• Skill Level: Advanced and Intermediate
• FH versions: V5, V6, and V7
• In Topics: Importing Importing and Exporting 

Introduction

These PluginsPlugins are small programs that allow new features to be added without upgrading Family Historian itself; some plugins are written by Calico Pie and others are written by users. have been written to adjust specific scenarios encountered by users migrating from other products. They may be used as they stand, or form the basis of a new Plugin. Some have been published in the Plugin Store.

Anyway, use File > Backup/Restore > Small Backup before running a Plugin just in case.

If the results are unsatisfactory use Edit > Undo Plugin Updates before closing ƒh to reverse all changes.

Alternatively, if you have closed ƒh, try File > Backup/Restore > Revert to Snapshot providing no other changes have been made.

Plugins

Each Plugin has a short description, but its associated Forum thread explains how it is used in much greater detail.

• Clean Up Selected Notes (download plugin from forum thread below)
  V5+ Plugin that is the Clean Up Notes Plugin but for selected Note RecordsFamily Historian version 6 and below supports two types of Notes: Local notes (associated with a single person, record, or fact); and Note Records (sometimes called Shared Notes), that can be linked to multiple records and/or facts. Version 7 introduced.
  See Forum thread Clean Up Notes for Subset March 2016.
• Copy LatLong in Name to LatLong (download plugin from forum thread below)
  V6+ Plugin to move every Lat,Long at end of PlaceAccording to GEDCOM, a Place should hold "The jurisdictional name of the place where the event took place…"   Name to associated Lat/Long field.
  See Forum thread FH TMG Direct import issues following V6.0.1 March 2016.
• Give Witnesses Their Own Facts V6+ Plugin to convert any Fact WitnessesA Witness is somebody who played an important role in an event (or rarely, attribute) but were not a Principal, e.g. they could have been a bridesmaid at a wedding, rather than one of the individuals getting married. to multiple FactsFacts are one of the key concepts at the heart of Family Historian; they are how you record the things that happened to, or described, each ancestor (Individual)..
• Migrate Census Family to Individual Events V5+ Plugin to make each CensusCensus records are national collections of population statistics. They usually record details about members of a household on a particular date, and are typically collected every ten years. (family) Event into two Individual Census EventsEvents are things that happened to an Individual and Attributes are things that described them..
  See Forum thread Using Expressions to show Census Icons on Diagrams Feb 2016.
• Move _UNCAT to Address"The address structure should be formed as it would appear on a mailing label…", according to GEDCOM; however, this is capable of a number of interpretations, and Address and Place are best considered together. (download plugin from forum thread below)
  V5+ Plugin to move any _UNCAT UDFUncategorized Data Fields sometimes referred to by users as ‘Starburst fields’ are called UDF for short. These fields hold data where Family Historian doesn’t know what kind of data is in the UDF usually created by importing a GEDCOM file. to Address for every Event & RESIdence Fact.
  See Forum thread Fact Notes and Sources from FTM Feb 2016.
• Move Note to Address (download plugin from forum thread below)
  V5+ Plugin to move any local Note to Address for every Event & RESIdence Fact.
  See Forum thread Problems Importing FTM Gedcom to FH Oct 2015.
• Move Marriage MediaWhen you add a picture, video, sound recording, document file etc into a Family Historian project, a Media record is created to represent that media item within the project; the Media record includes a link to the actual Media file. to Family (download plugin from forum thread below)
  V5+ Plugin to move all Media linked to Marriage Events to the Family Record.
  See Forum thread Family Media:Linking to Existing Fact Media March 2016.
• Splitting Lumped Sources plugin converts lumped sourcesSource: "where information was found". This could be anything from an archive in a county records office, a book, or even a relative's recorded recollection. Citing your Sources helps to show how you reached a particular conclusion about an Individual. of the type favoured by products such as Family Tree Maker and RootsMagic into individual split sources that fit much better into the ƒh architecture.  Works with both traditional generic sourcesFamily Historian 7 introduced the concept of 'Templated Sources' and renamed Version 6 (totally Gedcom compliant) sources as 'Generic Sources'.   in ƒh5+ and ƒh7 templated sourcesFamily Historian Version 7 introduced the ability to define sources using 'Source Templates' to aid precision and consistency in entering source-identifying information.  .