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I also record what it actually says, not what I think it should say, using the following conventions: [ ] to enclose editorial insertions (my notes); {...} for text I can't decipher. The ... can indicate the number of illegible characters if that can be worked out, or can include my best guess. <> w...

Ok Helen, you may be happy to adjust your Notes just to satisfy Ancestry, but how am I supposed to know what all the other users would prefer to do? By asking, which is what you have done. Hopefully you'll get a range of opinions on which to base the solution. I accept you won't be able to please e...

Mike, we're all grateful to you for trying to stay on top of the changes in various destinations. My own preference is not to put anything into a citation unless it's a citation. I can probably change my long biographical notes to be short notes with a supporting media file. Although various destina...

tatewise wrote: ↑22 Jul 2024 09:41 However, what useful information do such facts bring to the Ancestry tree?

Facts without places or dates are valuable. In my case, I have religion facts that frequently have neither, and also biographical notes.

Would 23197|Custom Icon bar/tool bar address the problem -- or separating out a Plugins menu item? Re plugins starting with the same letter, are you aware that repeatedly typing the letter cycles through them? e.g. ALT-T-C-C-C if you've got multiple pinned plugins starting with C. (Doesn't help for ...

jelv wrote: ↑11 May 2024 21:00

John, can you clarify how your proposal differs substantially from the existing wish list item, enough to raise a new item?

davidf wrote: ↑07 Jun 2024 13:02

David, I think a customizable toolbar for plugins isn't covered by the existing wish list item. Do you want to start a standalone topic to discuss it?

This is a duplicate of Running FH from a USB Stick so I am closing it. Please vote for the existing wish list item.

Working with Places and Addresses does not highlight Glossary items such as place(s) and address(es) . In What are Places and Addresses? the item GEDCOM is not highlighted but a later GEDCOM is highlighted. Both the Place and Address glossary terms lead back to this article, so they aren't highligh...

Mike, can you check some of the less niche articles please -- i.e not in Writing PLugins.

Can people check whether the behaviour of the Glossary tooltips is better now? I've tweaked a few settings and think it's more reliable.

I'm not documenting the one known quirk, because there's no way for an author to know if a word will appear at the beginning of a line for any given reader.

Source numbering can't be relied upon to be sequential, so the absence of a number implies nothing. What report are you using? re: Edit: perhaps it's better practice to have the Source and Media present for just the one married person? Definitely not. Best practice would associate it with whatever F...

Like Adrian, I wouldn't create a custom template for what is likely to be a one off. I would use the Miscellaneous Unpublished Document/Artifact template from the Essentials collection, because that's exactly what you're dealing with. Use Author and Descriptive Title for Issuing Authority, and "...

With the report open, Use Save Report As and choose Custom Report.

Custom Reports

Even if there's other value in the banns source (I have an early nineteenth century one that idetifies both fathers by occupation and residence, which was really useful in working out which James and John families i was dealing with when theyre both really common surnames in Pembrokeshire) the actua...

tatewise wrote: ↑12 Jul 2024 13:56 But what would you do if the dates were different too?

ColeValleyGirl wrote: ↑12 Jul 2024 11:46 Pragmatically, assuming they were read on the same dates in both parishes, I'd create a single event and cite both sources.

I'd ask myself what's the value if recording the two place and address fields, when I'd have that information in the source if needed.

If they were read in two different churches, technically they were two different events...

Pragmatically, assuming they were read on the same dates in both parishes, I'd create a single event and cite both sources.

In this new article none of the early occurences of 'plugin' or 'WINE' are at the beginning of a line. They all seem to occur in the middle of normal text, so what are the other 'quirks'? As I said! "annoying undocumented quirks" There are a large number of occurrences of those glossary w...

The program that implements the glossary has some annoying undocumented quirks. It will not, for example, highlight a glossary word, if it's at the beginning of a line. It's been upgraded recently, so I suspect some more annoyances have crept in. I'll report them, but don't anticipate anything other...

Tonight I will watch the the video again as I would like to do things the intelligent way not the stupid way. The video is an excellent introduction to Sources and Citations within FH, but remember you do not need to use Ancestral Sources (which is a companion programme). Many people find it useful...

Would a rephrasing to something like “if a Windows user had created an \etc folder in a Z:\ local or mapped drive” be clearer? If there is a particular signature file that is always present in Mac OS, that would be better, but we need advice from our Mac users here. Yes. There is a PowerShell comma...

The most reliable method appears to be looking for the presence of a Z:\etc folder, where Z:\ is the WINE mapping of the root directory of the host OS, and the /etc directory is the standard location of configuration settings in Unix-derived systems. Clearly, this would flag a false positive if a W...

I think you might find this article Sources and Citations in Version 7 (for New Users) and/or this video All About Sources in Family Historian helpful to understand how FH handles Sources and Citations. As Mike has said, The Notes tab holds the Legacy Detail Information followed by the Legacy Detail...

post@stegemueller.dk wrote: ↑09 Jul 2024 15:57 Hello Mike

I am sorry but I can not get the same screens as you have.

Double click where I've highlighted.

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