Thanks, Mike. That was a nice summary. I will print it out and keep it handy.
A good overview is at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEDCOM
This page also includes links to more detailed information including the spec.
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- 10 Apr 2020 13:10
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Duplicated Source Text in Ancestor Report Footnote
- Replies: 33
- Views: 15687
- 09 Apr 2020 23:30
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Duplicated Source Text in Ancestor Report Footnote
- Replies: 33
- Views: 15687
Re: Duplicated Source Text in Ancestor Report Footnote
I think I know what the numbers mean, but I have been wrong before.
- 09 Apr 2020 23:09
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Duplicated Source Text in Ancestor Report Footnote
- Replies: 33
- Views: 15687
Re: Duplicated Source Text in Ancestor Report Footnote
Thanks for your help and to others who helped also. This discussion has improved my understanding of FTM and also led to quite a bit of cleaning up of my data.
- 09 Apr 2020 22:24
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Duplicated Source Text in Ancestor Report Footnote
- Replies: 33
- Views: 15687
Re: Duplicated Source Text in Ancestor Report Footnote
So the definition of a Citation is that it is a link to a Source , which means it (the Citation ) has a GEDCOM line like n SOUR @Sm@ where n does not equal 0. A Source has a GEDCOM line like 0 @Sm@ SOUR . ( m refers to the number assigned to the Source ). The word "Source" when it appears ...
- 09 Apr 2020 21:43
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Cleaning up data
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6523
- 09 Apr 2020 19:31
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Duplicated Source Text in Ancestor Report Footnote
- Replies: 33
- Views: 15687
Re: Duplicated Source Text in Ancestor Report Footnote
As an added note, now that I have used the Where Used Records Links more, I see the reason I thought there was no Citation Note column is that if you pull the horizontal scroll bar to the right, it pops back. You have to pull it several times to actually get to the right.
- 09 Apr 2020 19:15
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Duplicated Source Text in Ancestor Report Footnote
- Replies: 33
- Views: 15687
Re: Duplicated Source Text in Ancestor Report Footnote
Kenneth, your screenshot shows an INDIVIDUAL record [351] for Thomas WELLES . EVERYTHING displayed there is completely separate from the SOURCE record [4] . Not really, it has a Source in it. The entity named Source is a CITATION that points to the SOURCE record History of the Welles Family in Engl...
- 09 Apr 2020 16:45
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Duplicated Source Text in Ancestor Report Footnote
- Replies: 33
- Views: 15687
Re: Duplicated Source Text in Ancestor Report Footnote
I am getting more confused. There is a Citation Note column. If I click on it and select Properties I get what is on this screenshot. Why is there a Note on a Source for which I have no Note SourceNoteIssue.jpg Answer my own question: The screenshot was from the uncorrected file. That Note is no lon...
- 09 Apr 2020 16:18
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Duplicated Source Text in Ancestor Report Footnote
- Replies: 33
- Views: 15687
Re: Duplicated Source Text in Ancestor Report Footnote
Mike, yes, I used the word Citation where I should have used Source (as FH uses the terms). In science, I would call the sources references, and a citation is usually when someone references your paper. It's a matter of semantics, but I agree the proper semantics here are the ones FH uses. Your expl...
- 08 Apr 2020 22:46
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Duplicated Source Text in Ancestor Report Footnote
- Replies: 33
- Views: 15687
Re: Duplicated Source Text in Ancestor Report Footnote
I did go back and install the Where Used Record Links plugin today. Of course I now know to look on the second page, but looking at it today I am more inclined to blame myself not finding it. I did go to the plug-ins store twice looking for it unsuccessfully, though. It was probably because I was no...
- 08 Apr 2020 03:43
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Duplicated Source Text in Ancestor Report Footnote
- Replies: 33
- Views: 15687
Re: Duplicated Source Text in Ancestor Report Footnote
When you joined last November you would have been advised to study how_to:key_features_for_newcomers|> Key Features for Newcomers . It is worth returning there from time to time, and in the Introduction 2nd paragraph it gives tips for posting questions, replies, screenshots , etc, by reference to i...
- 07 Apr 2020 17:28
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Duplicated Source Text in Ancestor Report Footnote
- Replies: 33
- Views: 15687
Re: Duplicated Source Text in Ancestor Report Footnote
No, it is much simpler than that, and the double quotes are the clue. I thought it was just a typo that the OP had left out the double quotes in the replicated Source entry. But the Note has no double quotes and that is what is appearing under the Source Author "Title" (Publication). A sc...
- 07 Apr 2020 03:59
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Duplicated Source Text in Ancestor Report Footnote
- Replies: 33
- Views: 15687
Re: Duplicated Source Text in Ancestor Report Footnote
Ok, the problem seems to be that there is a @S4@ and a NOTE. It's too late now. I'll look at it tomorrow.
- 07 Apr 2020 03:37
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Duplicated Source Text in Ancestor Report Footnote
- Replies: 33
- Views: 15687
Re: Duplicated Source Text in Ancestor Report Footnote
Hi Mike, I just saw your reply. I apparently forgot to subscribe. In most forums you don't have to for your own posts. There is only one Source for this item in the Records window. (First thing I checked.) There is no Short Title , just Author , Title , Publication Information . Ibid. is checked in ...
