Family Historian User Group

A bit of feedback for the help or FAQ page of the plugin... I was trying out the plugin and it occurred to me that there was never any discussion of whether the plugin is set up to cite the database or the actual image of the index page (when available). The reason I raise this is that database resu...

John;

Would it be possible to incorporate the additional Citation Assessment methodology that is usually accessed from the assessment pulldown as "<more options...>? Some of us are using that set of metric instead.

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John; Thanks for the release of the update. Regarding the template version... I agree with Mike that employing templates will require a mapping mechanism between your data and the fields of the user template. There is one other thing that is likely necessary. For predictable operation; the plugin wo...

Mark; What you stated was essentially what I said more briefly. I've corresponded with the FreeBMD project people and know precisely what sources they use. I also am aware (as I noted) that the GRO has been backfilling some of the missing info over the years that I've been using it. As only they hav...

Mark and Adrian; I agree with you about being too specific, but one does need to reflect the parameters upon which one can search a given database. eg. On the GRO site, this includes mother's maiden name, age at death etc. On FreeBMD the parameters available are a bit different and likely the sae is...

As you've probably found births before 1911 can have the mother's maiden name. And even if we managed to determine what the exact state is (best summarised as confusing) it will probably change. I've recently found a birth with year of birth only. That's why the approach I've taken is to always hav...

I am still evaluating whether to look at using a generic or a templated citation. The following are just my thoughts on the matter, as changing later on would involve a lot of rework. Hopefully someone finds it useful in making their own decision. The information content of the GRO Indices has chang...

John; As you and Mike noted, and as I suspected, templates mean that the GEDCOM will not be "standard". However; there are, as you itemized, still a lot of things that the plugin can do and a bare template cannot. Let me know if you need other examples or have additional plug-in versions t...

Mike; If I understood John correctly, it is very important to him that the GEDCOM resulting from using his plugin associates the entered data elements with the correct GEDCOM tag. Because of the way templates work, is this really possible when using a user template? I know that in RootsMagic, using ...

John;
I have sent you an email containing the example. Feel free to post it or just try it out, as you wish.
I felt that it would be best to let you see if it was what you needed, first, rather than clutter the thread.

John;

I have some split BMD Index templates that I should be able to rework to lumped ones in short order.
Would that help?

Thanks, Helen. I like the concept. I'll look at your website to see how they look.

Mike;

I was just trying to get an idea of what it does as the description in the plugin store is obviously lacking.
Guess I'll have to wait until it's upgraded for FH7 and I can actually see it in action.

There may be some slight confusion in using the word template in the context of generic Source Citations. Generic Source Citations have a structure, just like all other FH/GEDCOM data, but no template is involved. Mike; I was referring to the "template" defined in the file loaded by the p...

Helen; Thank you for the suggestion. I'm using v7 of FH, so I'll have to wait until you do the upgrade to fully assess the situation and see how to proceed. I had a quick look at the features of the plugin, as well as the code. The code somehow looks familiar to me. I've programmed in many languages...

Thank you, Mike.
Playing with John's GRO Index plugin peaked my interest and I thought I'd try to learn a bit more about Generic Sources before getting too far into my data-entry.

Just a background/side-question question to build up my knowledge of how Generic Sources work and help me decide when to use them... Do all the fields on a Generic Sources map to standard GEDCOM fields that the majority of Genealogy programs should interpret correctly? Are there any good Knowledge-B...

Thanks, Mike. That may solve one potential issue. If I understand correctly, one would have to customize the generic template to incorporate that switch logic. However; the customization would then still be global to all generic templates; wouldn't it? It would definite work to replace setting the c...

Here is a bit more polished version that seems to have the key info needed to relocate a record; even if one wishes to use an alternate source for the index. John; Does this make sense to you? Footnote England & Wales Birth Index [GRO Website] . 1872 Q4 Oct-Nov-Dec Bath Vol: 05C Page: 677. Cit. ...

John; If one turns on "Text from Source" for the Footnotes in the Generic Citation Configuration Menu, then the Mother's Maiden Name or Age at death will appear in the citations. This makes it immediately visible; something we chatted about earlier. I'm not well-enough versed in Generic So...

With Respect to where to include the mother's maiden name... How about appending it to the "Citation-specific Details" > "Where Within" data that now holds something like "1872 Q4 Oct-Nov-Dec Bath Vol: 05C Page: 677"? It could look like "1872 Q4 Oct-Nov-Dec Bath V...

I've spent all morning trying to find a way to automatically open the drop downs in a way that wouldn't bemuse the user. All get sticky when a new district name is being entered so I'm giving up on that for now. If you use the dropdown arrow on the list to open it the mouse pointer remains visible ...

John; With Respect to where to include the mother's maiden name... How about appending it to the "Citation-specific Details" > "Where Within" data that now holds something like "1872 Q4 Oct-Nov-Dec Bath Vol: 05C Page: 677"? It could look like "1872 Q4 Oct-Nov-Dec B...

jelv wrote: ↑09 May 2024 23:31 Experimenting I've just found that Alt down arrow opens the list at the point matching the characters keyed so far.

That's handy to know. Thank you, John.

John; When in the Main data-entry screen, one would think that typing the name of the registration district in the "District" field would automatically open a pull-down with the existing places that are a potential match. That would avoid one continuing to type, when the place has already...