Family Historian User Group

Thanks Mike.
I think I can understand that, I will get reading. Many thanks.

Hi All, Getting there slowly.. I have read the help documents mentioned in the above message. I have re-opened my account with ancestry.com and downloaded an image of one of the census documents. It has the following filename when it comes from ancestry.com 1861EnglandCensus_320567765 and it is now ...

Done, done, done and voted! many thanks again.
John.

here is the second screen shot.

Me again, I'm afraid. I have just been given information by a relative of three new people to add to my tree. So I have added a wife (of an existing person) and her parents. This shows up when I click on the 'All relatives diagram' button at the top as a fragment of tree with just the four people co...

Many thanks to all.

The multiple names issue has been resolved as well, thanks to your links.

Many thanks. That seems to have sorted it out and the duplicates have magically disappeared!

Hi, I have got two instances of myself, my wife and the two boys. How do I go about removing the right hand instance? This began because Jack Bateson was born out of wedlock and is Jack Garbutt on his birth certificate. In trying to record this, I have created another person who has picked up the wi...

I have imported the gedcom file I made in ancestry.co.uk into family historian v5. of course all the images of birth certicates etc have been left behind. I don't really want to spend £60 on family tree maker just to us it to bulk import the document images. I have time on my side! Can I download th...

Many thanks, I may have it sorted now???!!! Intially quite complex looking interface. I'm sure I will get used to it!

Hi, i have just opened fam hist v.5 for the first time, created a new project. I was asked to name the focus person, and two others, which I did: myself, Mum and Dad. I then loaded in the 3 quite big gedcom files i had downloaded from ancestry.com to populate it. I merged them and all seemed well. H...