Family Historian User Group

I use Irfanview and resize to 800 pixels on the longest edge i.e. portrait = 800 high or landscape = 800 wide. That generates files that are about 500K in size and are perfect for me to store in FH and later export to a TNG website. If you have a different destination for your media, such as reports...

Take a look at the relationship function

https://www.family-historian.co.uk/help ... nship.html

I use record-to-record links and put embedded individuals within the Research Note so that I can get to their record quickly from within the note, but others may think that's too much work The quickest way to embed Individual links into a Research Note is to drag the Individuals name from the Recor...

I don't think you can get an actual record link into a Records Window or Query column. The best that can be achieved is the name of the linked record in plain text. To get that you must prefix each link with unique text all within one paragraph. e.g. Link1: Fred Smith Link2: Jane Jones Then =GetLab...

I use a simple approach for a To Do list after trying FH built-in Research Notes and getting frustrated with it all. I created a custom To Do fact and added it as a custom field on the main property box screen. The field is large enough for quick one-line notes but can be expanded (with a double cli...

This gets all the names into the correct order but it does not include spaces between the names i.e. WardleJohnWilliam =CombineText(Section(Section(%SOUR%,2,","),4," "),Section(Section(%SOUR%,2,","),2," "),Section(Section(%SOUR%,2,","),3," "...

If you right click a fact in the property box you will see a "Fact Flags" option.

This allows you to mark a fact as Private/Preferred/Tentative/Rejected.

You could mark duplicate facts as tentative then change to Preferred if later proven, or Rejected if dis-proven.

Mark

You have my support too.

I use source templates and think this would be a great asset.

This will return the first name - %INDI.NAME[1]% This will return the second name - %INDI.NAME[2]% and so on By first name I don't mean a persons given names, I mean [1] will find their usual name shown in the property box and [2] will find their first Alternate Name you have entered using the +More...

Yes working again for me now

Just a simple one-word search for places

I am seeing SQL errors when I try to search the Wish List. Can anyone else confirm this? You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MariaDB server version for the right syntax to use near '[phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file /home/taubmano/fhug.org.uk/wishl...' at...

Take a look at the =GetLabelledText function. It can be used in filter lines of a query to look inside notes and pick out the data stored meta fields. https://www.family-historian.co.uk/help/fh7/hh_start.htm#function_getlabelledtext.html It would search for a meta field called "Minister:" ...

You could create custom facts within FH for each of the data items you want to capture. You could also customise the property box to include your new facts in the Main tab or even in a new tab, perhaps creating a data entry form to mirror the death certificates you have. However I do not think it is...

Perhaps the question is not about creating queries but saving and loading custom layouts as queries.

See https://www.family-historian.co.uk/help ... ialog.html

See https://www.fhug.org.uk/kb/kb-article/h ... w-columns/

Perhaps this query as a starting point and adapt to your needs: Citation Details

Not that I can think of but perhaps a clipboard manager would help speed up the copy/paste process a little.

Nick The initial capital letter issue in the Place field is now working properly. The previous ID is retained in the Find ID box, although it doesn't quite work as you describe. It doesn't highlight when the cursor enters the box but does highlight when double clicked. Still fine by me as long as th...

Fine by me

I didn’t start with FH until V6 then upgraded to V7. I previously held my research notes in Evernote but hoped to integrate my research planning into FH when I heard of the new facilities being introduced. I am still struggling to see how I can properly make it work and suspect most users previous t...

I am seeing the same.

I may occasionally create a Research Note from the records window but in general most of my research thoughts will be had when I am working on an individual in their property box. The process of actually creating a Research Note is rather convoluted requiring 5 mouse clicks: Add Note > Shared Resear...

Nick Another observation about v7.8.3 The Find ID: field in the top RH corner is being cleared after each save. (It was retained in v7.8.2). I found it useful when the last used ID was retained. If working on a family with close ID numbers it would only need a quick edit to find the next person in m...

Nick I have noticed a small problem in v7.8.3. Using the Census entry screen - begin typing in the Place field in lower case and AS fetches the potential place names as I type however the Initial capital letter is lost, with the start of the place name now showing in lower case, with the remaining c...

Me too