Family Historian User Group

We prefer people use this link to add downloads to the KB: Add/Update a Download

It allows us to collect all the info we need in a structured fashion.

Mark,

my use case is:

• planning to migrate to new PC
• backup
• restore

If I have a major PC failure, I depend on restoring my entire system (backed up via another program) not a specific FH backup.

And so, dates are irrelevant -- all I need is backup and restore a day (or a few days later).

No, the get link button does not seem to work for me in the same way the KB chain link does. e.g. I Search for the Property Box: Facts tab and display that Help page. Then get link produces: https://www.family-historian.co.uk/help/fh7/hh_start.htm#propertyboxfactstab.html i.e. It does not display j...

Re the Help , the Get Link button works for me -- doe it not work for you, Mike?

Have you found the KnowledgeBase section on Ancestral sources (including the videos?)

Using Ancestral Sources

Done

John, see Marriage Witnesses (18014)

I always put the age as given in the source, even if it's patently inaccurate. FH will display it with a (!) in the fact list to highlight the anomaly if you have a birth date. But you can only be certain that it is an anomalous date if you are certain (and precise) about the birth date. I'm not su...

I always put the age as given in the source, even if it's patently inaccurate. FH will display it with a (!) in the fact list to highlight the anomaly if you have a birth date.

We're getting way off topic, but I have an 1858 marriage of Jane Parry in Caernarvonshire. Her father was Harry Pritchard. It took a lot of work to track down that marriage!

If I assign a standard (alternate) name to someone the narrative says 'also known as Aaron Sargent' - this statement is not true , he was never known by that nam e, it is just a way to index a standard name. If I uncheck Inc. Alternate names, all alternate names are not used. I don't want that eith...

We seem to have two possible approaches, if I'm understanding matters correctly. Assumptions: Variant surnames are shown in documents for some individuals; those variants are all to be associated with a single 'standard' surname; no individual should 'display' a name they were never known by. (Foren...

Mike, I think Linda is talking about recording an equivalent standard name for the many variant names that are found in documents and associated with individuals. And Adrian is suggesting an alternative approach -- not recording the discovered variant names for an individual but recording the 'stand...

When you go to File > Project Window, what location shows underneath the list of projects? Is it the location you expect?

It is possible that the sample project and your project are in different directories.

Mark, not tested but I've seen suggestions that if you create the ini file as an empty UTF16 file just containing a BOM, it will then accept UTF16 characters. See http://archives.miloush.net/michkap/archive/2006/09/15/754992.html . This is of course assuming that CP are using the relevant Windows A...

This makes the plugin ever-more complex with various niceties and options added, leading to an unsustainable maintenance overhead as user requests pile up. I have often thought that trying to be all things to all users makes a plugin hard to use and hard to maintain. I too will probably stick with ...

I'd also like to see the ability to zip the files without extra software.

With reference to chcp, I'd be interest to hear how people interpret this (form chcp . Programs that you start after you assign a new code page use the new code page. However, programs (except Cmd.exe) that you started before assigning the new code page will continue to use the original code page. W...

Pretty sure Quick Links is a standard part of the phpBB software; don't know if it could be customised.

There's a link on the Home page under Introduction.

Helen, did you mean to post that same SO link twice? Yes, I've seen that SO thread and several others. This is the other link I meant to share: https://stackoverflow.com/q/388490/1943174 which has more recent content and which Mark may find helpful, especially the comment about things depending on ...

Useful reading:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/571 ... ell-window

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/571 ... ell-window

Regarding point 2. a CMD batch script can contain full UTF-8 characters if you change its Code Page. Start the .bat file with the CHange Code Page command for page 65001 which is UTF-8: CHCP 65001 That works on any PC and temporarily allows the CMD application to use full UTF-8 characters during th...

If we're comparing backup regimes.... here's mine. Although I admit it won't be possible for most people, there may be ideas that others can take away. Primary data: on my PC 'hard disk'. (It's an M2 drive but serves the same purpose). Synchronised: to OneDrive using a Microsoft 365 subscription. Th...

I'm missing something...

Why not just create an empty UTF16 Ini file wherever you want to put it using
and then access it via fhGetIniFileValue and fhSetIniFileValue?

It may not be by design, Mark. The documentation of the Windows ini file API is pretty poor, as that reference I gave you suggests, so CP may not even be aware of the way it works.