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by arthurk
23 Mar 2024 10:39
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Autotext Rich Text table formatting glitches
Replies: 13
Views: 1462

Re: Autotext Rich Text table formatting glitches

I've recently noticed that this issue is happening again (in v.7.0.22), though not quite to the same extent.

I've reported it to CP, who have been able to reproduce it, so hopefully it will be dealt with in a future update.
by arthurk
21 Mar 2024 17:22
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Autotext - titles of custom items
Replies: 0
Views: 80

Autotext - titles of custom items

I've just come across a quirk relating to the titles of my custom Autotext items. I have about 25 of these, until now all in one folder. Among my items were the following, and these and other similar groups seem to be where the problem lies: 1901 Census 1901 Census (SCT) 1901 Census (IRL) Marriage M...
by arthurk
08 Mar 2024 11:26
Forum: Ancestral Sources
Topic: Question about scope of records handled by A.S.
Replies: 35
Views: 2303

Re: Question about scope of records handled by A.S.

[The GRO Index is a good example. There may be several Frederick William Wells born in a specific quarter of a certain year, so one also needs the mother's maiden surname to know which one is the actual target.] I don't know if you deliberately fictionalised the entry in order to post it here, but ...
by arthurk
27 Jan 2024 11:15
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Query to find family branch members
Replies: 51
Views: 2737

Re: Query to find family branch members

You need to thank Mike as well - he came up with the initial idea, I just refined it. Thanks to Mike too, and everyone else who contributed ideas and tried them out. I ran out of steam quite early on this, but it all goes to show that with a bit of ingenuity, FH seems to be able to come up with alm...
by arthurk
26 Jan 2024 19:47
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Query to find family branch members
Replies: 51
Views: 2737

Re: Query to find family branch members

Thanks for this, John - I think I'm going to use it instead of the All Relatives query that I mentioned near the start of this thread, but I didn't have the patience (and probably not the skill either) to work it out for myself.
by arthurk
24 Jan 2024 14:23
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Query to find family branch members
Replies: 51
Views: 2737

Re: Query to find family branch members

I ran the All Relatives query and my proposed grandparent branch query on the Family Historian Sample Project using Michael Pleasance MUNRO as the root grandparent. All Relatives returned a Result Set of 52 people which as Lorna says includes dozens of descendants. It also includes the wife of the ...
by arthurk
24 Jan 2024 11:22
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Query to find family branch members
Replies: 51
Views: 2737

Re: Query to find family branch members

Or you could just use the inbuilt All Relatives query for each grandparent in turn.

The slight drawback to this is that each grandparent appears in their spouse's list as well as their own, but if you can live with that you might find it simpler.
by arthurk
12 Jan 2024 16:43
Forum: Sources, Citations & Repositories
Topic: Citation Assessments
Replies: 7
Views: 706

Re: Citation Assessments

Thank you for all your thoughts. I'm doing family history mainly for myself, with no plans to publish, and for the most part I don't feel any need for these assessments. If a source's title indicates that it's a transcript, what do I gain by ticking a box against every citation to show that it's Der...
by arthurk
11 Jan 2024 17:30
Forum: Sources, Citations & Repositories
Topic: Citation Assessments
Replies: 7
Views: 706

Citation Assessments

In a previous program (I think) I went through a phase of adding Primary Information as an assessment to many of my citations. Now I consider most of these to be inappropriate, and I'm thinking of simply removing them. I know how to find them and delete them (though deleting thousands of items with ...
by arthurk
10 Jan 2024 11:19
Forum: Ancestral Sources
Topic: Edting keywords for images
Replies: 6
Views: 702

Re: Edting keywords for images

The Keyword Update plugin might also help:

https://pluginstore.family-historian.co ... ord-update
by arthurk
18 Dec 2023 17:09
Forum: Maintaining the KnowledgeBase
Topic: Tips and Tricks for Rich Text Editing
Replies: 6
Views: 1295

Re: Tips and Tricks for Rich Text Editing

tatewise wrote: 18 Dec 2023 16:21 I've added Tips and Tricks for Rich Text Editing to the Notes subsection of Entering and Editing Data.
I've also added Glossary entries for Rich Text and Text from Source.
Any feedback or comments are welcome.
Thanks - looks fine to me.
by arthurk
18 Dec 2023 14:02
Forum: Maintaining the KnowledgeBase
Topic: Tips and Tricks for Rich Text Editing
Replies: 6
Views: 1295

Re: Tips and Tricks for Rich Text Editing

Maybe just sleeping? I'll start it with the feature from the discussion that kicked this off: Resizing table columns including use of the shift key to resize one column only without resizing the adjacent column. Also in connection with tables, can I add How to edit raw rich text, as described in 208...
by arthurk
26 Nov 2023 19:18
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Show Named List membership in Property Box?
Replies: 10
Views: 486

Re: Show Named List membership in Property Box?

