Family Historian User Group

Thanks! That was an easy edit.

I have noticed in 7.6.6 (64 bit) that the field Ref ID that appears on the Further Info tab is not being passed to the Text panel when you click Auto. Is this intentional, configurable or bug?

Thanks.

I too had a requirement for a chart from a named list. I was trying to visualize all the families in a locality that I had collected but were currently unconnected (a sort of a mini-one place study / family reconstituion). So here is what I did: Collected the people of interest into a named list Exp...

I have previously only used customised icons in charts on an ad hoc basis to identify ancestors with specific Occupations or having Wills for example. I am thinking I should maybe use them in a more structured way. Can someone advise on two things: If I want to track the country of birth and death, ...

It would be useful if we had a report/query that generated the ahnentafel labelling chart as described here https://www.danaleeds.com/labeling-dnagedcoms-new-collins-leeds-3d-clusters/ The labelling of the four grandparents (A to D) could be omitted but note the numeric labelling of the subsequent g...

I am interested to hear of the approaches others use for recording the denomination of a church where an event took place. We have the 'Religion' attribute that can be attached to an individual. When a marriage takes place the two parties could be from different denominations. The church itself wher...

Another option for an intermediate “helper” app might be RootsMagic. Getting a copy of your tree into RM (which has a free “Essentials” version that will be perfectly adequate) is quick and easy and they have a dedicated iOS app that reads the file directly. I tried the Android version of RootsMagi...

I have been revisiting the subject of timelines. There is a good use case for them if you are trying to piece together a wider family group and perhaps you have a few stray children with no apparent parents or trying to reconstitute a family in a locality. Being able to see who was alive when is rea...

Am I correct in thinking there is still content on the wiki pages that needs moving to the new Knowledge Base pages? In particular, I was looking for the Plugin Help pages Plugin Help and Advice which does not seem to have found its way across. The wiki pages don't get included in either the global ...

In theory no, but if the documents are not in the public domain i.e. are internal working documents, you are much more likely to get the document you need using an FOI. Otherwise you will probably get "sorry it has not been published" or "refer to our website".

Graham

Someone could try a FOI request, seems a pretty easy question for the GRO to answer? I would broaden it to give us the whole story of how these have evolved. You can do so here: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/new/general_register_office You may want to look through a few of the previous requests jus...

Here is the latest version 0.9 which I have also added to the Wiki page. Please be aware that Evernote uses some non-standard conventions with its own XML format (ENML). The product is also currently supporting two versions 6.x and 10.x. You need to have version 6.x installed for this plugin to work...

I think I have unravelled Evernote's handling of alignment in tables. It doesn't recognise <span style="text-align:right;"> although it does preserve it in the import and even exporting it again. It handles alignment like this <td style="text-align:right;"> so I have modified the...

As I suspected, we still have an issue with the Alignment section. If I, say, set align:right in the table the import fails. It generates a line: <div><tr><td> Task Description </td><td> <span style="text-align:right;">Status </td><td> Date Completed </td></tr></span></div> I thought I cou...

Thank you. That all works in my test file now. When I have confirmed a few other scenarios I'll post the updated plugin.

Graham

Mike, I have got back to some testing and trying to find how imports into Evernote fail. Usually when they do fail, Evernote puts its failed version of the enex with an error message in a temporary folder, but not always! URLs One of the ones that was puzzling me was things go wrong when the Researc...

My practice is to at least add the Head/Wife if there a not a lot, I do tend to add the other boarders/lodgers/visitors to my FH database. Once in a while they do become related later in my researches. If there were perhaps too many to add, I would still add the names in a note so that I had a chanc...

Mike, I am still working on testing what we have so far and trying to understand the quirks of how Evernote handles urls. One thing I have sorted, I have discovered that of <col> is used in a table Evernote doesn't require <colgropup> to be there but it does expect a closing tag </col> which is not ...

Evernote_to_do 0.9.2.fh_lua Here is a prototype version. Please read the discussion above and be aware that Evernote currently has its own problems whilst they are running two versions. This plugin will only work with version 6.x, 'Evernote Legacy'. The significant change in this version to previou...

Mike, thanks for your pointers on the extra <div> </div> tags and more careful formatting of my notes. I am now at a point where I have an Evernote file (enex) created, visually it appears to be correctly formatted but fails to actually import. As I mentioned earlier there are some issues with Evern...

Evernote is not happy with formats spanning several lines. It fails to import a gives an error, like: Opening and ending tag mismatch: b line 9 and div My duplicated and commented out line 61, is from my testing. It is just a convenient way of "backing up" before making changes, so when we...

Yes, I had added the <div> </div> to the plugin template. It might be redundant for the 'richtext' if subsequently they are added by some loop to each line after the FTF conversion. In my testing I have found that a heading tags e.g. <h3> </h3> don't actually need the <div> and </div> wrapper, but i...

I seem to have hit a little problem. When you enter a partial Registration District it presents a pop-up list of matches to select from. However, when you select the one you want to use it still uses the text you have entered in the first dialog. I am sure we would have noticed if this not working b...

Evernote uses a form of XHTML they call ENML. From their guide Applications that wish to store plaintext notes in Evernote must convert newlines into HTML-style blocks. To ensure that notes render correctly across clients, we recommend that you wrap each paragraph in a <div> element. For each blank ...

Funnily enough in some of my earlier researches when things were not working at all I started looking at the temp.enex file! Now when I remove the encoding function StrCP1252_XML and just use newData =prefix..fhGetValueAsRichText(dataPtr):GetText()..suffix it does not import at all, complaining ther...