Family Historian User Group

Mike, Thank you for all your time and explanations on this topic. However, given the amount of time it will take me to just set things right in FH, and some very convoluted processes in comparison to what I am used to in TMG, I have decided to abandon FH for the second time. There is nothing in FH t...

Mike, One more question. How do I delete a user generated source completely. I was experimenting with creating specific source/citations for my project. I created a source/citation template, decided I did not like the results, and then deleted that source/citation template and started over. When I c...

Mike, Thank you very much for that code and suggestions. I have another question related to the sources tab on the records page. There is a column titled "Template" and in all my generic sources it is empty. If I right-click on a source record name I can apply a template. If I define the t...

This is the boilerplate for the source: Ancestry.com. Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2008. Citing Institut Généalogique Drouin; Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Drouin Collection ; Author: Gabriel Dr...

Because I am new to the program I may have my terminology wrong. I have checked out my sources and you are correct - the information is there but when it is used in reports it does not come out the way I would like to express it. If I go to source template definition>new I can create a new source ty...

I was meaning - create generic source record/prepare citation feature I believe. Since a large number of my source/citations come from one or two sources (my largest is 25K records) it would seem to be a real time saver if I could import those into a create generic source record/prepare citation tem...

Thanks for that. Next question, is there a way to take specific generic sources/citations and import them into a custom source/citation and then reconstruct the various sentences - in more simple terms turn a generic template into a custom template?
Rick

When I imported my TMG project all of the sources were imported into a "generic" category. I would like to take my generic source/citation items and work on the sentence structure that is used to create the biblio, footnotes, etc. Is there a way to do that?

What is the sentence code for making a person's surname possessive as in the sentence - Mr. Smith's second marriage. Can anyone help? Also where can I find a reference for all of the sentence codes and examples?

I just created my first generic source/citation template and then used that to create my first new source and citation. I have tested it out and thus far it appears to meet my needs and be compatible with ORA. My next job is to re-write some of my ORA templates to remove some of the formatting that ...

I have been using the product Online Research Assistant (ORA) created by John Cardinal. It greatly speeds up the generation of sources and citations for those websites that have an ORA capability. If one uses Ancestry for example, you need only create a boilerplate source once based on the source ID...

I am a TMG user and just today, imported all of my data from TMG into FH. I have 15 generations in my family tree and about 55K people and 18K exhibits. At this point I continue to improve my research and prepare the output. My approach has been to collect all the facts, write individual sentences f...

I have been doing genealogical research for about 40 years now and I have gone through many transitions in my approach to recording the information I have collected. I am not a big fan of the "Mills" method of recording sources, but I do try to adhere to them as closely as possible without...

I have brought this topic up previously but did not find an adequate solution to the issue - at least one that suited me. In retrospect, I may have been asking too much or been too regimented. So for this topic I want to give an example and ask those people who have been using FH for a long time to ...

After ruminating about this issue for a few hours, I have come to the conclusion that the simplest approach would be to modify the the sentence structure with a simple text note annotation similar to this example: < {=GetLabelledText(%FACT.NOTE2%,"note1: ")} > modified for the godparents <...

Thanks Mike, That will work for me and helps with my general education in FH. I will add those to my repertoire. So after some testing with the sentence structure her is what I settled on for birth and baptism on the same date with a priest and witnesses: {individual} was born {=TextIf( %FACT.DATE% ...

With respect to the following statement: The circumstances of a Birth and Baptism on the same day are interesting, and although they will have the same Date would they usually have different Place &/or Address details, and thus need two GEDCOM Facts? This is a tricky question to answer. In gener...

Back to the birth and baptismal facts. After successfully importing my TMG project I had a look at the specific birth facts that related to birth and baptism on the same day. Bear in mind that the church records were the official record records for saving souls and so the focus was on the baptismal ...

That thought about the birth fact did occur to me after I posted the note. I checked TMG and it was indeed being output as a an Event. I changed it and then re-imported my database. It seems to have fixed the problem. I thank you for your help on that issue. As for the concatenation issue, in TMG yo...

It has taken some time to carry out some pruning of my TMG database and doing several direct imports into FH in an attempt to understand the process. Let me start with an obvious example - the birth fact. Screen shot one is a view of the main screen for an individual - notice that there is no birth ...

A great deal of my research is focused on French-Canadian records. In my family tree there are a wide variation of names within the family tree which turned into their own branches. Any one familiar with "dit" names will be familiar with the issue. To use but one example, records relating ...

In preparation for the release of FH 7 I have been conducting some experiments on importing my data from TMG into FH6. In general, the import seems to work but I have come across a number of issues that I would like to sort out before I make my decision to move over to FH7 when it released. The firs...

This is the second time that I have installed and tried to make sense of FH. As I long time user of TMG I just found things so much easier to use, enter, manipulate, report, etc., etc., etc in TMG - perhaps because TMG is a true relational database not ham-stringed by the GEDCOM model. There are som...

Ok, I upgraded to 1.5.1. I then selected 5 items from the filter and did a simple move first field to address and shift all the place fields one to the left. The program ran but after more than 20 min it was still performing the task - on 5 place/address lines. Then all the screens except the FH mai...

I am running version 1.5, the only one in the plugin store that I can see. I have the latest version of FH 6.2.7. The program crashes without any error messages. I am running Win 10 with the latest updates and service packs. It seems to work fine on the sample project.