On the Rows tab Add a filter such as Exclude if =FactLabel(%FACT%) matches 'Marriage' i.e. Condition: Exclude if... Expression: =FactLabel(%FACT%) Operator: matches Value: Marriage If you tick the Parameter option and enter a Label such as Fact Name then you will prompted to choose the type of Fact to Exclude. Switch the Condition to Exclude unless... and only Facts that match the value will be included. Regards, Mike Tate -----Original Message----- From: family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Fiona Hall Sent: 17 January 2012 11:18 To: family-historian-users@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FHU] Advice re lack of source material I have been running the free download query for unsourced facts and attributes and would like to modify it, but can’t quite get how to do it... How do I exclude , just for example , Baptisms from this query so that the ‘unsourced’ become a little easier to deal with? Thanks Fiona

I have been running the free download query for unsourced facts and attributes and would like to modify it, but can’t quite get how to do it... How do I exclude , just for example , Baptisms from this query so that the ‘unsourced’ become a little easier to deal with? Thanks Fiona

John, It's also worth pointing out that buying a full V4 license (CD or download version) now entitles you to a free upgrade to the forthcoming V5, due to be released in February - see Family Historian <http://www.family-historian.co.uk/v5-xmas-offer> Version 5 Christmas Offer for the terms and conditions of the offer, and What's <http://www.family-historian.co.uk/features/whats-new/whats-new-in-5> new in Version5? for details of the new release. John _____ avast! Antivirus <http://www.avast.com> : Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 16/01/2012 Tested on: 16/01/2012 17:53:54 avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2012 AVAST Software. --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 120116-0, 16/01/2012 Tested on: 16/01/2012 17:54:00 avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2012 AVAST Software. http://www.avast.com

Brilliant Jane - that reduces immediately to 189, a manageable  number to start working on! Many thanks   Regards, Andrea ________________________________ From: Jane Taubman <janetaubman@gmail.com> To: Andrea Kent <andrea.kent@btopenworld.com>; family-historian-users@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, 16 January 2012, 17:32 Subject: Re: [FHU] Advice re lack of source material On 16 January 2012 16:56, Andrea Kent <andrea.kent@btopenworld.com> wrote: >  What I would like to do, but haven't managed to find how, is to provide an additional filter for the individual fact owners, to give me all of the ones who are direct ancestors of the root (or of a given person if root isn't possible). I realise I can sort by fact owner but with that number picking out direct ancestors still isn't very easy. Are there any functions etc which can work on fact owner in this way? This should work Exclude Unless =IsAncestorOf(FactOwner(%FACT%,1,MALES_FIRST),FileRoot()) -- Jane. Jane Taubman | www.rjt.org.uk | www.taubman.org.uk |www.fhug.org.uk

On 16 January 2012 16:56, Andrea Kent <andrea.kent@btopenworld.com> wrote: > What I would like to do, but haven't managed to find how, is to provide an additional filter for the individual fact owners, to give me all of the ones who are direct ancestors of the root (or of a given person if root isn't possible). I realise I can sort by fact owner but with that number picking out direct ancestors still isn't very easy. Are there any functions etc which can work on fact owner in this way? This should work Exclude Unless =IsAncestorOf(FactOwner(%FACT%,1,MALES_FIRST),FileRoot()) -- Jane. Jane Taubman | www.rjt.org.uk | www.taubman.org.uk |www.fhug.org.uk

