Finds potentially duplicated Individual records by comparing the Names and key Events of selected Individuals and their immediate Relations.
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- Family Historian Version(s): V5 V6 V7
- Plugin Type: Standard
- Written by Mike Tate
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Version History
- V3.8: Updated library functions; Option to boost matching BMD event scores;
Add GEDCOM 5.5.1 FONE & ROMN to NAME & PLAC; FH V7 Lua 3.5 IUP 3.28 compatible; - V3.7: Fixes issues with duplicate close relatives, missing Update date, and ± character;
- V3.6: Supports FH V6 IUP 3.11.2 with Unicode and new Soundex coding;
- V3.5: New GUI library and F1 key Help for current tab.
- V3.4: Omit Non-Duplicates tab allows multiple item selection, plus other user interface updates, and some problem fixes.
- V3.3: Progress messages if loading large family Relation Pools.
- V3.2: Considers Cremation events. No longer forces Progress Bar into focus.
- V3.1: Now assesses ALL instances of immediate Relations and ALL instances of the key Events.
- V3.0: First published Plugin Store version.
- V2.x: Omit Non-Duplicates and Set Preferences tabs added.
- V1.x: Proof of concept, work in progress, version in FHUG only.
I’m in the process of tidying up my FTM file so that I can use FH later this year (I’ve just about exhausted what’s on Ancestry so my membership will expire later this year and I’m now subscribed to FindMyPast). I exported a Gedcom from FTM to check for duplicate individuals using FH and this plugin. If the Gedcom is simply imported as a new project then the plug-in fails to find any duplicates. Making a simple change to one individual then allows the plug-in to work although only one individual is checked.
If the Gedcom is merged with an existing dummy project (just one individual) then the plug-in runs and finds the duplicates in the original file.
Doing some debugging I located the issue that the plug-in requires a CHAN entry for each individual otherwise it won’t list it as a possible entry to be matched as only changed records are checked.
I modified the code so that it would ignore the lack of CHAN and the plug-in successfully ran and found duplicates.
This is not a major issue for me as I have a successful work around but it may be worth considering for a future upgrade of either the plug-in or FH6.
The plugin now copes with missing Updated (CHAN) items.
regardless of what I select (all individuals, individuals by query, etc) nothing happens
Plugin error
… Historian/Plugins\Find Dublicate Individuals.ft_lua:714: Cannot make folder: no such file or directory. No changes have been made to data records.
Sorry! That error message usually lists the folder path that it cannot make and would help me diagnose the problem.
My suspicion is that the folder path includes a non-ANSI extended Unicode accented character or symbol.
That is a potential problem for any plugin that uses folders & files and I am gradually working through my plugins to update them.