| How Related | Opens the dialog box which shows you up to 9 different ways that two people are related. If they are not directly related to one another, it will show you how they are indirectly related through a third party, if they are. |
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| External File Links | Open the Work with External File Links dialog to manage links from Media records to their associated media files (e.g. picture file); and check for, and fix, any 'broken' links. |
| Named Lists and Flags | Open the dialog to perform various tasks relating to Named Lists and Record Flags. |
| Work with Data ► |
This submenu allows you to open a dialog to view and edit values for the following data types that have been used in the file:
If you wish to, you can use the dialog box to update these values throughout your file. For example, suppose you discover that you have spelled a given occupation inconsistently in different contexts. Without having to locate the actual records (though you can do that too if you wish) you can change values, and even merge multiple different values together. The final option on this menu is
This displays a list of 'sentence overrides' in the Results Window. 'Sentence overrides' are modifications to the automatically-generated narrative sentence, displayed in the Sentence field of the Facts tab of the Property Box, or in the Witnesses Window. |
| Record Identifiers | Open the dialog. This dialog allows you to renumber record identifiers (although this is not recommended) and to perform various other tasks relating to record identifiers. |
| Manage Autotext | Open the Manage Autotext Dialog. |
| Language Packs | Open the Language Packs
Dialog. |
| Fact Types | Open the Fact Types Dialog to work with fact definitions and fact sets. |
| Automatic Source Citations |
Open the Automatic Source Citation pane which you can use to define, and enable, an automatic source citation. When you have enabled an automatic source citation, new and updated data will automatically be given the defined citation. You can also copy and paste an automatic source citation, if you wish to apply it to existing data that you are not changing. When automatic source citations are enabled, the text 'Auto-Citation Enabled' will show in the last pane of the status bar, in the bottom right corner of the main application window. |
| Re-order Out-of-Sequence Data | Opens the Re-order Out-of-Sequence Data Dialog to check whether any data is in the wrong order (such as events, attributes, children, marriages, and spouses) and to re-order them, if necessary. |
| Uncategorised Data ► | 'Uncategorised Data Fields' (also known as UDFs) are fields
which Family Historian has created to store data that it does not
recognise. This can occur when a GEDCOM
file that was created by another application is opened or
imported, if the file contains fields which are invalid in some
way, or which are the other application's extensions to GEDCOM.
UDFs can also be created when you import a GEDCOM file into a new
project, if you previously chose the option Store
Uncategorised for handling other applications'
extensions to GEDCOM, in the File Load/Save tab
of Preferences. Family Historian treats
UDF data as text. The submenu allows you to either Find Uncategorised Data or Recover Uncategorised Data. If you choose the latter option, Family Historian will use the latest information it has to identify and process UDFs, to convert them into fields which can be fully incorporated into your project. Details of which fields were 'recovered' in this way, if any, are written to a log file. Log files can be accessed from the Windows menu. |
| <some plugins may be listed here> |
If you have installed or written any plugins (see next item),
you can opt for them to be added to the Tools menu. If so,
they will appear at this position on the Tools menu. |
| Plugins | Opens the Plugins Dialog which
shows a list of installed plugins. You can use the Plugins
Dialog to install more plugins, and to access the Family Historian
Plugin Store to download free plugins. You can also create
your own plugins if you wish using tools and documentation
provided. Everything you need to do this is available via
the Plugins Dialog. |
| Preferences | Open the Preferences Dialog to set your preferences for various aspects of the program. |