I have been following this with interest, and have found to my horror that I have over 3000 unsourced facts, of which around 10% are family-related but the majority individual. What I would like to do, but haven't managed to find how, is to provide an additional filter for the individual fact owners, to give me all of the ones who are direct ancestors of the root (or of a given person if root isn't possible). I realise I can sort by fact owner but with that number picking out direct ancestors still isn't very easy. Are there any functions etc which can work on fact owner in this way? Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions.   Regards, Andrea ________________________________ From: "Thomasatelmers@aol.com" <Thomasatelmers@aol.com> To: family-historian-users@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, 16 January 2012, 9:08 Subject: [FHU] Advice re lack of source material Further to recent posts on this topic I tried it. First of course you have  to add %FACT.SOUR[1]>% to the columns of the basic query - when I did this it  reduced my total facts from 11,156 to 4,483 - still rather a lot of facts  without sources. But what I do when for example I have a FreeBMD entry is to  write a note on the fact (rather than a source entry) on the premise that it  isn't a cast iron source record. So what I ten did was to add the fact note to  the columns of the custom query (%FACT.NOTE2[1]%) and then a further filter of  "Exclude unless %FACT.NOTE2[1]% is null". This brought my results down to 1,702.  Rather horrifying number of facts without any explanation and it gives me  something to work on. Thanks for the idea. Dick Thomas ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks, Mike, - useful information. Kind regards, John L ----- Original Message ----- From: "Beryl & Mike Tate" <post@tatewise.co.uk> To: <family-historian-users@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 2:43 PM Subject: Re: [FHU] Advice re lack of source material John, There is indeed much advice in the FHUG Knowledge Base on V4 Projects and their advantages. In fact some features ~ FH Charts, and Family Tree CD/Websites ~ are only supported in projects. One thing I would emphasise is the benefit of migrating your Multimedia folder structure into the project Media folder. Your structure can remain the same; it simply sits under the Media folder as its root folder. The major benefit is that all the FH Multimedia file links are relative to this Media folder instead of a disk drive letter. This allows the whole project to be moved from drive to drive, or PC to PC, and the file links are not broken!!! Many users have come to learn the advantage of this when synchronising two PC, or installing on a new PC. Hope that helps. Regards, Mike Tate

John, There is indeed much advice in the FHUG Knowledge Base on V4 Projects and their advantages. In fact some features ~ FH Charts, and Family Tree CD/Websites ~ are only supported in projects. One thing I would emphasise is the benefit of migrating your Multimedia folder structure into the project Media folder. Your structure can remain the same; it simply sits under the Media folder as its root folder. The major benefit is that all the FH Multimedia file links are relative to this Media folder instead of a disk drive letter. This allows the whole project to be moved from drive to drive, or PC to PC, and the file links are not broken!!! Many users have come to learn the advantage of this when synchronising two PC, or installing on a new PC. Hope that helps. Regards, Mike Tate -----Original Message----- From: family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of John Lockley Sent: 16 January 2012 14:17 To: abruce@madasafish.com; john.wjames@which.net; family-historian-users@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FHU] Advice re lack of source material John and Adrian, Thank you both for the advice - it's good news that I won't be in for a major upheaval. Kind regards, John L ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adrian Bruce" <abruce@madasafish.com> To: <family-historian-users@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 11:22 AM Subject: Re: [FHU] Advice re lack of source material <<snipped>> I liked the look of V4 until I heard all the wails about "can't find data" due to this new "project" approach. I had set up my own highly ordered data structure and didn't want to change it. <<snipped>> At risk of reopening long running debates, I also had my own highly ordered data structure and found it easy to move it into the structure of projects. I even managed to get all the media moved into the same structure, although in that case it was more difficult simply because my media was (were?) all over the place. The key is to read the advice on the FHUG site (I think it's there!) about what projects do where and think beforehand. Even create a mini-project experiment just to make sure you understand things. And then think about it again! Adrian B ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

John and Adrian, Thank you both for the advice - it's good news that I won't be in for a major upheaval. Kind regards, John L ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adrian Bruce" <abruce@madasafish.com> To: <family-historian-users@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 11:22 AM Subject: Re: [FHU] Advice re lack of source material <<snipped>> I liked the look of V4 until I heard all the wails about "can't find data" due to this new "project" approach. I had set up my own highly ordered data structure and didn't want to change it. <<snipped>> At risk of reopening long running debates, I also had my own highly ordered data structure and found it easy to move it into the structure of projects. I even managed to get all the media moved into the same structure, although in that case it was more difficult simply because my media was (were?) all over the place. The key is to read the advice on the FHUG site (I think it's there!) about what projects do where and think beforehand. Even create a mini-project experiment just to make sure you understand things. And then think about it again! Adrian B ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi John, I agree with Adrian - I would recommend you do move to V4 and Projects. I, too, had my own well ordered data structure, but I found these moved across to a Project intact and without a hitch. Just take it carefully; read all the instructions and help. Take a copy of your existing data structure and do a trial conversion on that first. Strongly recommend purchasing a full installation version for V4, rather than yet another upgrade. I bought an upgrade, but the had to go back to buying a full version when I wanted to install V4 on a second machine (as the licence allows) only to find I'd lost my installation key for V3!! Calico did allow me do do so by paying the difference, rather than full price again. If you're not already using it, I also thoroughly recommend Ancestral Sources, the replacement for Gedcom Census. And a pre-emptive Happy Birthday! John _____ From: John Lockley [mailto:john.lockley@btinternet.com] Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 10:19 AM To: john.wjames@which.net Cc: family-historian-users@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FHU] Advice re lack of source material Thanks, John. I am indeed still on V3. As far as my own personal needs are concerned, I have always been a bit conservative - "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" to coin a phrase. I liked the look of V4 until I heard all the wails about "can't find data" due to this new "project" approach. I had set up my own highly ordered data structure and didn't want to change it. Having said that, I will eventually have to bite the bullet. I have a birthday coming up, so maybe I should have a new, up to date installation disc instead of an old one and a string of updates! Thanks also to Beryl & Mike for confirming the answer. John L ----- Original Message ----- From: John <mailto:john.wjames@which.net> James To: 'John Lockley' <mailto:john.lockley@btinternet.com> ; family-historian-users@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 7:13 PM Subject: RE: [FHU] Advice re lack of source material Sorry, John, I don't know; that's not an error I've seen. Possibly you are on V3 (I'm guessing wildly)? Perhaps Mike T, Jane or Simon can enlighten? John _____ avast! <http://www.avast.com> Antivirus: Inbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 16/01/2012 Tested on: 16/01/2012 11:30:25 avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2012 AVAST Software. _____ avast! Antivirus <http://www.avast.com> : Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 16/01/2012 Tested on: 16/01/2012 11:39:44 avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2012 AVAST Software.

