Earl: I've encountered a similar error message this week. I have posted about it on the FHUG forum see http://www.fhug.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=11798 In my case I was sending small (about 25 individuals) gedcoms by way of email attachments, which has worked just fine before. We eventually realised that this was the source of the problem since sending the gedcoms over dropbox or OneDrive worked ok. You don't say whether email was involve in your file so this may be of no help to you but I thought I would mention it just in case. Regards, Derek On 15 November 2014 13:31, EarlJDavis via < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all. Looking for some help. > > I have been using Family Historian since about 2009 all on the same laptop. > I have version 4.0.2. I have never had a problem until today. > > I use Family Historian almost every day for at least 25 hours a week. I > last used it yesterday without any problems. > > My file is a little over 52,000 persons and 2,000+ pictures. > > Today the file will not load properly. The message I am getting is; > > 'File not terminated correctly (no trailer > record found' > > Googling this problem does not make me feel encouraged that I can fix this > and I feel stressed and ill at the potential of so much work and data being > lost. > > The issue am having does sound a little different than others have > described however. > > Although the message 'File not terminated correctly (no trailer record > found' appears the file does still load but only 39,528 people load. > Everyone > after record number 40,501 has gone from the index screen. So I am missing > the last 12,000 or so records. All sources and notes do not show. The file > says there are NO multi media records although they are all still present > if > you navigate to the relevant folder through windows. > > None of the records are linked together. The most recent edits including > yesterdays edits all still show up providing they are on records 1 to > 40,501. > > Now I do have a back up but it's from 25th July so I am terrified I have > lost over 400-500 hours work assuming the back up even works! > > When I open another small file that works ok so it does not appear to be > the program installation at issue. > > Any ideas or am I doomed? > > Earl. > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi Jack, I guess you are looking in the Records Window on the Individuals tab. I bet the first column header says "Individual..." which indicates it is too narrow. Hover your mouse on the vertical bar between "Individual..." and "Record Id" and the cursor will change to two vertical bars with left and right arrows. Now left-click and drag to the right to widen the column and hey presto all is revealed. Regards, Mike Tate -----Original Message----- Subject: [FHU] (no subject) I just converted a family file to a gedcom. When I wish to view the individuals list, it only shows the first 2 letters of the name. How do I correct that to show the entire surname, or in the case of no surname, the entire first name ? Thanks Jack

I just converted a family file to a gedcom. When I wish to view the individuals list, it only shows the first 2 letters of the name. How do I correct that to show the entire surname, or in the case of no surname, the entire first name ? Thanks Jack

Thank you Mike. I did have some blank lines after the square brackets and now that I have removed them everything works fine. Gillian -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Beryl & Mike Tate via Sent: Tuesday, 18 November 2014 8:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FHU] Extra headings in reports Gillian, The section headings are automatically omitted if there is absolutely nothing to display in that section. So take care that there are no blank lines or spaces or tabs before or after the [[square brackets]] because these will trigger the heading even though there are no visible characters. Regards, Mike Tate -----Original Message----- Subject: Re: [FHU] Extra headings in reports The report is the Individual Summary Report. The notes are not attached to facts they are mainly attached to the individual though some are shared notes. The report has sections for 'Events and Attributes', 'Marriage and children' and 'Individual Notes'. Gillian Subject: Re: [FHU] Extra headings in reports On 17 November 2014 02:04, gw3190 via <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: This has had the desired effect except that the report still shows headings for the hidden notes. Notes do not normally have headings, please could you explain what report you are using and how you are attaching the notes are they attached to Facts or free standing record level notes. Jane. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Gillian, The section headings are automatically omitted if there is absolutely nothing to display in that section. So take care that there are no blank lines or spaces or tabs before or after the [[square brackets]] because these will trigger the heading even though there are no visible characters. Regards, Mike Tate -----Original Message----- Subject: Re: [FHU] Extra headings in reports The report is the Individual Summary Report. The notes are not attached to facts they are mainly attached to the individual though some are shared notes. The report has sections for 'Events and Attributes', 'Marriage and children' and 'Individual Notes'. Gillian Subject: Re: [FHU] Extra headings in reports On 17 November 2014 02:04, gw3190 via <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: This has had the desired effect except that the report still shows headings for the hidden notes. Notes do not normally have headings, please could you explain what report you are using and how you are attaching the notes are they attached to Facts or free standing record level notes. Jane.

