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by steveflanuk
30 Dec 2020 22:21
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Types of Users.
Replies: 11
Views: 4120

Re: Types of Users.

Ah the good old Pareto (or 80/20) rule!
by steveflanuk
30 Dec 2020 21:49
Forum: Research
Topic: How do you record Unknown people?
Replies: 14
Views: 5927

Re: How do you record Unknown people?

I know I've come into this late, but in my tree (which is still quite small in comparison to others in this forum), the only people I have without a 'known' surname are usually female spouses, in which case I put the husband's surname in square brackets (e.g. [Smith]). Works for me.
by steveflanuk
24 Aug 2020 15:26
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Automatically create GIVN and SURN tags
Replies: 4
Views: 2652

Re: Automatically create GIVN and SURN tags

Mike Thank you for the suggestions - very much appreciated. I've run the UDF List Plugin and didn't find anything - so all good there. I've also run your Clean Unwanted Fields plugin and can confirm that all GIVN and SURN fields have now been removed. Once again, thank you very much for the helpful ...
by steveflanuk
24 Aug 2020 14:50
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Automatically create GIVN and SURN tags
Replies: 4
Views: 2652

Re: Automatically create GIVN and SURN tags

Mike

Many thanks for the very speedy response. Glad it's not something I've done!

I can only assume that these tags were provided in the original GEDCOM that I imported when I originally started with Family Historian.

Regards

Steve
by steveflanuk
24 Aug 2020 14:10
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Automatically create GIVN and SURN tags
Replies: 4
Views: 2652

Automatically create GIVN and SURN tags

When I add a new person to my database, only the NAME tag appears to be created. Just to be clear I'm usually adding people via the 'Add Spouse/Partner' or 'Add Child' links on the Main tab of the Property box. Is there any way that I can get Family Historian to automatically add a GIVN and SURN tag...
by steveflanuk
05 Aug 2020 21:30
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Witnesses - Potentially the same person
Replies: 2
Views: 1989

Re: Witnesses - Potentially the same person

Many thanks for the link to the plugin Mike - it must have been my search parameters that missed that post. Fully expected the 'fuzzy logic' you mention to be a stumbling block to be honest. As you say, I think a mixture of using the results from your plugin along with a Records Window search should...
by steveflanuk
05 Aug 2020 16:38
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Witnesses - Potentially the same person
Replies: 2
Views: 1989

Witnesses - Potentially the same person

Apologies if this has been asked before, but a number of searches didn't bring anything up (probably more to do with my search terms than anything else :oops: ) I have a number of 'Name Only' witnesses within my database, however, recently I had an example whereby I had 2 people who were witnesses t...
by steveflanuk
30 Jul 2020 16:42
Forum: Research
Topic: Where would you record the death?
Replies: 7
Views: 5829

Re: Where would you record the death?

Apologies for not replying sooner to this. Whether such a Place of Note would geocode differently to the Place of Death depends on what is recorded in Place fields. If only 'Town, County, Country' then I would expect them both to be much the same, unless the hospital was a long way off. If the addre...
by steveflanuk
22 Jul 2020 21:44
Forum: Research
Topic: Where would you record the death?
Replies: 7
Views: 5829

Re: Where would you record the death?

Big thanks you to everyone for your replies, thoughts and recommendations. It appears that we all agree that, in light of no other evidence (until I get the death certificate), the place of death should be recorded as in hospital. I'm think that I may add a 'Place of Note' fact to record the address...
by steveflanuk
21 Jul 2020 21:50
Forum: Research
Topic: Where would you record the death?
Replies: 7
Views: 5829

Where would you record the death?

Just looking for some pointers on this one. I have an ancestor who was a taxi driver and found collapsed and unconscious at the wheel of their taxi. The local press had a small report and mentioned the house address they were found outside, but also mention that they were pronounced dead at hospital...
by steveflanuk
09 Mar 2020 21:56
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Recording a death at sea
Replies: 6
Views: 3838

Recording a death at sea

I have an ancestor who died at sea (Andaman Sea) about 400km off the coast of Thailand. I have his death certificate which, very helpfully, provides the latitude and longitude of the ship when he died. I was wondering whether anyone else had recorded a Death at Sea, and how they recorded the place/a...
by steveflanuk
29 Dec 2019 21:20
Forum: General Usage
Topic: File Naming Convention
Replies: 29
Views: 18845

Re: File Naming Convention

Just to add another possibility to the excellent suggestions so far. Personally, I use reference details where possible. For example, for birth/death registrations I go with quarter_year_volume_reference (for example Q1_1934_8b_402). If there is more than one entry with the same reference, then I'll...
by steveflanuk
27 Jun 2019 19:47
Forum: Genealogy News
Topic: What a name!!
Replies: 1
Views: 3155

What a name!!

