Family Historian User Group

Bill, I had PCs for years and eventually switched to Mac and then Reunion. I was totally frustrated at having always to buy anti virus software and find it hard to believe that Mr Gates can't build a better operating system which is less hackable and subject to blue screens and other hangups. I trie...

Jan, You may already know this but the Mac program, Reunion, ships with a sample file showing 5 generations of the Kennedy including short biographical notes, sources and good photos. If you go to the Reunion demo pages or the makers site, http://www.leisterpro.com, I think you can also access much ...

Think I prefer printing it as pdf and emailing that. The problem with putting any form of tree onto the net is that many people think that the tree is right, ie with all people, facts and links verified. I prefer emailing and writing to relatives and would only go onto the web when I'm absolutely ce...

Interesting reply from goodwin; I too use another program for data entry because I know it well and have been loyal to it since the early 1990s (PediTree - the windows version of Pedigree, British and nearly twenty years old now) as I'm still a newcomer and feeling my way with Family Historian. Wher...

3000 members, thats impressive. Anyone know roughly how many copies of FH have been sold. I'm guessing that it must be one of the most popular British programs now ?

One of lifes little ironies isn't it; this hobby involves investigating ancestors who've been dead for centuries, and aren't going anywhere yet some impatient types get tetchy because something is a couple of weeks 'late'.


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As a compulsory purchase would presumably be by either national government, the local authority or Borough, or possibly by another agency such as a railway or road or utility company, or the Forces, I would suggest a start by knowing which Borough the shop was in, and researching to see where their ...

Not necessarily, Pyrenees! OK this is an FH Forum, but others are hovering like you. I have purchased FH3 and think it's excellent. However I also have an iMac and run Reunion 9.07 on that; I really like Apple products, their design is way ahead of the PC world; and the Mac and Reunion, but I'm unce...

I'm presuming they are running 'Reunion', in which like most decent programs, there is a procedure under, File, Import, where one can import or export a Gedcom file. The other main mac program, heredis, has a similar feature. I have an iMac and have just checked this. While I like FH3, I hate Window...

I've been contemplating a sub to Ancestry for a while, but have heard tales of exactly this sort of scenario. think i might stay loyal to Findmypast with whom i have no complaints

I'm with you philjo. I'll wait until all the hullabaloo dies down and access it later for nothing[smile] via FMP.

I've waited nearly 100 years and so a few more months now is fine. What's the hurry??[rolleyes]

Thanks , pwe, from another recent newcomer for a good and concise explanation.

I would stick the sheets together with Magic Tape, a better grade of matt sellotape. Once you've done that, take the taped sheets to a commercial or high street printer who will print you a single same size copy of the composite 2 x 6 taped sheets. Tidy that up and touch up any imperfections; work o...

Not quite the same I know, but the iTouch enables you to take any jpg images with you via iPhoto. So i take images of all my drawn family trees with me when I travel. The fun part comes when you are able to connect the iTouch to someones TV and see the tree at a reasonable size. I guess the iPhone a...

KSS, They're called senier momunts. your spolling goes to pot after so muny years, a bit like your hard drive and its duplicate files :-) My real problem is filing a record somewhere like a marriage certificate; a few years pass; I get inspired and come back to that family branch and think I must ge...

Richard, Windows XP; Parallels version 3; OS X Leopard. my imac is only two months old and apart from a few hundred photos, and two or three standard Windows applications, family Historian 3, and pedigree, is still almost empty. I don't think my machine is behaving itself completely when i'm in Para...

Richard, I'm always willing to learn something new, and if I can genuinely use the mac in the background as you say, then happy days. So far though I have definitely found it to be one or the other ie Windows or mac. if I hit any mac icon or something in the Dock when I am in Parallels under Windows...

Thanks both for quick and thorough response

Doh!

The small print which they should mention with either Boot Camp or Parallels is worth a mention. With either one, once you've got Family Historian and Windows set up to run on the iMac, you need to know that you have to reinstall your printer to run under Windows; the mac connection won't help you. ...

This has probably been aired before, but as a relative newcomer to the FHUG Forum, I would enjoy being able to see quickly where someone is from, or at least what continent, on their member details or rather the details of people posting to messages etc.. it's quite often the case that a reply to a ...

This is an interesting thread which gets right to the heart of FH programs and this hobby. Sources are a complex issue as stated above and are one of the reasons why many amateurs get turned off certain programs because entering sources correctly is perceived as 'difficult', wrongly of course. I too...

Thanks for that gladtobegrey: a really useful suggestion. i'm new to the program so wouldn't mind a bit more explanation about how you get the icon into the boxes in a diagram, please.

Thanks for the other suggestions too, they've helped me a lot

Thanks Jane for your help. i'm not sure about how I will enter Wills yet as I'm still finding out about the program and haven't done so yet. I think I would enter the date of the will, a place of abode where straight forward and a brief summary of the content, and whether I actually had the will on ...

I am fairly new to FH and would like a little help with Wills, please I can see how to enter details of these by adding an Event to a person's detail record, but can I print out some form of report or table which can show me exactly which Wills i have on my files. (necessary to avoid ordering a copy...

Dianne, i know that the other thread Jane refers to covers most of the points, but just thought that i would add here, that FH3 most definitely can be run on an iMac, using Parallels. i've recently done exactly this and find it works fine. You do have to remember carefully which operating system you...