Family Historian User Group

You are quite right Peter - we're going to Kettering (because that's where everyone's from, and I've never been there), but I'll be going to the Records Office in Northampton.

I blame spending the day in front of family history typing in 'Kettering' for addling my brain!

Having spent ages looking at that screen, I completely missed that...thank you!

My long-suffering other half is coming with me to Kettering, where I'm going to be installing myself in the Records Office for a couple of days. She likes to get out and 'do' things - anything, so has offered to look around graveyards for headstones and memorials for me (I suppose it's her penance f...

Hi all, I'm debating going on a Family Historian Course. Since I've been using it for about a year, and have experience of using (and writing) all sorts of databases, I'm not sure if it's worth going on the Beginner's course, or whether to jump straight to the Intermediate. Does the Beginners Course...

tatewise said: I cannot identify your problems with the limited description given. Try posting images of either Work with External File Links or Windows Explorer to show your folder structure. Also you do not say how you synch your laptop & netbook - Dropbox is a popular solution. As far as copying...

Prepare yourselves for a stupid question... I'm using Ancestral Sources to input census information (because I'm lazy, and like the fact that's everything's cross-referenced, etc). However, one of my relations was a servant, living in the household of her employer. When I enter the information for a...

And, being slightly geeky, has it been written to take all the changes Windows 8 will introduce into account? In many ways, FH seems like the ideal Metro-style application.

tatewise said: -snip- There are significant advantages in achieving that set-up. All the Multimedia file links become relative to the FH Media folder, instead of absolute. This allows the whole Project folder to be saved/moved to another disk, copied to say a USB pen-drive, transferred to a new PC,...

Just to stick my (inexperienced) tuppence in... I've gone the opposite way from most people here (I guess I'm just contrary): There is a multimedia folder, that's not within the FH Folder (when I tried, it seemed awkward to do it the way I wanted within FH). Each person has a folder dedicated to the...