Family Historian User Group

Cor Blimey - i have a snipping tool on my PC and I never knew. Works a treat as my Edge certainly has no view or copy image options and I don't wish to change my default browser or reboot to make that change to Chrome for FH7 purposes only. Anyhows that snip works for me and far better than print sc...

Interesting. One reboot later and I've just rid myself of Internet Explorer 11. And good riddance. Its a on/off item hidden under control panel>program and features>turn windows features on or off. Edge still merrily present and identified as default. FH7 booted up and opened a web search window at ...

Thanks Mike - still no joy. I'm in the FH web search window. Images of baptism, census etc - right click offers no view or copy image option. I do have a FMP sub. There is the FMP download link at bottom which works but then that drops image onto PC needing me to find, rename and drop into right spo...

Thanks. Yes. One of the pages I skimmed. Doesn't help or at least doesn't work when am viewing a FMP image. No ability to copy nor drag. Hence assumption its not possible - for copyright or other reasons?

Hi I wanted to confirm my assumption that you cannot drag n drop (or cut n paste) directly from a web search window viewing FMP into FH7. Sorry I couldn't find anything saying you can't but lots of positive about doing those actions if not specifically from FMP. Just wanting a quicker workflow and s...

Hi My tree has become out of control and a mess and in dire need of hefty prune to remove widely speculative and down right daft. Considered a fresh start but would rather work out some clean way of removing all data beyond my 5 xGG's. Split tree looks daunting and not obvious how I use that to achi...

I also am a retired software professional and very pleased with the quality and stability of FH.

Ah so thats how you so darn helpful with this ! Great stuff. And I don't ever recall you saying "have you tried switching off and re-booting !"

Hi Due to different programs, different users and changing protocols over time (6-7 yrs) my GED is a rather inconsistent jumble. I am very closely minded to starting a fresh rather than stumble along for an age trying to correct. However, the front end (the facts associated with individuals) is not ...

cheers

just a quick correction point on web - at the foot of the import from FTM page is a link to clean up notes plugin....but the link actually takes you to search and replace plugin. (http://www.family-historian.co.uk/plugi ... try?id=117)

No worries. Not recognising 'TMG' I was on Family Tree Maker 2014 before the switch. List under > individual > source tag set : standard death and burial1 military military2 then custom / defined and UDF tag nothing pops up under family records (just standard) or other records tab (just defined tags...

Ah ha ! Thanks Mike. That worked after a fashion. I did exactly as you suggested selected 'other' and then (a nice surprise) rather than it plough on and do it, each event popped up for me to accept or skip. Fortunately as the FTM had typically presented a similar address for the probates I knew wha...

Thanks for reply. Didn't want to tediously list everything I skimmed but yes I sure did. Downloaded. Installed. Sat scratching head for 15mins as to how it worked then felt I was doing the equivalent of brain surgery with the capability of applying but a plaster ! To a lay person it was not obvious ...

Hi all I have found that many of my 'will' facts (as I call them) are identified as 'other*' in the 'sources for' box beneath which will be a an entry for E&W Probate etc. This will be due to the FTM origin of the GED. Is there a simple way in which I can change this fact , either by individual or e...

[This continues from the 12591|place / address posting but in a new direction.] Thanks Mike - I do try to skim content before posting but the results given the subject were many and caused info overload :? albeit left me posing the questions with the suspicion of the answers. Thank you for reply whi...

Apologies this may be a basic one from a FH newbie. My data migrated from an Ancestry GED. I can see either through that origin or through my own poor practice that my FH data for places contains predominantly specific addresses. I do overtime want to correct this so I work to what I believe is the ...

Thanks guys some useful stuff there and top marks to that family search pdf which I'd never seen before. A few years ago I was still subscribed to Your Family Tree and asked basic same question on that forum. Was picked up by the magazine and they said they'd run a piece - alas the subsequent articl...

Hi This may come a little left of field for a digital orientated forum. Something that has vexed me for awhile is that after a few years chasing my ancestors I've amassed a significant amount of digital media plus a comparative smaller volume of paperwork ..wills, BMDs etc. Whilst I'd give me digita...

thanks Mike. Having reviewed looks like I will be reorganising myself to method 1. The ancestral sources plug in and the fact sets I've downloaded (and surprised these aren't packaged with the program) are far more fluent and logical than anything I got via FTM. Will descend into the cave and return...

PS: forgot to add another pain I have found is my pdf media isn't recognised and i guess thats because FH6 doesn't support. Wont be stuck for jobs !

Many thanks for help and advice. I have now relocated my media into the FH folders and was able to relink so all are uncrossed and live. However I do still find the majority are not immediately obvious when clicking individuals. I do think your right that FTM has attributed the media to events or fa...

thanks for reply. i'm open to change but am i right in saying that if i do migrate all media into fh6 they will all then sit in one folder with no subsequent structure? i currently have media organised around bmd, cenus, probate, news articles, phtos etc. where they sit doesnt worry me its having th...

Hi I am switching from FTM to FH6. I followed the instructions for creating GED from FTM and have imported into FH6. I have always retained my media files in structured folders seperate from the FTM folder structure and it worked well and I know FH6 works similarily. So when I imported I didn't clic...