The report is the Individual Summary Report. The notes are not attached to facts they are mainly attached to the individual though some are shared notes. The report has sections for 'Events and Attributes', 'Marriage and children' and 'Individual Notes'. Gillian From: Jane Taubman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, 17 November 2014 6:13 PM To: gw3190; family-historian-users Subject: Re: [FHU] Extra headings in reports On 17 November 2014 02:04, gw3190 via <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: This has had the desired effect except that the report still shows headings for the hidden notes. Notes do not normally have headings, please could you explain what report you are using and how you are attaching the notes are they attached to Facts or free standing record level notes. -- Jane. Jane Taubman | www.rjt.org.uk <http://www.rjt.org.uk> | www.taubman.org <http://www.taubman.org> .uk |www.fhug.org.uk <http://www.fhug.org.uk>

Could someone please help me. I am receiving messages twice but if I unsubscribe I don't receive any messages - HELP Cheers from Valerie in sunny Sydney -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard HE Honey via Sent: Monday, 17 November 2014 5:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [FHU] Creating a Book Hi, My son has been Married & Divorced twice, to the same woman Spouse 1. He has married & is now separated to Spouse 2. He is now living with a (divorced) partner. This lady is shown as ‘Unmarried Couple’ to my son and no relation to the ‘source person’ which is me (my son’s father) My problem is that when I create a book the three woman are shown as Spouse 1 – Spouse 2 – & the unmarried woman as Spouse 3. This not correct as she has never been married to my son. How do I show the correct, ‘unmarried couple’ detail in the Book format? ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

Hello listers I use notes for many things and some individual records have 4 or 5 notes attached. I wish to generate an individual summary report that shows only my biographical notes and have enclosed all other notes in square brackets. This has had the desired effect except that the report still shows headings for the hidden notes. Is there some way to fix this without copying the report into a word processor and manually removing the extra headings? I am using Family Historian version 5.0.11 Gillian

Unfortunately, it is the way Rootsweb is currently distributing mailings. They include both your personal E-mail address and the FHU Rootsweb address. So when users "Reply" a message gets sent to both addresses and you get them both. The only advice is to suggest that when users Reply they delete the personal E-mail address from the To... line. Regards, Mike Tate -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Valerie Barbara Garton via Sent: 17 November 2014 12:09 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FHU] Creating a Book Could someone please help me. I am receiving messages twice but if I unsubscribe I don't receive any messages - HELP Cheers from Valerie in sunny Sydney -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard HE Honey via Sent: Monday, 17 November 2014 5:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [FHU] Creating a Book Hi, My son has been Married & Divorced twice, to the same woman Spouse 1. He has married & is now separated to Spouse 2. He is now living with a (divorced) partner. This lady is shown as ‘Unmarried Couple’ to my son and no relation to the ‘source person’ which is me (my son’s father) My problem is that when I create a book the three woman are shown as Spouse 1 – Spouse 2 – & the unmarried woman as Spouse 3. This not correct as she has never been married to my son. How do I show the correct, ‘unmarried couple’ detail in the Book format? ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Richard, What matters is which type of Report Item you have chosen for your Book. It might be possible to adjust its Options to improve the wording. However, FH does tend to use the word Spouse in a generic sense to mean even unmarried partners. If all else fails, you can use Save Book As > Word-Processor Document (RTF) and then use a word-processor such as MS Word to edit the wording. Regards, Mike Tate -----Original Message----- Subject: [FHU] Creating a Book Hi, My son has been Married & Divorced twice, to the same woman Spouse 1. He has married & is now separated to Spouse 2. He is now living with a (divorced) partner. This lady is shown as ‘Unmarried Couple’ to my son and no relation to the ‘source person’ which is me (my son’s father) My problem is that when I create a book the three woman are shown as Spouse 1 – Spouse 2 – & the unmarried woman as Spouse 3. This not correct as she has never been married to my son. How do I show the correct, ‘unmarried couple’ detail in the Book format?

