Family Historian User Group

I have (e.g. by adding a date to Reference Number) - they are discarded silently, without flagging the error…

This arises from a significant difference in design between RM and FH. FH takes as its starting point a strict adherence to GEDCOM. As a result, it distinguishes between Events (which generally have a date and place, but no value, such as Birth), Attributes (which generally have date, place, and val...

Holborn is part of the London Borough of Camden, which also extends to much of the surrounding area, so it is likely that Peter was born within its modern boundaries. Checking online, they appear to refer all applications for copies of pre-1940 certificates to the GRO and no longer offer a search of...

Welcome to FHUG, Eleanor. Have to checked both FreeBMD and the GRO’s own online catalogue, including spelling and name variations? They are independent compilations, so you need to check both. It might be worth also checking the local Registration Office for where he was born, just in case it was mi...

How about a plugin option where the user sets their own error message? They can say whatever they like without having to get it past the plugin police...

Would it work to require that the project is saved before running, copy the GEDCOM file and save it back before closing? However, it's a bit of a kludge and don't force the user to reload the GEDCOM.

There is no API access to Edit > Undo Plugin Changes, which would be better.

Columns displayed as item data (Records) update dynamically, but text and numerical data don’t. It creates a limitation in using either plugins or built-in menu options to tabulate detailed data (such as source citations) to check for consistency or omissions, as the display has to be regenerated wh...

The challenge in drafting a new Wish List item will be to recognise that output from either plugins or FH menu options can never be completely consistent with Query or Record Window displays, as the latter are fully dynamic and reflect changes in the underlying data, while the former are largely sta...

I think Lorna's interpretation is correct. In fact, that is the method usually advised here for sorting on multiple columns - sort in order, least significant first, and the previous sequence is maintained. Tested by sorting on birth place, which is in the middle of my records window, then by death ...

Thanks for that. There isn't anything in particular that sticks out as a likely cause. I didn't ask where your default Project Folder is located, but it might be worth checking if the problem still occurs if you locate the RM file in the Public subfolder within your project folder. If that doesn't f...

Agree - these simple citations are all that’s required . Remember that the primary purpose of a citation is to identify where the source was/can be obtained for verification. It is not for reproducing the contents of the source. Simple versus detailed citations is a choice of personal style and pref...

That's an odd one. It is suggesting that the error is with the fhSQL library that processes the RM file, but it's not one I've seen before. Is this the first time you have used the plugin, or has it worked normally up until now? If it has suddenly stopped working, has anything changed on your system...

Another option for this type of change is to edit the GEDCOM file directly using a plain text editor (even Windows Notepad is fine) once you have changed the actual file names. It's only suitable if there is a distinct string that doesn't occur elsewhere in your project. In my case, all my 1939 Medi...

Your background sounds similar to mine - BASIC on the HP85 (anybody else remember those?) and SQL for an Oracle database in the 1980s, then Access/VBA, all as incidental elements of a technology R&D career, plus some largely self-taught C/C++ for fun to dabble with a “proper” language using the ...

You've left one question unanswered - this type of plugin is how most authors start. It's only a handful of lines, and a good introduction to the basics. The plugin help gives a very readable introduction, and if you have VBA experience, you're partway there already. Any enthusiasm for dipping a toe...

Note also that the Short Footnote is grossly inadequate if you have two people with the same name, of course! Dates and places presumably ought to appear there as well. Playing Devil’s Advocate ;), why? If the Fact is John Smith, born 1 Jan 1923, Somewhere, Somewhereshire, and the citation is to Ci...

I take a “necessary and sufficient” approach, rather than following an arbitrary standard, with a limited Source Title (what, when, who, where) followed by a transcript of the key text. GRO Birth Certificate: 1869 - Arthur Poole, Ranton, Staffordshire 17 Sep 1869 - Ranton, Arthur, Boy, f = (blank), ...

You’re asking the wrong people. We’re just ordinary users like yourself and have no insight to CP’s logic and future plans.

If they’re not to your liking, I suggest you ask CP directly using their Support Ticket system.

True, we should probably settle on “non-Latin” as the preferred term, as it has a recognised definition. “Common” is a bit subjective, and “foreign” is meaningless when the author and reader may be of different nationalities.

Minor clarification, which I’m sure I’ve made before… :) Plugins need the additional UTF functions to process non-Latin characters, not “accented or foreign ones”. It’s not necessary for the common Western European diacritics, and what’s “foreign” viewed from a desk in Devon or Cheshire may not be f...

Another possibility is that it will convert all the names in one pass, but is only capable of displaying some of them. In that case, there is no option to review the rest of the names. I'm away from the desk until this evening so can't review the code to see what it is doing, but I agree that it sho...

Ah - ok. Assuming the plugin does actually change the listed names, the solution would be to delete the truncated last entry, then repeat with successive plugin runs until all the names are converted. Ideally, the plugin should identify why it has failed, but this type of simple plugin doesn't neces...

That is how it is designed to work. The plugin description in the Plugins Window tells you that it "allows over-ride at runtime by prompting the converted surnames for confirmation." Options for this type of simple plugin are rather limited: Make all changes unconditionally. Quick and simp...

I have been reviewing my Commonwealth War Graves Commission sources (which have their own custom template) to add the original documents that are being uploaded. Individual sources can support either a standard Burial fact if there is a known grave (e.g. shot down air-crew), or a custom Memorial fac...

Or the via Windows version - don’t be fooled by the name, it works on Macs and Linux too