing a direct conversion from TMG. Mike referred to the 10 fields in the ...

Carl - I think the problematic places came from the import of TMG. I have the same problem. FH regards locations in source documents as locations, i.e. if a source element comes from the location group FH treats it just like a place in a tag. It's rather annoying - I have decided just to ignore thes...

Thanks for the replies.

I am not good at updating systems things. I think (!) I updated a driver, but it didn't help.

I know how to fix/rearrange the screen. When I get too annoyed, I shall go to a local computer shop.

Thanks again -

Linda

My configuration is a laptop - Lenovo Thinkpad with a Samsung screen attached. In order to see a lot of data at once I usually run FH on the attached screen. When moving from tab to tab on the main screen (main tab then facts tab) the following happens: Capture.JPG To fix it I move the 3 little dots...