Family Historian User Group

This has been discussed many times before, and I was only trying to explain that FH did not have a shortcut for today's date because the GEDCOM definition for Citation Entry Date is not intended for today's date, so being 100% GEDCOM compatible Calico Pie saw no need for it. I don't think that is s...

What are the map settings under Tools->Preferences->Map Window. Mine is set to OpenStreetMap and is ok.

Assuming that the touchpad on my laptop fails, as it has done before, are there any keyboard shortcuts that can be used instead of the 'click in a field' to set the cursor focus. For example, I know that to open the Automatic Source Citation I can use F10, T,A, but how can I get the cursor into the ...

I have re-run my process, and it appears that my step 4 unconnected records was not ticked, as it has now produced what I expected. I have a very good reason for doing the split, and for the moment I will keep both the master and the subset running under FH 6.2.7 Projects. The master will still be e...

I am trying to extract approx 6000 individuals and all their data from a 'master' gedcom in FH6.2.7 which contains nearly 170,000 individuals, create a new project called say subset, and eventually remove those 6000 from the 'master' when I am satisfied that it is all correct in the subset project g...

I have been one of those users who has been exporting from Family Historian, since v3, and importing into TNG since 2003! Over the years I have changed my processes and now try and do a weekly or bi-weekly update of my 'privatised' data from FH 6.2.7 to TNG v12.1. I do not bring the data back from T...

Mike, I am well aware of those options as I have been using FH for over 15 years. I suppose I should have asked Helen, if at Task/Note/Fact creation will those Research Note/Facts be automatically created with the [[ ]] or optionally per Research Note? I would hate to 'forget' to privatise one, and ...

Now this looks like something that I have been wanting for a long time! However, a question if I may ask? What will happen to these Research Notes or Facts when a gedcom is exported for say, sending to another family member, or uploading to a website? Is there, or will there be, a method of optional...

I have used FH and TNG for many years, but do my updates in a different way, which may give some pointers. TNG must have the 8bit Gedcom and not the 16bit, so make sure that you are saving or exporting the 8bit flavour. I run xampp 64bit(php 7.2) on my Windows 10 64 bit pc, and firstly import my ged...

Have you looked at https://booth.lse.ac.uk/map/16/-0.0221/ ... 340,181581 for possily finding the street?

Reporting back....... By NOT deleting all [[private] notes in the Split Tree helper, and using the Export Gedcom Plugin to do that task, it looks like my initial issue has been resolved! Thanks, Mike, even if you didn't do anything, using you as the second sounding and thought board worked. I will n...

Thanks for coming back to me, Mike. I first noticed the issue in the What's New section in TNG, and spent a couple of hours trying to track down the issue in their code, and then noticed the changedate in the person's table was not the same as in my FH. Having read your response to me, I am now wond...

I am using FH 6.2.6 and the Export Gedcom Plugin v3.5 which I use to create a TNG UTF8 gedcom for import into TNG. I have picked up an anomally in that the plugin is reading the original 1 CHAN date and time in the Individual records in the source gedcom and changing it to the date and time of the r...

Coming in late on this one.... For a long time now I have been using a programme called Beyond Compare by Scooter Software to keep a copy my 'master' on my Windows 7 laptop in sync with the working 'master' on a Windows 10 Desktop. I connect both together via ethernet cables into my router/switch an...

Bill, I use a free download app - Genealogica Grafica - which you can find on the web at http://www.genealogicagrafica.nl/download.htm It does all sorts of checks on a gedcom file, including erroneous dates, duplicate birth entries, etc, as well as what you want. Check the errors in the pop up messa...

John, Mike, I have set the Private flag in FH for those whom I do not want to export to TNG, and use a Query to list them, so that in Split Tree Helper I check 'Delete All individuals FOUND by the query' and then under Other Records toggle each selection to read Delete records with no links left to ...

John, I have been using the FH and TNG combo for many years, and use Mike's Export Plugin to assist. First thing I do after making backup in FH, is to load the renamed backup.ged file into FH and then run the Split Tree Helper. You can choose to ONLY delete the Named lists there, but can also be ver...

Cause of Death is combined in the Death fact - open facts for the individual, click the death event, and there should be a line for cause.

Open Source Maps appear to be displaying the maps in the written language of that country, ie Russian in Russia, Mandarin in China, Hebrew in Israel, Greek in Greece, etc. Is there an option to have the display in a 'home' language, for all countries, ie all place names on the map in the recognized ...

Ok, maybe there is another bug - I cannot copy the latitude data from a text file and paste it, add the comma and then copy the longitude data from the same text file and paste that. ie concatenating the data into the field by two pastes. It will not accept an incomplete lat/long pair, and throws it...

Under Tools -> Preferences -> General, my latitude and Longitude Format is set to Numeric from the dropdown. Apply, then OK. In Places, select a place record. Right Click and select Add lat/Long. Select the ... at the end of the input field to pop-up the input window. Input format defaults as Deg-Mi...

How would Calico Pie like us to report Bugs found in their latest version? How can we find what bugs have already been reported?

Hi Mike, I think your initial proposal to offer a Media Record with Relative File links option in the Plugin will be fine, and yes, I will help with testing, etc., if required. Most TNG users seem to use it as their main genealogy package, and add/update info directly through their admin functions o...

Morning Mike, From what I have understood, TNG stores the 'Face/Detail Frame' info in the Media record with a link to the person or persons as there can be multiple 'tags' to people in that single photo, rather like Picassa. When you mouse-over that image map, it pops up the person name and if click...

Thanks, the Delete Redundant Link Notes plugin fixed that and 9 others that it found, and the Export Gedcom file now runs through to completion. Question: in Export Gedcom File, is there an option to retain the relative Media paths, ie Media\marriagecerts\Mandy_Tarr_marriage.jpg or Media\baptisms\No...