If you are running Windows 7 then it may have a relatively recent backup copy. Make sure you have taken a COPY of faulty GEDCOM file using Windows Explorer. The right-click on the ORIGINAL faulty GEDCOM file and select "Restore previous versions". It may take a while to list any backup/restore point versions with dates, but you can then select and restore the latest before the problem arose. FYI: PC/Disk Drive/Software can misbehave or fail at any time, so it is important to keep regular backups of anything of value. See http://www.fhug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=glossary:backup_and_recovery for detailed advice. Regards, Mike Tate -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jane Taubman via Sent: 16 November 2014 09:49 To: EarlJDavis; family-historian-users Subject: Re: [FHU] Problem loading file. On 15 November 2014 13:31, EarlJDavis via < [email protected]> wrote: > None of the records are linked together. The most recent edits > including yesterdays edits all still show up providing they are on > records 1 to 40,501. > It does sound like the PC has truncated the file. Do you not make the backups on exit? If you do you should be able to restore the gedcom from that one. It might also be worth looking in the Project Data folder are there any additional files in there? Family Historian saves and then renames files so it's just possible there is another copy of your data in the folder with a different name. Also if you use dropbox or another automatic backup system you should be able to restore from that. -- Jane. Jane Taubman | www.rjt.org.uk | www.taubman.org.uk |www.fhug.org.uk ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Mike. Thanks for giving me a little bit of hope and for taking the time to help. I am on Vista Service pack 2. Is it possible to do anything similar with that? I had already renamed the folder from Family Historian projects to error familyhistorian projects but the Gedcom file within has not been renamed. I don't know if that would effect the system being able to restore an older version or not? Earl. In a message dated 17/11/2014 12:14:03 GMT Standard Time, [email protected] writes: If you are running Windows 7 then it may have a relatively recent backup copy. Make sure you have taken a COPY of faulty GEDCOM file using Windows Explorer. The right-click on the ORIGINAL faulty GEDCOM file and select "Restore previous versions". It may take a while to list any backup/restore point versions with dates, but you can then select and restore the latest before the problem arose. FYI: PC/Disk Drive/Software can misbehave or fail at any time, so it is important to keep regular backups of anything of value. See http://www.fhug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=glossary:backup_and_recovery for detailed advice. Regards, Mike Tate

On 17 November 2014 02:04, gw3190 via <[email protected]> wrote: > This has had the desired effect except that the report still shows headings > for the hidden notes. > Notes do not normally have headings, please could you explain what report you are using and how you are attaching the notes are they attached to Facts or free standing record level notes. -- Jane. Jane Taubman | www.rjt.org.uk | www.taubman.org.uk |www.fhug.org.uk

Hi, My son has been Married & Divorced twice, to the same woman Spouse 1. He has married & is now separated to Spouse 2. He is now living with a (divorced) partner. This lady is shown as ‘Unmarried Couple’ to my son and no relation to the ‘source person’ which is me (my son’s father) My problem is that when I create a book the three woman are shown as Spouse 1 – Spouse 2 – & the unmarried woman as Spouse 3. This not correct as she has never been married to my son. How do I show the correct, ‘unmarried couple’ detail in the Book format?

Earl, the first thing to do is to make multiple copies of your GEDCOM file using Windows. Don't experiment with your original, play with a copy. Do you use Ancestral Sources? If yes, you may be in luck because Ancestral Sources by default creates backups of your GEDCOM. The Ancestral Sources help says... "Backup Folder: When changes are saved to the family history GEDCOM file a backup copy is saved to the folder specified here. By default only the most recent 10 backups are retained. This number can be changed. If set to 0 then all backups are retained." For me the location of that backup folder is C:/Users/xxxxx/My Documents/Ancestral Sources/Backups. Be careful not to overwrite a good backup GEDCOM with a corrupted one because only the last ten are saved by default. If you have such a folder, make copies of the entire folder to different locations, then experiment with one of the copies. Going forwards after you have hopefully resolved this problem, I recommend that you create a free Dropbox account, store your Family Historian data within the Dropbox folder, and set Family Historian to automatically save every minute. That way every minute as you work a copy of your GEDCOM file etc. is saved on the Dropbox servers. Historical copies are by default kept for 30 days so you can revert to an older version if you encounter a problem. Trevor Rix

On 15 November 2014 13:31, EarlJDavis via < [email protected]> wrote: > None of the records are linked together. The most recent edits including > yesterdays edits all still show up providing they are on records 1 to > 40,501. > It does sound like the PC has truncated the file. Do you not make the backups on exit? If you do you should be able to restore the gedcom from that one. It might also be worth looking in the Project Data folder are there any additional files in there? Family Historian saves and then renames files so it's just possible there is another copy of your data in the folder with a different name. Also if you use dropbox or another automatic backup system you should be able to restore from that. -- Jane. Jane Taubman | www.rjt.org.uk | www.taubman.org.uk |www.fhug.org.uk

