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- 05 Apr 2024 08:04
- Forum: Ancestral Sources
- Topic: Monumental Inscriptions - thoughts?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 901
Re: Monumental Inscriptions - thoughts?
Might the date field in the source record be intended to record the date the memorial was transcribed? Memorial inscriptions can, after all, change over time as new names and dates are added, or portions become illegible, e.g. through weathering, so a record of the date the inscription was transcrib...
- 05 Jan 2024 09:46
- Forum: Closed Wish List Requests
- Topic: [Wish List 630] Template Design Preview
- Replies: 42
- Views: 3876
Re: Template Design Preview
I'd strongly support this proposal also.
- 12 Apr 2023 15:33
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: What meta-fields can be used in Footnotes and Bibliographies?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1770
Re: What meta-fields can be used in Footnotes and Bibliographies?
I have to admit as to being confused as to why you would have any citations in a bibliography . By my understanding, that's not what a bibliography is for. Back in my student days, citations were in-line and cross-referenced to the sources . The bibliography on the other hand was just a list of all ...
- 03 Mar 2023 21:27
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Using Function YEAR with Source Templates
- Replies: 6
- Views: 799
Re: Using Function YEAR with Source Templates
Also, if you want to save the effort of having separate fields for surname and given names, you can just define a single name field and use "REVERSE" to have the surname first when you need that. for example, {Name} would output William Idle and {Name:REVERSE} would output Idle, William .
- 03 Mar 2023 21:19
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Using Function YEAR with Source Templates
- Replies: 6
- Views: 799
Re: Using Function YEAR with Source Templates
I use the following for the title in a source record for electoral roll entries:
Record Title Format: {Date:YEAR} electoral roll - {LGA}, {Ward}
Where Date is a defined date field and LGA and Ward are defined text fields in my source template.
Record Title Format: {Date:YEAR} electoral roll - {LGA}, {Ward}
Where Date is a defined date field and LGA and Ward are defined text fields in my source template.
- 26 Feb 2023 02:24
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Superfluous citations (revisited)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 645
Superfluous citations (revisited)
Mike, Many years ago you created a plugin that supressed superfluous citations in reports. This was discussed in the thread 13496|Exclude citations from reports unless assessed as Primary . Since upgrading a while back to V7 I have recreated most of my sources to take advantage of the templated sour...
- 23 Feb 2023 21:17
- Forum: Wish List Requests On Hold
- Topic: On Hold until 13 Dec 2024: Abbreviated Place Names
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4139
Re: Abbreviated Place Names
That works well, thank you.
Some of my addresses have comma-separated parts. Is it possible to limit address to only the 1st part, as you can with addressesplaces --something to do with "text parts", although I don't remember the precise syntax?
Some of my addresses have comma-separated parts. Is it possible to limit address to only the 1st part, as you can with addressesplaces --something to do with "text parts", although I don't remember the precise syntax?
- 23 Feb 2023 19:18
- Forum: Wish List Requests On Hold
- Topic: On Hold until 13 Dec 2024: Abbreviated Place Names
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4139
Re: Abbreviated Place Names
In each Place record Note, add a labelled note such as Abbreviation: Wolverhampton, Staffs Then use the Expression =GetLabelledText(%FACT.PLAC>NOTE2%,"Abbreviation:") instead of {place} in Sentence Templates and =GetLabelledText(%INDI.XXXX.PLAC>NOTE2%,"Abbreviation:") in Diagram...
- 16 Feb 2023 13:22
- Forum: Wish List Requests On Hold
- Topic: On Hold until 13 Dec 2024: Abbreviated Place Names
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4139
Re: Abbreviated Place Names
It's grim up north, why would I ever want to face that way?
No, you're right, of course. I must have been having a senior moment. I don't know where I am...
- 16 Feb 2023 11:14
- Forum: Wish List Requests On Hold
- Topic: On Hold until 13 Dec 2024: Abbreviated Place Names
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4139
Re: Abbreviated Place Names
Similar issue for me - Broadly speaking, half my tree is in the UK and Ireland, the other half in the USA, and I stick rigidly to a 4-part place name (settlement, county, state, country) for that reason, with the third part being empty for places on this side of the pond. Ideally, in reports I want ...
- 08 Feb 2023 20:52
- Forum: Ancestral Sources
- Topic: Testing Ancestral Sources v7.6.13 (February 2023)
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6282
Re: Testing Ancestral Sources v7.6.10 (February 2023)
Peter Re Short title, have you looed at the changes introduces in version 7.6.7 (Beta)? Short titles will no longer be recorded if templated sources are used. This change was prompted by this discussion . Templated sources don't use the short title. Fair enough. In which case then, it is working fo...
