Of course it is the West (East or North) Riding of Yorkshire but for address purposes on FH West, East or North simplifies things. Writing letters in those far off days people simply wrote

Victor Sheffield has never been in West Yorkshire. It was in the West Riding of Yorkshire until reorganisation. Yorkshire is challenging from a geographic standpoint. Formerly three ridings and an

When I enter a place name in England I always give the place name it's full name. When it copmes to county names I always stick to the ancien boundary names. What we see today are known

Mike, I was thinking that if we use place field like Address, City, County, State, Country that we re dependent on properly placed commas for missing data. I know you can't speak for FH but it would

Yes, the FHUG Knowledge Base ‘Working with Places and Addresses’ explains similar options: https://fhug.org.uk/kb/kb-article/working-with-places-and-addresses-for-new-users/ Family Historian

If I read the GECOM 5.5.1 and the new 7.0.0 it seems that the place should contain a location like city, county, state, country. The address field should contain the entire address, multi line address

Miriam, this and related problems were discussed 10 days ago in the FHUG Forums under ‘Fact definitions & unwanted carriage returns’. See

FH (especially with help of the numerous plugins) offers indeed a multitude of ways to implement users ideas, wishes etc. For me this means that I've to ask myself why would I want what?". My answers

You were perfectly clear about what you had done. Those modifications only affect one specific fact at a time. As Lorna said and as the ‘Report Fact Sentence Templates’ advice I referred to

Can you guarantee that there's always a date? If so, maybe you could replace {date} {place} {age} by This was {date} {place} {age} This will result in 2 sentences (in English) for the one

Miriam Have you tried changing the position of the date in the sentence to see if it makes a difference to the output It would also help if you copied the actual template rather than quote an

I have a feeling that v7 altered the production of the narrative sentences slightly, because I had an issue with the number of embedded spaces that CP Support said was because I was trying to control

Hello everyone Since the upgrade to V7, I’m now preparing a report for my niece and some of the sentences are not coming out the same as previous reports. I cannot work it out, and as it is

Lorna, I was hoping for an automated way but I guess the old cut and paste will work.

Mike, I was probably unclear as to what I have done. I created a test project and modified the specific sentences and roles for one individual. The standard birth fact is untouched and everything I

Full details are in the FHUG KB Narrative Report Fact Sentence Templates: https://fhug.org.uk/kb/kb-article/narrative-report-fact-sentence-templates/ After setting the global default sentences

You need to use Tools>Fact Types, then select the fact and click Edit.  You can change the main sentence template there. Then click on the Roles button to select each role in turn to edit it.

I have been working on modifying sentences to read better (to me anyway). I have changed the basic sentence for an individual by editing a fact and then in the sentence box changed the sentence. I

To rearrange your Place &/or Address parts there is the cunningly named plugin ‘Rearrange Address and Place Parts’. That can adjust the number of comma-separated parts, move Address parts into

Joop van Beek, I've been looking into how I want to store address information and it appears that if I include the address as part of place I will get an entry in places for every address, OK but very