Family Historian User Group

I got into the site okay. I wanted to see both my parents' census entries. Annoyingly, on the first entry I paid £2.25 for a transcription and wondered why I couldn't see the census return itself - the £2.25 is just to see the transcription. I should have read the instructions correctly! I duly paid...

Again, I spoke too soon and still I couldn't open FH. I've removed Avast completely now and all seems well. Only time will tell.

Regards, Martin.

Jane, I tried it in Safe Mode and it worked fine. I made an 'exception' in Avast for the FH folder and now everything seems to be working. Thanks, Martin.

I spoke too soon. I closed FH after adding a new person and saving. I then tried reopening it but now it won't load again. I've tried it several times. I haven't opened it in safe mode yet although as explained above, it did load after I'd restarted the PC in normal mode.

I downloaded a few Windows 10 updates manually. They appeared to install. I then decided to restart the computer although there weren't any messages when it closed and reopened as happens with major updates. When computer was restarted I was able to open FH with no problems. Whether it was any thing...

I've also been using FH for years and it now won't open. I've even tried opening it from fh.exe in Windows Explorer but nothing. I get the opening FH rectangle in the middle of the screen but then it goes away. I'm using Avast not AVG. Cheers, Martin.

Thanks for the 50% Ancestry discount link Trevor. I've been thinking about subscribing again and I will get 12 months for the price of six!

Cheers, Martin.

Hi Mike. No, I have got the latest version on FH - I've always kept up-to-date. I'll amend my profile shortly.

Anyway, the Query worked and I've now got the marriage list I need - many thanks.

Regards, Martin.

Thanks Mike, I'll check that out.

Regards, Martin.

Tatewise: this is what I would like the column headings of the Query to look like: Day/Month..........Male spouse.............Female spouse.............Year The first column of 'Day/Month' (marriage date) e.g. 23 May, should be in ascending order. The reason for me wanting such a list is that today ...

Thanks for the replies. Although I've had FH since about 2002 I haven't really dabbled in Queries. I tried editing the Birthday Query and I got all the dates correct but somehow got the children of the married individuals rather than the individuals themselves! Anyway I have the FH manual so I'll ha...

Does anyone know how to order marriage dates by day and month? E.g. I would like to see something like this: 1 Jan 1981 1 Jan 1983 1 Jan 1987 2 Jan 1933 2 Jan 1947 8 Jan 1881 8 Feb 2001 ...and so on. If you try and do it in the records window with an (ordered) marriage date column, you get dates in ...

All appears to be installed now, once I uninstalled previous erroneous attempts!

Thanks for all your help and advice.

Martin.

Thanks but when I enter the key for version 4, the machine just locks up - it's happened twice now. I suspect this is one of the quirks of Windows 8 that everyone moans about. I'll give it another go in the morning.

Martin.

Thanks. I did download the evaluation version from the FH website, but only entered the version 5 licence key details, which it didn't like. Are you saying I have to initially enter version 4 licence key then the version 5 licence key?

Cheers, Martin.

I've recently had to get a new laptop as the previous one had given up the ghost. I've now got Windows 8. Consequently I had to reinstall FH. I've got FH discs from version 2 with all the upgrades to version 5. As I had version 2.1.8  for 2002-3 I had to install the CD backed installer as per instru...

Thanks. Yes, I have got V2, 3 & 4 plus the downloadable update to 4. No problem, I'll reinstall that way.

Regards, Martin.

This has probably been asked before: I've just got a new PC and want to intall FH on it. I've got all disks up to version 4, which I've been using on my previous computer so I could use them for the installation on the new machine. Alternatively can I just download the latest version from the FH web...

To complicate matters I have a man in my family tree that had an affair with his wife's sister. I have to show both relationships because there was a child from the illicit affair! I simply linked the man to the second sister as a spouse and credited the relationship as 'never married' in the marita...

Using Jane's method I reduced a 15 x 3 tree (45 pages) to a 10 x 2 (20 pages) tree with ease.

Martin.

Thanks Jane, I understand it now.

Regards, Martin.

I've just printed out a family tree for someone and it's 45 pages - a lot of taping to be done! Is there a way I can shrink the tree down to show the same info but on a smaller amount of sheets? I've already moved the grid around to make it three pages high as opposed to four pages. Regards, Martin....

Thanks incidentally to Maggie and Brian for their suggestions...

Martin.

Through trial and error, I worked out how to do it myself. I selected the All tab in the Property Box and selected the section and clicked on Clear Link and now the box is gone. In the meantime after my tree 'clean-up', another empty box had reared its ugly head and I disposed of that one also. Hope...

I think I may have had this problem before but I'm baffled as to what to do. On my tree I've a husband with two wives and it turns out that the first wife is the mother of the children, not the second. I unlinked the children from the second wife and assigned them to be the offspring of the first wi...