What I was suggesting was to Append the family ID of everyone in that branch, irrespective of them having a current ID or not If the family Name is Smith, append Smith to the current ID of all those in the Smith Branch. If their current ID is blank, because they are not one of you direct ancestors,...
by arthurk
26 Nov 2023 15:59
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Show Named List membership in Property Box?
Replies: 10
Views: 486

Re: Show Named List membership in Property Box?

Mike - I think you've misunderstood my Custom ID scheme, or else I didn't explain it very well. And in fact I'm perfectly happy with the scheme as it is - the question is about how to display it. Currently the only individuals with Custom IDs are my direct ancestors - about 230 in total. My grandpar...
by arthurk
26 Nov 2023 14:05
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Show Named List membership in Property Box?
Replies: 10
Views: 486

Re: Show Named List membership in Property Box?

Arthur, A simple way to achive what you want, is to give everyone a custom ID, to indicate which branch they belong to.... Thanks - I already use Custom IDs and include them in the main tab caption, but my way of doing this doesn't cover everyone. My Custom IDs are essentially Ahnentafel numbers st...
by arthurk
26 Nov 2023 10:59
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Show Named List membership in Property Box?
Replies: 10
Views: 486

Re: Show Named List membership in Property Box?

Thank you, Sarah - that explains it perfectly. I probably will now add in this extra step of setting flags for some of my named lists, so that I can display them somewhere in the property box and easily add/remove them when necessary. (Not the Main tab, though - one of the things that started this l...
by arthurk
25 Nov 2023 19:49
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Show Named List membership in Property Box?
Replies: 10
Views: 486

Show Named List membership in Property Box?

I'm wondering if there's some way of showing in the Property Box whether a person is a member of a particular Named List. I know it's possible to show Flags in the property box, with tick boxes to add or remove them, but can the same thing be done with list membership? I'm toying with the idea of se...
by arthurk
28 Oct 2023 15:16
Forum: General Usage
Topic: FH version for RM :lower command
Replies: 6
Views: 390

Re: FH version for RM :lower command

Unless you can edit the role to use lower-case (I don't use witness roles, so this is beyond my experience) Jane's answer to the opposite of this question helped me a few months ago: To uppercase the first character you can use: =Text(ToUpper(LeftText(Relationship(FileRoot(),,TEXT,1),1,"")...
by arthurk
27 Oct 2023 15:39
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Add religion to baptism fact
Replies: 23
Views: 913

Re: Add religion to baptism fact

For me, it's definitely a feature of the event, not the participants. I'd agree (for marriages at least) - but is this supported by the underlying data structure? For example, if you wanted to run a query to find Religious Affiliations, would it be a fact query or a person query? And if it's findin...
by arthurk
27 Oct 2023 15:05
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Add religion to baptism fact
Replies: 23
Views: 913

Re: Add religion to baptism fact

Yes, but remember that the religion/denomination in which someone marries isn't necessarily one to which they're actually affiliated. Which is perhaps an argument for recording it against the marriage fact and not the person. Indeed - for a marriage in particular I thought of suggesting that the af...
by arthurk
27 Oct 2023 14:52
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Add religion to baptism fact
Replies: 23
Views: 913

Re: Add religion to baptism fact

If you go to the All Tab for that person's property window, and right-click the baptism fact, you will see a surprisingly long list of items that can be added to the baptism event. One of them is " Religious Affiliation ". This will then be visible from the All Tab, of course, but can be ...
by arthurk
27 Oct 2023 12:38
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Add religion to baptism fact
Replies: 23
Views: 913

Re: Add religion to baptism fact

You can either add a labelled text field in the note and include that in your sentence template.... Unfortunately, no, other than by adding a note comment, which is rarely the ideal solution. If I needed to, I wouldn't have a problem putting it in the Note field as ordinary (non-labelled) text. You...
by arthurk
21 Oct 2023 15:02
Forum: Web Site Usage
Topic: Forum update
Replies: 68
Views: 4256

Re: Important: Forum update

Try using urls starting with https Thank you very much, Helen - that's the clue I needed. On the FHUG home page ( https://fhug.org.uk/ ) the target of "Active Forum Topics" is http://www.fhug.org.uk/forum/search.php?search_id=active_topics . I'm not sure whether it's by accident or design...
by arthurk
21 Oct 2023 13:13
Forum: Web Site Usage
Topic: Forum update
Replies: 68
Views: 4256

Re: Important: Forum update

Just now I had to log on again while still in the same Android Firefox session. I am somewhere where the mobile signal isn't great and I had lost signal for a minute or two. Different IP address a possible cause? You can check the IP address in User Control Panel > Profile > Manage “Remember Me” lo...
by arthurk
21 Oct 2023 09:50
Forum: Web Site Usage
Topic: Forum update
Replies: 68
Views: 4256

Re: Important: Forum update

I'm also using Windows 10 and Firefox 118.0.2. No problems with staying logged in here. That's strange, though possibly we have slightly different settings for something. I have cookies allowed for FHUG (both http and https), and I've also just checked the tracking protection setting. Normally I ha...