<<snipped>> I liked the look of V4 until I heard all the wails about "can't find data" due to this new "project" approach. I had set up my own highly ordered data structure and didn't want to change it. <<snipped>> At risk of reopening long running debates, I also had my own highly ordered data structure and found it easy to move it into the structure of projects. I even managed to get all the media moved into the same structure, although in that case it was more difficult simply because my media was (were?) all over the place. The key is to read the advice on the FHUG site (I think it's there!) about what projects do where and think beforehand. Even create a mini-project experiment just to make sure you understand things. And then think about it again! Adrian B

Re: [FHU] Advice re lack of source materialThanks, John. I am indeed still on V3. As far as my own personal needs are concerned, I have always been a bit conservative - "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" to coin a phrase. I liked the look of V4 until I heard all the wails about "can't find data" due to this new "project" approach. I had set up my own highly ordered data structure and didn't want to change it. Having said that, I will eventually have to bite the bullet. I have a birthday coming up, so maybe I should have a new, up to date installation disc instead of an old one and a string of updates! Thanks also to Beryl & Mike for confirming the answer. John L ----- Original Message ----- From: John James To: 'John Lockley' ; family-historian-users@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 7:13 PM Subject: RE: [FHU] Advice re lack of source material Sorry, John, I don't know; that's not an error I've seen. Possibly you are on V3 (I'm guessing wildly)? Perhaps Mike T, Jane or Simon can enlighten? John

On 16 January 2012 09:08, <Thomasatelmers@aol.com> wrote: > But what I do when for example I have a FreeBMD entry is > to  write a note on the fact (rather than a source entry) Personally I do source GRO items, but use a GRO Source, that way it's very easy to find all the facts, I might want to consider buying certificates for. -- Jane. Jane Taubman | www.rjt.org.uk | www.taubman.org.uk |www.fhug.org.uk

Further to recent posts on this topic I tried it. First of course you have to add %FACT.SOUR[1]>% to the columns of the basic query - when I did this it reduced my total facts from 11,156 to 4,483 - still rather a lot of facts without sources. But what I do when for example I have a FreeBMD entry is to write a note on the fact (rather than a source entry) on the premise that it isn't a cast iron source record. So what I ten did was to add the fact note to the columns of the custom query (%FACT.NOTE2[1]%) and then a further filter of "Exclude unless %FACT.NOTE2[1]% is null". This brought my results down to 1,702. Rather horrifying number of facts without any explanation and it gives me something to work on. Thanks for the idea. Dick Thomas

