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Thanks for the reply.
Think the best course then is to upgrade to version 7. My issue now is how to find my licence key for my version 5 copy to get my 20% discount.

I am currently running version 5 of family historian and was thinking of upgrading to a later edition. I note that the latest paid for edition is version 7. Is version 8 due soon?
Thanks

Sadly I cant get access to the original Family Historian program directory but that isn't proving to be a major problem. The only thing I'm now having difficulty with is trying to locate the original icons (dots, Triangles, and arrows etc) so that I can use them with flags. I use a number of my own ...

Many thanks Mike and Lorna. I followed the advice above and managed to copy the cd on to a memory stick. I then managed to install version 5 on my new laptop. I can access my projects and all looks ok apart from the issue with the flags and ive lost a custom query I had created which generates my li...

hi Lorna,
That seems like a way forward. My daughter still has a CD drive and I have a spare usb stick so will give that a go.
Many thanks.

just a quick update the 30 day free trial of version 5 downloaded without problem I saved all my projects to a usb stick under a folder called Family Historian Projects so changed the location to this folder and the trees loaded in the main correctly. The one small snag is that I use a lot of Flags ...

I tried downloading the 30 day trial and then entering the 36 character registration key that came with my original purchase. unfortunately that didn't work
Any suggestions or is it a case of purchasing and downloading the latest version?

Hi Mike, Thanks for the speedy reply. I don't have any Media to worry about I.e no photos or scans of certificates or census records. I purchased a complete version 5 (not an upgrade) so have the CD and of course the registration Key. I'm hoping I can download the 30 day trial version from here http...

Unfortunately my 8 year old Sony Viao laptop died on me over Christmas requiring me to purchase a new laptop. Unfortunately I didn't notice that new laptops don't have CD drives anymore. seems everything has to be downloaded via the web these days. I have been running FH version 5 and was wondering ...

Thanks Mike. Should have looked in the events options.

I've been doing a lot of work on the line of succession to the British throne and the descendants of the Electress Sophia. I've come across a number of marriages that have been Annuled rather than ending in divorce. There doesn't seem to be an option in the status box to record this. Is there a reas...

Thanks for the quick reply Mike, I thought it might be easier than that but never mind. Would have been interesting. Also noticed that there seems to be a limit on the maximum Ahnentafel Number. Eg Robert II of Normandy( William the conqueror's father) has a number 1,074,044,980. and Margaret of Wes...

Should have remembered to say I'm still using Version 5 of Family Historian

You may recall that I have been using Family Historian to record genealogical data on the Royal Family as well as my own. ( haven't found a common ancestor yet. I can see that Prince George is a descendant multiple times over to Charlemagne but I wondered how many routes there are. I can see this Pi...

Has anyone accessed the 1939 register on find my past yet? Is it worth The £6.95 per household?

Having two monitors is also very useful!

In short you can't run family historian on an I pad or I pad mini. However what you can do is view the gedcom file that family historian creates in another app. Personally I first imported the gedcom file into an app called Gedview but that was fiddle. I gave now imported into Ancestry using the Anc...

Yes a huge thank you from me fas well or all the effort you guys put in to maintain this excellent forum. I have learnt so much from you all of which has increased my enthusiasm for using the software.

Hope you all enjoy a peaceful and merry Christmas.

Dave Lewis
Milton Keynes

When I first started accumulating certificates and Census records for our family Ancestors it became failrly obvious that I was going to need some sort of system for filing it all. I quickly cottoned on to the idea of using Ahnentafel numbers and bought a binder and a set of dividers numbered 1-31, ...

Last year I was strugling to construct a query that would show up how many of the Electress Sophia's (basically George the first's mother) female descendants had died in childbirth. Original thread in locked forum here http://www.fhug.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=6727 Now having finaly upgr...

Thank you very much Mike, Most helpful (as always) Have been getting on really well with the new software. Have started to add sources, and add copies of my dads Birth Marriage and Death Certificates as multimedia files that is during the adding sources procedure. However they dont appear under the ...

New software now installed and have managed to import both into family historian and create projects for them. Both trees look refreshingly familiar so i'm happy so far. However I have hit my first very minor snag. I tend to keep all my files saved on to a Memory stick rather than my C drive ( I als...

Finally after much hesitation I have decided to upgrade from version 3, which I have loved using, to version 5. I'm looking forward to exploring some of the new features it will offer. However before I run headlong into installing the new software are there any activities I ought to undertake. I hav...

Many thanks for your replies. I have gone into my profile and added my version of Family Historian.

I really should upgrade to version 5 but Ive never got round to it. I enjoy working with version 3, it really has given me a lot of pleasure over the years.

HowardRP i note tfrom a previous post in this thread that you are working on a Royal Family project. I would be interested to hear how you are doing. I started some years ago tryng to record ALL the descendents of the Electress Sophia. I now have a family tree containing around 20,000 people , aroun...