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I moved it since it was a rehash of an earlier post by JSPhilips which I could not see was adding anything to the forums, especially as Simon had clearly stated in a recent announcement the state of play for V7. Since you seem to think this is a problem I have moved it back and locked it. I have hos...

If you are looking mainly for Ancestor trees you could simply draw one in FH using text boxes and use the data link options to fill in the boxes as required. As Ancestor trees are a fixed format (i.e 1 child 2 parents) it would work similar to the Fan chart. There is a sample Ancestor chart which us...

Please note due to overwhelming support applications have been suspended.

Posted by Simon Orde on the Groups IO List Wanted: Family Historian Beta Testers for Version 7 Family Historian 7 has been in beta testing for some time now. The current beta testers are doing a great job and it's all going very well. We now want to increase the numbers and extend our pool of beta t...

I think it's a character position. If you open in an editor like PSPAD there is a go to by character.

There are several ways to handle this you can set up two sets of parents which I suspect is what you have done so far. Personally I have a custom event which I use with Possible Parents to link in parents I am not sure about so neither is shown as the definitive. You can still research and record bo...

I suspect you are using the Export plug in rather than the built in export? If so can you confirm exactly what settings you have used so Mike can help you with his plugin.

If you have the media locally then you can add it using Add Media. Personally I always download video from the web if it is important to me, but if you don't want to do this, you could always add a "graphic" for the media record and put the url in the media note. It won't be a live link in V6, but i...

I don't think so, the Find option is a string search, i.e. it searches for the specific string. The Filter on the Records Window list splits the name into two fields so it is better for searching for names.

With the mapping, if you have imported a large tree it will take a while to do the geocoding and if you don't have full place names they probably won't geocode correctly. So if you just enter Boston you will probably get the one in the US.

As Mike says more details of your issue would help.

According to the AS Help Witness Role: The witness role was first introduced in version 6 of Family Historian specifically as a method to associate individuals with a fact. Therefore this is almost certainly the best method to use if you have Family Historian 6 and is the default scheme used in Ance...

"embedded" pictures in V2/V3/V4 meant that the data was stored in the Gedcom file. I think you are confusing pictures being the Project folder with Embedded. There is no problem with having quite large numbers on images attached to a Project, if you have a few thousand images it's worth turning off ...

This plugin will convert the current contents of the Clipboard to capitalize case e.g NETHERLANDS (DUTCH SUBJECT) --> Netherlands (Dutch Subject) and If you download and install you can then open it from the Tools>Plugins menu. You can also use the More button to add it to the tools menu to have qui...

I have never seen a Waterfall for Ancestors, you can do descendant waterfalls, by using keep near parents on a right left diagram for the oldest child in each generation, but I am not sure how clear an ancestor one would be unless you don't follow all lines.

The left right and right left diagrams were already on the View>Standard Diagrams menu.

Have you tried Diagram>Options and selecting Left Right or Right Left for direction, or using a Fan Chart, or using Knowledge Base > Diagram Type ~ Compact Ancestor Tree

What I have done previously is to include Year, Month and Day as separate columns in the query which makes it easier to make comparisons etc in Excel

Another way is to create a Query adding all the Ancestors of those attending, then use the Query to mark all the boxes and then invert and hide the rest as Mike has already explained.

Have you considered using Family Historian? You can attach any files you like to a Media record add notes to them and use Source records to group them together. Media records can have keywords attached as well. You can have a separate Project file for all those "Miscellaneous" documents that don't h...

The best way to prepare diagrams for books is to build them in the normal diagram option then save them in Chart (Diagram>Save As Chart) to be included into the book.

I have 40,000 matches in the 6-8cm range, somehow I don't think I will be checking them all.

To add a bunch of people to a Named list from a diagram or record window, select the boxes/records and then select "Edit>Add to Named List" from the menu.

I doubt multiple property boxes would be possible without a radical redesign as they are entry points not something to view. Personally I use diagrams and named lists along with Query result sets when working with disparate people. Have you experimented with diagrams or charts as a home, you could a...

I simply sync my whole Family Historian Projects folder to my phone and open the gedcom file in the .fh_data folder, it just works. You don't need to mess about exporting anything. To do the sync I have shared my Work folder on our internal network and use the Folder Sync app on the phone to copy ev...

Renumbering a Gedcom is better done using the Record Identifier tool, but it still does not guarantee the pool numbers will stay in that order and when you save your Gedcom if you are not changing the record IDs they will go back into number order.