That is the error message you get with FH V3 that does not support Fact Type Queries. You have to delete the Query using View > Custom Queries > Delete Custom Query Regards, Mike Tate -----Original Message----- From: family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of John James Sent: 15 January 2012 19:13 To: 'John Lockley'; family-historian-users@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FHU] Advice re lack of source material Sorry, John, I don't know; that's not an error I've seen. Possibly you are on V3 (I'm guessing wildly)? Perhaps Mike T, Jane or Simon can enlighten? John _____ From: John Lockley [mailto:john.lockley@btinternet.com] Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 4:45 PM To: john.wjames@which.net; family-historian-users@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FHU] Advice re lack of source material Hi John, This sounded interesting, so I installed it as a custom query. When I tried to use it I got "Invalid Data in Query - Cannot Load" Unless I'm missing a trick, "cannot load" means "cannot analyse error, correct, edit, or anything else". Do you know how to "get at" it ? John L ----- Original Message ----- From: "John James" <john.wjames@which.net> To: <family-historian-users@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 4:07 PM Subject: Re: [FHU] Advice re lack of source material How about the 'Unsourced Facts' query on FHUG? http://www.fhug.org.uk/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=downloadinfo <http://www.fhug.org.uk/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=downloadinfo <http://www.fhug.org.uk/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=downloadinfo&cat=queries&id=110> &cat=queries&id=110> &cat=queries&id=110 John _____ _____ avast! <http://www.avast.com> Antivirus: Inbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 15/01/2012 Tested on: 15/01/2012 16:46:28 avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2012 AVAST Software. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Further to recent posts on running Family Historian on an Apple Mac: has anyone successfully run it using the Wine/CrossOver emulator? I can load and run FH 3.0 and the update 3.1.2, but when I try to load my FH 4.0 update disk it freezes after I put in my Registration Key. I tried the download trial version but that came up with missing MFC42.dll file when I launched it. I'm successfully running my spare licenced copy of Office 2007 for Windows (and Irfan View) by this method, which I rather like because neither a reboot nor a copy of Windows OS are needed to run Windows Programs. Any help gratefully received. TIA Martin

I did exactly the same as Yasmin, created a 1800-name tree without sources. In my case I started again with a parallel tree, found one wrong branch with 150 names on it, found another 300 names I was unable to justify. Ancestral Sources is excellent. Dennis Hawkins -----Original Message----- From: Yasmin Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 12:01 PM To: family-historian-users@rootsweb.com Subject: [FHU] Advice re lack of source material Morning All I have a dilemma, when I started researching my family history I was a bit silly and got carried away finding family etc but didn't think about recording sources. On looking at my files I have information in my tree but I haven't recorded the sources for a lot of it. Is there any way of running a query that would show me all the people and information put in without sources or do I have no option but to re-input all my information in a separate file missing out the information without sources until I go back over and recheck it. I obviously want to make sure that if anyone looks at my research they will know where and how I found it, whilst I don't mind inputting it all again I would prefer not to. Thanks Yasmin ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Sorry, John, I don't know; that's not an error I've seen. Possibly you are on V3 (I'm guessing wildly)? Perhaps Mike T, Jane or Simon can enlighten? John _____ From: John Lockley [mailto:john.lockley@btinternet.com] Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 4:45 PM To: john.wjames@which.net; family-historian-users@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FHU] Advice re lack of source material Hi John, This sounded interesting, so I installed it as a custom query. When I tried to use it I got "Invalid Data in Query - Cannot Load" Unless I'm missing a trick, "cannot load" means "cannot analyse error, correct, edit, or anything else". Do you know how to "get at" it ? John L ----- Original Message ----- From: "John James" <john.wjames@which.net> To: <family-historian-users@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 4:07 PM Subject: Re: [FHU] Advice re lack of source material How about the 'Unsourced Facts' query on FHUG? http://www.fhug.org.uk/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=downloadinfo <http://www.fhug.org.uk/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=downloadinfo <http://www.fhug.org.uk/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=downloadinfo&cat=queries&id=110> &cat=queries&id=110> &cat=queries&id=110 John _____ _____ avast! <http://www.avast.com> Antivirus: Inbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 15/01/2012 Tested on: 15/01/2012 16:46:28 avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2012 AVAST Software.

Thanks to everyone for their help. Mike's suggestion worked as did the Unsourced Fact Query. Just got to go through the information it revealed and try to sort out where I got the information from. Thanks again Yasmin

Hi John, This sounded interesting, so I installed it as a custom query. When I tried to use it I got "Invalid Data in Query - Cannot Load" Unless I'm missing a trick, "cannot load" means "cannot analyse error, correct, edit, or anything else". Do you know how to "get at" it ? John L ----- Original Message ----- From: "John James" <john.wjames@which.net> To: <family-historian-users@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 4:07 PM Subject: Re: [FHU] Advice re lack of source material How about the 'Unsourced Facts' query on FHUG? http://www.fhug.org.uk/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=downloadinfo <http://www.fhug.org.uk/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=downloadinfo&cat=queries&id=110> &cat=queries&id=110 John _____