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by clionamhic
12 May 2021 20:06
Forum: General Usage
Topic: FH V7 project on a different drive
Replies: 4
Views: 1613

Re: FH V7 project on a different drive

Thanks for your replies Bill, Helen and Mike. I set the location as you described Mike and still had the same problem, but following a restart it is now opening as expected. The error message read: 'Unable to open file D:\Dropbox...etc. An unknown error has occurred'
Thanks again for your help.
Cliona
by clionamhic
11 May 2021 22:42
Forum: General Usage
Topic: FH V7 project on a different drive
Replies: 4
Views: 1613

FH V7 project on a different drive

I have installed FH7 on the C drive on a Windows 10 PC. I have always held my FH Projects in a Dropbox folder so as to be able to access it from my laptop too, my problem is that Dropbox is on the D drive on this PC whereas FH has installed on C Drive. I did not think this would be a problem but FH7...
by clionamhic
22 Nov 2013 23:44
Forum: General Usage
Topic: How to record more than bare facts?
Replies: 15
Views: 8865

Re: How to record more than bare facts?

Thank you all for such a comprehensive response to my (first) query on this forum. I am genuinely impressed, and your replies and the information contained therein just reinforce my impression of Family Historian 5 as the very best family history software on the market. FH3 was my first genealogy so...
by clionamhic
21 Nov 2013 23:58
Forum: General Usage
Topic: How to record more than bare facts?
Replies: 15
Views: 8865

Re: How to record more than bare facts?

Thank you all for the very helpful replies. It hadn't dawned on me to use Note Records - I think this sounds like an excellent idea, especially as I can add sources to it. I also take the point about how this text will appear on reports. I've been concentrating on adding sources (retrospectively :oo...
by clionamhic
20 Nov 2013 20:45
Forum: General Usage
Topic: How to record more than bare facts?
Replies: 15
Views: 8865

How to record more than bare facts?

I have come across some records for various ancestors that have prompted me to further research on the context in which these events happened. For example I found on a 1910 US census that a relation had served in the Union Navy in the American Civil War. From this I found a pension index card with t...