Family Historian User Group

Hi Mike, sorry for the confusion. You are quite right about my memory! I have FH V6.2.7 on my desktop, connected to the internet. This is the version I have just corrected with your help. I have my master on a new stand-alone laptop running V6.0 (from disk). I considered a "temporary" link to the in...

Many thanks for the help. Having ticked the boxes, everything is now OK. My concern is how did these preferences get changed - I was not even aware of where to find them! Is this problem unique to me, or have other people noted it. I note that "Autosave on Close" was not an option on Vn 6.0. Keeping...

There have been a few Windows upgrades recently, but I can't be certain about a direct link between them and the changes to FH as I don't use FH every day. Windows upgrades nearly always change my search-engine preferences and sometimes disable my sound system, but I usually see that immediately. Wh...

A few weeks ago, the option to backup stopped appearing when closing down - not a major problem, I could always manually do it. Now, the save option has also disappeared, so changes made in the last few minutes can be lost unless I remember to save manually. Is there any reason for this? I'm running...

Thanks for that excellent explanation Antony. Adrian, I have come across another reason for issuing another birth certificate, see attached copy. I've not sent all of the copy as the person concerned is still alive. However, the birth was registered on 3rd July 1946, and this certificate for "Nation...

Thanks Adrian, that would make perfect sense. Ann's parents had been living in Bognor Regis (as the father's address shows), but for some reason Ann was born in Petersfield. Ann and her mother Bronwen then went to live with Bronwen's mother at the family home in Westbourne for a couple of months bef...

I attach a damaged copy of the "duplicate" certificate so you can see the placement of the "purposes" box and the extra info in the "informant" box. Hope this is of some interest.

David

I also have one of these "duplicate" certificates for my cousin born on 26 August 1938. This was dated 18 July 1947 and clearly states it was issued for the purposes of "FAMILY ALLOWANCES ACT" in a dedicated box at the top of the certificate. The birth was not registered until 8 October 1938, and th...

Mike and Adrian, many thanks for your helpful replies. Mike, I am fully aware of the Title attribute in the Facts list, as that is where all my titles are stored. What I did NOT know was how to transfer them to the Box , and since Occupation was included in one of the standard schemes in Diagram Opt...

I have been helping my granddaughter with a project to produce a family tree of the royal family. What I want to do is have the title (say Queen Victoria) as well as the actual name (in this case Alexandrina Victoria) in the box. This is more important with recent kings who have had names totally di...

Thanks Mike That has made my options much clearer. I shall upgrade to FH V7 on the desktop to use all the excellent new features. Since the laptop would only have to go online for installation and validation, I shall upgrade that too for compatibility. Is it legally acceptable to have 2 copies regis...

I have my master tree using FH 6 on a dedicated laptop which is not connected to the internet. All data are backed up on an external hard drive for further security. I keep a backup copy of the full program on my main computer in order to be able to use features like mapping. Since both computers us...

There are only 1837 Place Records! Thanks for the advice about how not to do it. I will start with the closest family and do a few and check them before moving on.

Many thanks once again

David

Mike I must be using the FULL format as everything in the Place box is shown on the diagram. I don't remember selecting it - is that the default? For example, Newport, IoW is displayed in full, which is fine as that is what I want. I have found some odd place plottings, but realise FH has different ...

Thanks Mike I have never seen the need to have a logical structure for place names in FH until now. When using a normal database, I always have several columns (house name, street 1 & 2, district, town, county, zipcode, country) to allow easy searching. In general, in FH I have entered only the town...

I have a very large number of relatives from Portsmouth, and I have been trying to locate them with the excellent map function. If I drag the map marker to any individual's actual location for birth, marriage or death, all markers for anyone from Portsmouth move to the same place - obviously. The on...

Thanks for the advice Mike After a long delay while moving house I have successfully transferred FH to my new computer. However, due to the delay, when I backed up the old file it was on version 6.2.5, and now I have restored it onto 6.2.7. You specifically said I should update both computers to the...

I am just about to buy a new computer to replace my increasingly unreliable old one. I purchased Family Historian 6 a while ago on CD. The loaded version has now been updated automatically in several stages to V6.2.4. If I load my CD onto the new computer, will it automatically update itself to 6.2....

Thanks Jane and Gowermick

Good to know I shall still be able to log in, but very sensible advice about keeping an independent e-mail.

David

I've looked through FAQs, etc, but can't see an obvious answer. Apologies if I've missed something. I'm soon moving house. The phone has been disconnected so I have no new number, and I will have to set up a new e-mail address with a different provider. Will I be still be able to log in to FHUG with...

Lorna and Mike

I have corrected the data indicated by Lorna's query, and have now run all the checks suggested by Mike, and there are no more errors shown.

Many thanks for your help.

David

Thanks Lorna I certainly did not create Death Facts myself as I did not know how to do it at that stage! I imported my tree into Family Historian V4 from Family Tree 4 which did have a separate entry for all events. I assume that is when the Death Facts were created. I then upgraded direct to V6 whi...

Many thanks to you both. Nigel, Lorna is right, Emma's birth registration details are indeed a Note. It seems that if there are not enough Facts, Notes are also displayed in the Focus Window. I will look at changing the default for this. Lorna, brilliant detective work. Ages now appear. The Death Fa...

Thanks Mike After I sent you the screen shot, my younger son's age suddenly appeared in the Focus Window. I had not changed any data or settings - it was just there. However the ages of his family did not appear. I am therefore sending you his Focus Window with his son's Property Box. You can see th...

Thanks Mike - it's a perfectly logical question.

Yes, they all have Birth Event with Date listed under Facts. I attach a screen shot of my younger son's Facts for your info.

David