Family Historian User Group

I have just purchased a new computer with Windows 7 installed. I have the FH3 disc which is not installed at the moment. Should I install FH3 and then download the FH5 update or is it easiest to purchase the new FH5 disc straight away.

I followed your instructions exactly and when I got to the folder "Graham Buss Version 4 Family Tree.fh_data" I found an old dated file stating Graham Buss Version 4 Family Tree.fh_proj by the side of the folder. Underneath it says Family History Project File. I tried to open this file but...

The exact wording is "Unable to open file C:\Documents and Settings\Graham\My Documents\Family Historian Projects\Graham Buss Version 4 Family Tree\Graham Buss Version 4 Family Tree.fh_data\Graham Buss Version 4 Family Tree. ged. File not found". I have not renamed the files or moved them ...

I have 3 projects on the go. When I open Family Historian it of course goes straight to the Project Window. 2 of the projects have the correct date that I opened them last but the one I use most says " last updated 01/01/1970". It was in fact last week. When I try to open it a message says...

Could anyone help with this problem which I'm sure is somewhere in the help manual but I can't find it. My Grandfather (T) had a mother (E) who was married to (J) but he was not the father of (T). From later documents we believe the father of (T) was (W) who was in fact the brother of (J). My questi...

Jane

Thanks for your help. I have just re-installed the version 4 disc and everything seems ok.

Graham

Jane I have the original Version 3 with the update disc for version 4. Should I install both? Sorry I didn't see what file. The only extra bit of information was that I had Family Historian open when I first tried to run the update, but I closed it before I tried the second run. Would this have made...

I have just opened Family Historian and a message came up to say there was update to version 4, (02 I think). I downloaded the update and then ran it as it said. An error message came up and gave me 3 alternatives retry, abort or ignore (not recommended) so I retried but still the same message, so I...

Sorry Jane but I'm completely confused now. I have deleted the project from V4 and started again. I have opened a new project. It says do I wish to import from another source and asks me for a file name. The version 3 one which I last edited on 11-07-09 is the one I put into this block earlier but i...

Jane I have just noticed something after opening up Family Historian again. It looks as though I must have opened a Project when Version 4 first came up because when I opened Working with External Files this time I have noticed from File Links I have a folder called Project Data Folder. It then says...

Jane In external links I clicked on the highest directory with an x on it and this was the photo folder title. All photos in the folder have an x on them. I clicked on remap and then remap to another location. What opened up was Browse for Folder with My Documents,My Computer and My Network Places s...

Jane I have opened the Works with External Links and it opened at the last time I modified. I opened the file links to the photos and noticed that all I can see on the family tree are ok but all those that had a X through them also have an X through them on the file links. I can't find out how to ac...

I have version 3 and have just loaded the version 4.0.0 update disc. When I opened my original GEDCOM file after the update and go to my ascendants/descendants SOME of the pictures are still showing on my family but others have now been replaced by a large X. I have tried replacing the pictures whic...

Thanks all. I moved all my photos to a different file name and deleted the originals, but unfortunately the Family Historian package is still trying to find them from the original picture file. The FH package doesn't seem to like using the new place for my photos on the diagrams I had already produc...

Hello Rob I am new to the Family Historian package and am not really that computer literate so sorry but I don't know what a text editor is and therefore don't know where to start. I forgot to say on my original e-mail that this all occurred when I was inserting a photo and by mistake I pushed the C...

Over the passed few weeks I have gratually been placing a photograph of each person in my family tree. Just now I opened the previous version and the photographs were all there. I then added a new one, as I have done before, and suddenly all the photos are not there and instead there is just a large...

Jane

Thanks for your reply but I can't find 'detect duplicates' even in the help menu. Sorry to be so thick!!

Graham

My father (A) has a brother (B). There are 2 girls, my Mother (C) and her Aunt (D). (A) marries (C) and (B) marries (D). When I put them in the family tree there are 2 blocks for (B) and (D). How can I make them as only one or is this not possible? Hope this makes sense. As you can see my Aunt is my...

I have discovered that amongest my forefathers were 2 brothers, one whose father is known and the other unknown. When I put unknown father for brother 1 it shows on the view ascendants & descendants as both brothers unknown father and vice versa if I put father's name for brother 2. Help please....

Hello PeterE

Thanks very much for your information. I carried out your instructions in paragraph 1 and everything worked splendidly.
Thanks again

Graham[smile]

I am very new to this Family Historian package. I am trying to insert a picture in the ancestors etc. area. I have tried the tutorials and even my own small family tree using my own pictures, but each time I select one person by drawing the box around the head from a group photo, select 'insert as n...