Family Historian User Group

Try creating a custom Source Template Query.

Use =LastUpdated() for the Updated column.

Helen’s point about unknown e-mail addresses may be a red herring, as messages are clearly shown as sent from FHUG in my experience. Perhaps it should also be made clear that if you send a PM, it exposes your actual registered e-mail address as the reply address. As you pointed out, any private mes...

Curious to see if any bookseller in the UK other than Amazon (which I boycott) will have the book for sale. EE's publisher has already told me if I want it in Canada I'll have to buy it from Jeff Bezos's monolith. I'm still not sure this new edition will convince me to return to ESM's citation styl...

Common courtesy, Mark? Plus common sense.

If I receive an unsolicited email from an address that I'm not familiar with, it's deleted unread.

Other people might report it as spam -- and the last thing Jane needs is for FHUG to be reported as a source of spam.

Mark, People may not have realised that receiving private messages is enabled by default; it's not uncommon for the admins to receive reports of private messages as unwanted, hence this post. Ideally, all contact would be via the forums, where it's available for other to learn from. If you're happy ...

tatewise wrote: ↑16 Mar 2024 12:56 In my defence m'lord, the OP said nothing about Strathclyde format or the Source generic Author field.

Sorry, Mike. I assumed the reference to an organisation made it clear.

Gary_G wrote: ↑16 Mar 2024 12:38 This is because (beyond the names of organizations) that field could contain one or more names. In the footnotes, this poses no issues. In the bibliography, only the first name is reversed. If it is the only author, it just ends in a period.

I feared that might be the case.

IMO Names should always be entered in Name fields using the FH/GEDCOM convention Given /Surname/ AFAIK, it's also factually incorrect. All I could find in GEDCOM 5.5.1 is The name value is formed in the manner the name is normally spoken, with the given name and family name (surname) separated by s...

I can't see any way other of handling this at present other than entering the Author as it should be displayed, not as it is... So Fred Bloggs would be entered as Bloggs, Fred. I can't remember (Gary_G will know) if there's a requirement for the names to be handled in different ways in e.g. a footn...

You're missing the point, Mike. Given that certain citation styles require the author field to be displayed as 'Surname, Forename.' if it's a personal author and 'Organisation.' if it's an Organisational Author, your opinion about how personal names should be entered isn't a lot of help. Example Aut...

Evidence Explained: Third Edition vs. Fourth Edition . I don't have a copy of the fourth edition yet -- waiting for an ebook to be available in the UK -- but will be interested to see how much it actually simplifies things. And whether the templates bear any resemblance to the ones I created for my...

Mike, I suspect we're talking about authors here, not Principals. In which case. Gary is right. Strathclyde says Where the author is a person then the name is given as surname followed by given name. Macdonald, Ian G.; Macdonald, Ian G.. Referencing for Genealogists (p. 31). The History Press. Kindl...

As a final thought, the Property Box could have great added value by incorporating "hot" (active) icons against Place (and Address, of course) to indicate the existence of Notes and Media. Hard to see where they'd fit alongside this lot 21446|Property box icons ! And as I said there, I'd ...

Using Mark and Hide in Diagrams illustrates the technique. It;s for an older version of FH, but still relevant.

I support this proposal.

Gary,

I'm sitting here watching others' experience, so thank you.

H

tatewise wrote: ↑14 Mar 2024 18:43 But what would happen if they did not use the same field names?

Defaults, Mike. Although my plugins (currently for private use) try various field names/types if possible before defaulting.

I used to be a diehard Evidence Explained afficionado. And now I'm wondering if (for my redo sometime anytime soon perhaps) I should adopt Strathclyde. Or maybe not -- there's another version available of Evidence Explained -- just waiting for a Kindle edition real soon now. Whatever I do, however, ...

tatewise wrote: ↑14 Mar 2024 17:06 a plugin that auto-completed such fields would need to be customised for each user's templates.

Umm.. No. Although it would be easier if customized templates used the same field names and types where possible,

My 'Where Used Record Links' plugin goes some way to illustrate what would be required. Is this New Wish List Request covered by Wish List Ref 635 Better ways to find where records are used as long as the Result Set details satisfied this particular usage case for Source Template records and Source...

Working for me, both logged in and logged out.

What was the search you were doing?

I don't believe there is -- sorry.

I don't have duplicate titles. I view images from different collection-repository combinations as different sources (since they are, technically; for example, different online providers have done their own imaging for e.g. censuses, with differing qualities).

Being realistic, this isn't going to get done any way except community sourcing. Are you talking about the Help text in the programme or the html conversion? If the HTML conversion, it looks as if it's done with https://www.helpwaregroup.com/products/far which hasn't been updated for 4 years, so it ...

tatewise wrote: ↑08 Mar 2024 17:03 That sounds good to me as long as 'user interface' includes the Help pages.

That's a big ask for community-sourcing. Plus Google Translate exists...