Re: Professional Genealogy Software

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:54:36 -0000, "Trevor Rix"
<trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Discussing Family Historian v4, Hugh wrote :

I absolutely refuse to respond to use of my first name

Use the option to specify "Given Name Used" in the Names/Titles
dialogue box. In your case you would specify "Hugh". See page 72 of
the manual. Also see page 102.

This appears to be the reason I might not purchase the program. I read
the manual pages (not really necessary after your instruction) and it
worked. BUT, it only worked for one individual.

I don't have a simple answer for this one Hugh. One option would be to
open your FH4 GEDCOM file in Notepad and add the "prefered name" tag
line, for example

1 NAME Robert Alfred /ALLEN/
2 _USED Alfred

That may be quicker than visiting each person in the program itself. Yes
it would take time but would be a one off exercise. If I were doing it I
would use my left side button on my 5 button mouse to paste "2 _USED " in
the appropriate places, followed by typing the preferred name. I hope
that makes sense :).

Doesn't your current program already create a "2 _USED" tag?

Trevor Rix


Both programs create a GED with NICK, not USED, tag.

One has a Report Option to "Use Quoted Names", the other apparently
uses the NICK tag.

Without that my father and I, for one example. would both be known as
James and neither of us was called James.

Terminology is the problem. FH needs an import option to change
nomenclature to FH - or some program needs to conform to gedcom
standard nomenclature, whatever that is.

I appreciate your continued efforts to straighten me out - I'm bent
pretty bad.

Hugh
.

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