- 01 Apr 2020 21:35
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Duplicated Source Text in Ancestor Report Footnote
- Replies: 33
- Views: 15687
Duplicated Source Text in Ancestor Report Footnote
I am getting a footnote in the Ancestors By Generation report (for one source only) that has the text written twice. This is what I get: Albert Welles, President of the American College of Heraldry and Genealogical Registry of New York, "History of the Welles Family in England and Normandy"...
- 02 Dec 2019 15:17
- Forum: Plugin Technical Support & Development
- Topic: Issues with Clean Up Notes
- Replies: 30
- Views: 14434
Re: Issues with Clean Up Notes
I have thought of one possible cause. I did look at the Program Data in a text editor at one time. I often leave those open. That could have prevented writing. The argument against this is that the data were not there and should have been when I first opened it. I am pretty sure I didn't close it du...
- 02 Dec 2019 14:01
- Forum: Plugin Technical Support & Development
- Topic: Issues with Clean Up Notes
- Replies: 30
- Views: 14434
Re: Issues with Clean Up Notes
Hi Mike, I'm sorry but I don't have more time available to work on this. I actually like doing this sort of thing, but I have already spent more time on FH than I can justify, and I have other committments, which I can no longer ignore. I can't say I'm infallible after getting the compare backwards ...
- 02 Dec 2019 00:03
- Forum: Plugin Technical Support & Development
- Topic: Issues with Clean Up Notes
- Replies: 30
- Views: 14434
Re: Issues with Clean Up Notes
Now it's not remembering after I load it to the Project List. FH has stayed up. I have closed and reopened the Search and Replace window. After loading it, it isn't there the next time. It's still in the Program List, though,
I have to go now.
I have to go now.
- 01 Dec 2019 23:56
- Forum: Plugin Technical Support & Development
- Topic: Issues with Clean Up Notes
- Replies: 30
- Views: 14434
Re: Issues with Clean Up Notes
I did this multiple times, including three just now. It worked the last time. This morning it was definitely in the Program List for the test file. When I opened it now the first time, it was not. It was there the second time I opened the test file, but it was not there for the real file when I open...
- 01 Dec 2019 17:33
- Forum: Plugin Technical Support & Development
- Topic: Issues with Clean Up Notes
- Replies: 30
- Views: 14434
Re: Issues with Clean Up Notes
Thanks. I should have found the Plugin Data folder, but I apparently missed it. I also should have read the Help more carefully. I did look at the Manage Preset page. I missed the explanation of the Program List, or more likely, I was not aware plugin settings were project specific, so it might not ...
- 01 Dec 2019 03:14
- Forum: Plugin Technical Support & Development
- Topic: Issues with Clean Up Notes
- Replies: 30
- Views: 14434
Re: Issues with Clean Up Notes
Hi Mike, Thanks for the information. I went back and redid my changes using the ¶ pattern and also replacing as well as searching. It was much easier this time. This is what I found: ¶¶ only finds blank lines in the middle of a note. ¶$ finds the ones at the end. Also I didn't really guess that sear...
- 30 Nov 2019 01:23
- Forum: Plugin Technical Support & Development
- Topic: Issues with Clean Up Notes
- Replies: 30
- Views: 14434
Re: Issues with Clean Up Notes
Ok, I'll try that. I do see the newlines in the All tab are represented by ¶. I understand the .*. I didn't know what you meant by newline. Usually you enter a string of some sort in a Regex search box, not type a CR. I don't know about Lua. I also had the question if a blank line at the end of a so...
- 30 Nov 2019 00:07
- Forum: Plugin Technical Support & Development
- Topic: Issues with Clean Up Notes
- Replies: 30
- Views: 14434
Re: Issues with Clean Up Notes
^$ won't find blank lines but completely empty Notes. That surprises me. I guess it depends on how you are storing them internally. I am trying to find empty lines both in and at the end. If I can just get notes with empty lines, I can double-click to fix them. When I get all notes, clicking them t...
- 29 Nov 2019 21:03
- Forum: Plugin Technical Support & Development
- Topic: Issues with Clean Up Notes
- Replies: 30
- Views: 14434
Re: Issues with Clean Up Notes
Thanks, that works. Except the results have ... instead of showing the whole note, and they only have a blank where the CR is, so it doesn't help with my problem. I assume I could fix it to just find ones with blank lines. I tried using ^$ as the pattern but got no hits. I have to go right now. I ca...
- 29 Nov 2019 18:22
- Forum: Plugin Technical Support & Development
- Topic: Keep Query from being overwritten.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6955
Re: Keep Query from being overwritten.
I absolutely missed that. I only saw the Close Window button. Even when I was looking for it. I see the Help is really extensive. I wasn't expecting that for a plugin. As I said before, following links doesn't work well for me. I'm much better at skimming a single page. However, if I have trouble ag...