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[LABELS:] and [:LABELS] are part of the internal TMG syntax describing roles. I suspect there is either (1) a bug in FH’s TMG import code or (2) a corruption of the TMG data that the FH importer doesn’t handle.

As of version 1.79 released 19 January 2024, ORA now provides predefined templates for automating data entry from eight Findmypast UK census collections into Ancestral Sources . ORA is an automated assistant for use with online repositories including Ancestry, FamilySearch, Findmypast, General Regis...

Mike, Thanks for your help. I read the post you linked, and tried adding angle brackets a couple places. After a couple failures, I enclosed the entire template in angle brackets and that produced the desired result. <{Site_Owner}<, "{Collection_Title}"><, online {Collection_URL}>> That wo...

I am having trouble with spaces in a Source Template. I have a Source Template with the following Footnote template: {Site_Owner}<, "{Collection_Title}"><, online {Collection_URL}> When viewing a citation in the citation window, the resulting Footnote text is: Ancestry.com , "Arizona,...

I am working with thousands of entries using the online Genealogy SA databases which use the DD-MMM-YYYY format. In the past I have sucked it up and manually transcribed the date while being able to cut and paste all other text. I had no idea the wish list existed until recently and it would be lov...

Mike, I don't know why Carl saw the behavior he described. I can't diagnose it without more information, and Carl and I communicating here for GedSite support is a bad idea. I don't monitor the FH Forum for GedSite issues and I've had my wrist slapped a few times already for GedSite-support related ...

Carl, et al, To answer a question from earlier in the thread, GedSite does implement the FH Witness() function. Also, regarding pronoun use, GedSite has several settings that control when/if it will use pronouns in place of names. Those settings are in the Data.Names section. The issue with the AgeA...

In the last few days I've had some email exchanges with John about the sentence renderings I was getting with my FH exports on my GedSite site. He was very helpful, and I was making progress, until he abruptly stopped, and told me to figure it out myself. I guess I asked too many dumb questions, or...

OK, but you presumably had to jump through hoops to cope with the FH V7 changes as they are not backwards compatible. Other product developers may not be so accommodating. Yeah, this sort of thing is definitely a hassle. In this specific case, the actual changes were minimal, but deciding what to c...

There is also a knock-on consequence for Projects exported to other products that has not been mentioned. Some products such as GedSite recognise Sentence Template codes and interpret them appropriately. GedSite would now have to recognise whether the Project was being exported from FH V6 or FH V7 ...

... I am curious why there needs to be a difference given a user could put a period and space before a {note} with <. {note}>. ... But in the nicest possible way - why should I, given that I've never had to carry out any special handling like that beforehand? I don't understand this comment at all....

Mike, Disclaimer: As you know, I am not a regular user of FH and so my knowledge and recall of FH details is spotty. With regards to needing/wanting {note} for some text and {inline-note} for others, I thought users could override the sentence template for a particular fact. If so, then I guess the ...

Thank you. I am curious why there needs to be a difference given a user could put a period and space before a {note} with <. {note}>. I assume there are other issues. I am more curious about how to handle {inline-note} if the note text includes "rich text" and thus may contain content that...

What are the practical differences between {note} and {inline-note}? FH help says: Code: {note} Inserts the note, if any, associated with the relevant fact. Is most suitable for long notes, such as notes which contain one or more whole sentences. The {note} code is normally the last code in the sent...

You wrote, "BUT template 3 is now entering an Address." What is the evidence that template 3 is doing that? Based on the template, I see no address data. When you watch the Auto Type template in action, do you see any address data entered into the field? The template appears to leave the w...

Hello readers especially Rick, I have been using ORA for about two years now and it has saved me a lot of time. Also the import is now more accurate although if the Citations etc are setup correctly some information can be lost. Genie 15, Can you expand on your comment above? I don't know what &quo...

Steven, You could upload web pages to a web server and put the pages behind a login prompt so that only your family (or anyone else you authorize) could access them. My GedSite program will make the web pages for you, and my FamilyHistoryHosting web hosting service will publish the pages and provide...

To expand on the solution provided by GedSite 4.01... I am not an FH expert so I may not use terminology 100% correctly. GedSite builds citations and source page entries using FH Source Templates. The templates include references to fields such as "{Author}", "{Title}", "{Pa...

I am using FH7 source templates and I have a source with text in the Text from Source field. I'd like to include that text in the footnote. How is that done? Do I need to use a data reference?

The current version of GedSite does not support some new features in FH7. If a source uses FH7 source templates, the GEDCOM file does not include the records that GedSite uses to create source entries. The good news is, I am mostly done with modifications to support new features in FH7 including sou...

Reading the posting by James Tanner, two things caught my attention: (1) he overlooks GEDCOM 5.5.1 completely! (2) he suggests that date phrases, ranges and periods did not exist before! I wonder how long it will take for products to adopt GEDCOM 7.0 since few have fully adopted GEDCOM 5.5/5.5.1 ye...

I was forced into a reboot without warning, luckily, the blue screen was brought up, and I had the option to force close and reboot anyway , or return to Windows, I chose to return to Windows, where I was faced with the do you want to reboot now or later message box from FH. That reboot behavior al...

When you make a change to a TMG Tag Type, the effect is immediate. Tags (names and events) keep a pointer to the Tag Type record and so there is no need for TMG to update tag instances due to a change to the Tag Type record. There may be an exception related to deleting roles, but that's not an issu...

So avoid performing the Address trimming in Lua script because commas may appear to exist within UTF-8 multi-byte encodings. Only use the FH trimming functions. Mike, UTF-8 was carefully designed such that the value of any ASCII character (< 0x7F) would not appear as a byte value within a multi-byt...

I have seen RESN in GEDCOM files exported from FTM. I have not seen them elsewhere, but there are a lot of FTM users. I just added RESN tests to GEDCOM Assessment and I will be releasing a new version later today that includes those tests. Within a few weeks, the existing assessments will be updated...