Family Historian User Group

I agree with a lot of what has been said in this thread. As a FH user since purchasing a boxed v.2.1 years ago and all of its subsequent upgrades, I wasn't expecting anything like this and got caught unawares during installation of the upgrade. It should have been opt-in, not opt-out.

It also infringes the FH licence terms:

I sought clarification of FH's views in respect of my ideas, in advance.

The virtual PC will be less expensive than a real one and its use will not be reflected on my electricity account.

Can you give more specific details of the virtual server & remote access app you have successfully used. i.e. Name of product, web site address, cost of use, ease of installing FH & AS, do Plugins run, etc... Then I can add a page to our Knowledge Base for the benefit of other iPad users who want t...

Following up on my earlier posting, installing FH on a virtual server has proved not just possible but practical as an alternative to a PC or laptop. The same goes for Ancestral Sources. So I can now continue to use FH as my tool for maintaining trees without needing a PC or laptop, using just my iP...

I recommend having a look at MobileFamilyTree 7, by Synium Software GmbH. I export my trees to GED files, copy them to my DropBox folder, then open them on my iPad in MFT7. There is no limit to the number of trees that can be imported in this way. It isn't an alternative to Family Historian, but a p...