- 06 Feb 2023 23:22
- Forum: Ancestral Sources
- Topic: Testing Ancestral Sources v7.6.13 (February 2023)
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6282
Re: Testing Ancestral Sources v7.6.10 (February 2023)
v7.6.10 Working OK for me thus far. [EDIT] Spoke too soon! I've just noticed it is not creating a short title for my census entries. [/EDIT] One thing I keep meaning to ask regarding the Image viewer. I have the following options selected: Link existing image already in the file , Show image title ,...
- 05 Feb 2023 23:37
- Forum: Research
- Topic: Place records for places with no names
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1666
Place records for places with no names
Here's an interesting problem I haven't run into before now. I always try to use a place's correct historical name for past events while recording its current name as the standardised placename. However, some of my wife's ancestors are from colonial New York and were the first (European) settlers in...
- 03 Feb 2023 23:48
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Expanding and collapsing nodes in records window
- Replies: 1
- Views: 574
Expanding and collapsing nodes in records window
Is there a way to expand or collapse multiple (sub-)nodes in the records window at the same time, i.e. if I want to expand the top level of several records at once, or expand all of the sub-levels in one particular record in a single click?
- 20 Jan 2023 16:25
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Unmarried couples in narrative reports.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 928
Re: Unmarried couples in narrative reports.
I haven't got around to that as yet.
- 20 Jan 2023 16:17
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Unmarried couples in narrative reports.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 928
Re: Unmarried couples in narrative reports.
Thanks, Mike. I may go with that 2nd option. I know using a marriage event achieves the desired result, and adding the descriptor will keep the data "clean" for any future users and hopefully eliminate any potential confusion.
- 19 Jan 2023 18:23
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Unmarried couples in narrative reports.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 928
Unmarried couples in narrative reports.
I have the following situation in my tree: A couple were together for many years and had children together. The male partner, the father of the children, is my relative. The couple ultimately went their separate ways and some years later my relative met someone else and this new couple actually marr...
- 18 Jan 2023 09:11
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Best way to print family tree for 80 year old
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1776
Re: Best way to print family tree for 80 year old
Spread the tree across multiple separate charts with cross-references to "See chart No. ...", perhaps?
- 16 Jan 2023 23:15
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Narrative reports: Birth/Baptism
- Replies: 1
- Views: 464
Narrative reports: Birth/Baptism
I have a narrative report set up with a limited set of facts, which includes an individual's birth and baptism events. I'd like the report to include the baptism event only if there is no birth event. Is there a way to do that?
- 11 Jan 2023 13:35
- Forum: Research
- Topic: Naming and organising digital copies of old photos
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2250
Re: Naming and organising digital copies of old photos
E.g. J000346abc\2, is the 2nd spouse of J00346abc, who is a child of J00346ab, who in turn is a child of J00346a who is child of J00346, a direct ancestor of my root with an AN of 346. Simples :D Nifty! How do you handle orphans? Not in the literal sense, but rather people whose relationship you ca...
- 10 Jan 2023 14:16
- Forum: Research
- Topic: Naming and organising digital copies of old photos
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2250
Naming and organising digital copies of old photos
I have acquired an enormous pile of old family photographs which I need to digitise. Once I've done that, I intend to add them into my FH project. While I have many image files in my project - BMD certificates, census returns, and so on - I have so far never actually added any photos! I like to keep...
- 09 Jan 2023 22:07
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Help with source template expression
- Replies: 4
- Views: 484
Re: Help with source template expression
I should add, the same error message appears, mutatis mutandis, for the title, bibliography, and short footnote. The error doesn't just appear for the footnote format.
- 09 Jan 2023 22:03
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Help with source template expression
- Replies: 4
- Views: 484
Re: Help with source template expression
Unfortunately, that doesn't work. I get the following error message:
That is what pushed me down the function route.- 09 Jan 2023 21:32
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Help with source template expression
- Replies: 4
- Views: 484
Help with source template expression
I have a date field in a source template called "Publication date". I want to be able to separate the day and month from that field to suit a particular footnote style. {Publication_date:YEAR} separates out the year for me, and I can get half way there with the day and month by using the e...
- 09 Jan 2023 09:18
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Excluding witness sentences from child events in narrative reports
- Replies: 9
- Views: 817
Re: Excluding witness sentences from child events in narrative reports
Granted, not always ideal - for the reasons you outlined - but in my particular case there were only 3 facts involved and there had been no prior changes to consider (if there had, I might have been less cavalier!). Nevertheless, other people's mileage may vary so perhaps it was a point worth making.