Hi Earl Have you tried opening the file in something like Notepad++ and reviewing it? If it looks OK, select all, copy and paste into a new file and then try and open that. Cheers Roger ________________________________ Roger Mitchell [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://mfo.me.uk Saturday, 15.11.2014 16:12:49 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of EarlJDavis via Sent: 15 November 2014 13:32 To: [email protected] Subject: [FHU] Problem loading file. Hi all. Looking for some help. I have been using Family Historian since about 2009 all on the same laptop. I have version 4.0.2. I have never had a problem until today. I use Family Historian almost every day for at least 25 hours a week. I last used it yesterday without any problems. My file is a little over 52,000 persons and 2,000+ pictures. Today the file will not load properly. The message I am getting is; 'File not terminated correctly (no trailer record found' Googling this problem does not make me feel encouraged that I can fix this and I feel stressed and ill at the potential of so much work and data being lost. The issue am having does sound a little different than others have described however. Although the message 'File not terminated correctly (no trailer record found' appears the file does still load but only 39,528 people load. Everyone after record number 40,501 has gone from the index screen. So I am missing the last 12,000 or so records. All sources and notes do not show. The file says there are NO multi media records although they are all still present if you navigate to the relevant folder through windows. None of the records are linked together. The most recent edits including yesterdays edits all still show up providing they are on records 1 to 40,501. Now I do have a back up but it's from 25th July so I am terrified I have lost over 400-500 hours work assuming the back up even works! When I open another small file that works ok so it does not appear to be the program installation at issue. Any ideas or am I doomed? Earl. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Have you tried re booting your laptop? Could it be due to the size of your hard drive? I have over 65,000 on my tree and never had that message. I wonder if by upgrading to the latest version will help -----Original Message----- From: "EarlJDavis via" <[email protected]> Sent: ‎15/‎11/‎2014 13:31 To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: [FHU] Problem loading file. Hi all. Looking for some help. I have been using Family Historian since about 2009 all on the same laptop. I have version 4.0.2. I have never had a problem until today. I use Family Historian almost every day for at least 25 hours a week. I last used it yesterday without any problems. My file is a little over 52,000 persons and 2,000+ pictures. Today the file will not load properly. The message I am getting is; 'File not terminated correctly (no trailer record found' Googling this problem does not make me feel encouraged that I can fix this and I feel stressed and ill at the potential of so much work and data being lost. The issue am having does sound a little different than others have described however. Although the message 'File not terminated correctly (no trailer record found' appears the file does still load but only 39,528 people load. Everyone after record number 40,501 has gone from the index screen. So I am missing the last 12,000 or so records. All sources and notes do not show. The file says there are NO multi media records although they are all still present if you navigate to the relevant folder through windows. None of the records are linked together. The most recent edits including yesterdays edits all still show up providing they are on records 1 to 40,501. Now I do have a back up but it's from 25th July so I am terrified I have lost over 400-500 hours work assuming the back up even works! When I open another small file that works ok so it does not appear to be the program installation at issue. Any ideas or am I doomed? Earl. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks Mike for your advice. I tried it and it worked perfectly - just what I wanted. I think the problem must be to do with W8 which doesn't seem to like many programs, it changes my IE for Bing without my permission, because I certainly didn't change any FH settings. Thanks again for your help Alan Regards, Mike Tate -----Original Message----- Subject: [FHU] Records I want to make a list of certain people in my database and get a Text/PDF copy of all info. in their records including notes. Is this possible> Alan ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi all. Looking for some help. I have been using Family Historian since about 2009 all on the same laptop. I have version 4.0.2. I have never had a problem until today. I use Family Historian almost every day for at least 25 hours a week. I last used it yesterday without any problems. My file is a little over 52,000 persons and 2,000+ pictures. Today the file will not load properly. The message I am getting is; 'File not terminated correctly (no trailer record found' Googling this problem does not make me feel encouraged that I can fix this and I feel stressed and ill at the potential of so much work and data being lost. The issue am having does sound a little different than others have described however. Although the message 'File not terminated correctly (no trailer record found' appears the file does still load but only 39,528 people load. Everyone after record number 40,501 has gone from the index screen. So I am missing the last 12,000 or so records. All sources and notes do not show. The file says there are NO multi media records although they are all still present if you navigate to the relevant folder through windows. None of the records are linked together. The most recent edits including yesterdays edits all still show up providing they are on records 1 to 40,501. Now I do have a back up but it's from 25th July so I am terrified I have lost over 400-500 hours work assuming the back up even works! When I open another small file that works ok so it does not appear to be the program installation at issue. Any ideas or am I doomed? Earl.