Family Historian User Group

The 3 generation limit in GEDmill is pretty hardcoded -- fine for embedding a mini-tree in an individual's page -- but it would be a total rewrite to generate a tree for a whole family line (and one I can't take on). That sounds fair enough! Good luck with your further exploration of SVG-FTG. Your ...

Isabel – Thanks for your encouragement – great to know I’m not alone! Helen (and Mike) - I really appreciate all the work you have put in on exploring possible alternative approaches. When I saw your first post, Helen, I too downloaded GEDmill and found that it worked fine on Windows 10 and with a r...

Hi Adrian Thank you for your suggestion: I have indeed done quite a bit of research into alternative platforms for family history websites and gave much thought to the decision to try building my own! Various factors led to it. Firstly, I wanted to produce something that would be accessible both to ...

AAAAH! I see! Thanks, Mike, for a very clear explanation. I did have some success in previous experiments using HTML image maps, defining the tree boxes as clickable areas linked to Individual pages. However they had their drawbacks (e.g. tendency towards lower image quality and onerous to create), ...

Hi Mike Further to your help in response to my post on 23 Oct, I have been working on a text scheme template containing a hyperlink, but am having difficulty in specifying the target path for the link appropriate for my particular case. I’ll set out more clearly what I am trying to do. 1. I have bee...

Thanks Mike!

That's got me back on track - I think I should be able to progress from here. Will get back to you if any further guidance needed.

Hello I use FH.V7 and am developing a family history website. I would like to include family trees, the boxes of which link to Individual pages on the site, and have been using the KnowledgeBase page Family Tree Tips ~ Diagram Hyperlinks PDF as a guide. However, I have a very basic problem in produc...

That's perfect - it's solved my problem! Many thanks Mike!

Hi Mike I love Map Life-Facts, but I’m having problems finding the 'Reverse Display Order' setting for the Location pop-up. I am using FH:V7 under Windows 10 and Map Life-Facts V4.8, but cannot find the setting either under the 'Set Preference Options' tab or the 'Geocode Location Plots' tab. When I...