I follow a guy called Myko Clelland on Twitter (@DapperHistorian) who posted about a fabulous birth certificate registered at West Derby in 1883 where the child of Arthur Pepper and Mary Jane Pepper nee Creighton was registered with 26 given names - one for every letter of the alphabet from Ann thro...
by steveflanuk
27 Jun 2019 09:45
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Deceased/retired Occupation
Replies: 11
Views: 6646

Re: Deceased/retired Occupation

Sounds like I record mine slightly different to other people. I have a custom event called 'Occupation at Death' where I record the occupation from the death certificate exactly as it is recorded, including the 'retired' part. As regards marriage certificates (and other non-Death related documents),...
by steveflanuk
27 Jun 2019 09:34
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Advice about my own FT
Replies: 7
Views: 5237

Re: Advice about my own FT

Another single tree vote from me. If it wasn't for a single tree then I may not have found out that my maternal great grandfather served on the same ship as the brother of my paternal great grandfather in WWI - just over 50 years prior to the marriage of my parents!!
by steveflanuk
27 Jun 2019 09:25
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Multiple Private Notes in a query
Replies: 15
Views: 9198

Re: Multiple Private Notes in a query

I wasn't expecting my original post to end up in a long discussion such as this - but many thanks for everybody's contributions. Very interesting and informative. Just to clarify that, yes, I attach my research notes (as a local note rather than a shared note) to the overall Individual or Family rec...
by steveflanuk
27 Jun 2019 09:14
Forum: Research
Topic: Latin Translation
Replies: 3
Views: 4840

Re: Latin Translation

One side of my family were Roman Catholics and, based on my experience, you will probably find a few baptisms with notes written at the side. They can provide a wealth of additional information, or at least pointers as to where to look next for certain events like marriages.
by steveflanuk
24 Jun 2019 21:27
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Multiple Private Notes in a query
Replies: 15
Views: 9198

Re: Multiple Private Notes in a query

Many thanks for the very kind offer Jane - much appreciated. Enjoy your holiday.
by steveflanuk
24 Jun 2019 20:54
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Multiple Private Notes in a query
Replies: 15
Views: 9198

Re: Multiple Private Notes in a query

Apologies for not replying sooner (busy weekend and a very busy Monday in work!!). Mike - yes that is how I am capturing my Research notes at present and I was thinking of having a RN1, RN2 label as you mention. ColeValleyGirl - yes I saw Jane's blog, very useful, however, I hadn't downloaded the pl...
by steveflanuk
21 Jun 2019 21:33
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Multiple Private Notes in a query
Replies: 15
Views: 9198

Multiple Private Notes in a query

There has been a lot of discussions in these forums regarding ToDo lists and Research Notes, which I have read with interest. I'm finding that Jane's simple private note with RN: or TD: qualifier is working well for my database. I like to keep these private notes linked to the individual or family -...
by steveflanuk
13 May 2019 20:57
Forum: General Usage
Topic: To Do Lists / Work Management: What External Apps may people use?
Replies: 11
Views: 6843

Re: To Do Lists / Work Management: What External Apps may people use?

I use a mixture of 2 web apps to help with my research and to-do lists. My research/to-do list is in Trello ( https://trello.com/home ). Trello is based on Kanban boards . Each board can have a number of columns, with each column having any number of cards (basically virtual index cards) which can h...
by steveflanuk
08 Apr 2019 21:25
Forum: General Usage
Topic: underscore character or hyphen?
Replies: 14
Views: 9326

Re: underscore character or hyphen?

Personally I would say an underscore is better - but that is just my preferred way of naming items or files. If you have a hyphen in your date and time string and, in the future, imported a list of these strings into another program, the hyphen may be mistaken for a minus sign especially when you ar...
by steveflanuk
19 Jul 2018 18:37
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Entering Fractions
Replies: 4
Views: 4182

Re: Entering Fractions

You can enter a few simple fractions just using the keyboard, but you will need to have a numeric keypad found to the right of your traditional qwerty keyboard (i.e. they don't work with the row of numbers at the top of a keyboard) Just hold down your ALT key when typing in the following on the nume...
by steveflanuk
10 Jun 2018 15:45
Forum: General Usage
Topic: FH 6.2.7
Replies: 7
Views: 5787

Re: FH 6.2.7

dewilkinson wrote:I just ran the upgrade from FH->Help and it completed without an error.
Me too - upgraded with no issues.
by steveflanuk
10 Jun 2018 15:36
Forum: General Usage
Topic: FH6 - Extract all FH data to a PDF report file
Replies: 10
Views: 7371

Re: FH6 - Extract all FH data to a PDF report file

If you want to view your GEDCOM from a USB stick then it might be worth having a look at the genealogical program ScionPC ( http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/scionpc/ ) It runs as a standalone program straight from your USB stick and it doesn't need to use anything like registry settings, etc so I wo...