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It seems the problems you are experiencing are not uncommon. Mainly this is because FTM does not export genuine GEDCOM. If you use the FHUG Search box to the left and enter from FTM and click Search button, you will get a list of other threads, many of which give some guidance on how your type of pr...

OK. Family Historian cannot do what you ask automatically, but you can add a Relationship marker to members of your direct lineage, so that in future you can walk down the generations to yourself. Open the Focus Window and select either the Spouses & Children tab or the Parents & Siblings tab. Right...

I think I know the problem Madeline is having. When using Diagrams & Charts with the Box & Bar movement controls, there are usually three movement point markers on each branch line. However, they sometimes sit on top of each other and coincide. So the trick is to move whichever one is on top up, and...

Can you please clarify in which windows you wish this effect to occur.
Do you mean in Diagrams and Charts, or in Property Box details, or in Reports, or somewhere else?

May I suggest you look at Ancestral Sources for entering Census records. It automates much of the process of creating Facts for each Individual named in the Census and linking them to the Source record for the household. It allows a Template to be defined for the Source record Title that will do exa...

You can send an Ancestral Sources Donation to Nick Walker by running AS and using Help > Make a Donation....

I can only concur with PeterR that Ancestral Sources is the best way to capture your Census finds, and record them in Family Historian with cross-references to the copies downloaded from Ancestry . Ancestral Sources V1.1 can be downloaded from the FHUG Home page using the links top right. Once you h...

There are several useful missing Census Queries in the Knowledge Base: http://www.fhug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=fhugdownloads:censusrecords In particular: http://www.fhug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=fhugdownloads:contents:census-the_missing_years-1911 and http://www.fhug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=fhugdownl...

Further recent work has yielded the following extra details. It appears that the URL Splits Across End of Line problem is caused by an 80 character limitation. If the Hyperlink exceeds 80 characters, then a new-line is inserted every 80[sup]th[/sup] character. This can even occur in the middle of a ...

Postscript If you choose to create your own Custom Marriage Fact then there is some benefit in creating an Attribute rather than an Event . This adds a {value} field that can be used in a similar way and in addition to the {note} field in the Sentence Template . However, the Custom Marriage Attribut...

On the same theme here are some other thoughts. In your original posting you talked about your custom Witness and Priest Events appearing in Reports in less than desirable order. If the Marriage Event Sentence now says everything you need, you may wish to exclude theser custom Events from Reports . ...

Is the file you are saving a *.zip Compressed (zipped) Folder with an icon that is a tabbed yellow folder with a zipper, or is it a *.ged Gedcom File with an icon that has three green boxes in a family tree? If the former, then within FH use File > Backup/Restore > Restore and Open the Zipped File (...

I tend to agree with the points that Adrian Bruce has made. The Date on the Residence and Occupation facts is not so important, because these Individual Facts will always precede the Family Facts such as Marriage that have the same Date . However, this does not resolve your problem with the order of...

Archierex, I am not sure I understand the question. Is 'the photographic information based on  Google mapping' a set of photo images in JPEG, GIF, or similar image format? Are they already stored on your PC in a folder somewhere? Are they already linked to FH Multimedia records? Do these records hav...

Do you mean a Forum thread?
If so it may be this one on Linking unrelated individuals:-
http://www.fhug.org.uk/cgi-bin/index.cg ... y&num=4940

I sympathise with your frustration. The first thing to realise is that their are three types of Fact shown under the Property Box Facts tab . 1) Individual Facts - these have a blue bullet on their left. 2) Family Facts    -    these have a red bullet on their left. 3) Child Facts     -     these ha...

Steve Bye,
I believe that what you suggest will Delete the Box Condition not the Flag, although this may be a necessary prerequisite before the Flag will automatically disappear..

This is what the Condensed Siblings Text Scheme looks like in a Left to Right diagram style. Matthew Pattison TATE and Ellen PARKES both have Flags ' Marriage 1 ' and ' Marriage 2 ' set, to swap the list to the father, because he was married twice. Otherwise, Ellen PARKES would only list her own chi...

There is now a Forum wish list request Diagram - condense list of siblings on this topic. See http://www.fhug.org.uk/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=forum&board=WishList&op=display&num=5063 I have just created a Download for a Text Scheme called Condensed Siblings List that offers a possible solution. See ...

There is a Forum thread How to display multiple children neatly that offers solutions to this request. See 9415|How to display multiple children neatly I have just created a Download for a Text Scheme called Condensed Siblings List that offers a possible solution. See fhugdownloads:contents:condense...

Postscript The files you mention in the C:Program Files (x86)Family HistorianProgram folder should be as shown below. The important file is the Fh file with the fh logo and Type = Application . http://www.fhug.rjt.org.uk/images/uploads/FH-WindowsExplorer.png When using the Open with window Browse b...

If the following conditions are true, then there is an easy solution. 1) You are running FH V4.1.3 . 2) All your photo & media files are linked to Multimedia Records . 3) All these files are on mounted disk drives. Conditions 2) & 3) can be checked using FH Tools > Work with External File Links and ...

If the path C:Program Files (x86)Family HistorianProgram does not exist, then it would seem FH is not installed correctly.

Can you run FH from Start > All Programs > Family Historian > Family Historian ?

RE: 'I wish I had a dual-monitor setup. It's much easier to compare two entries when you can look at both at once.' You can open two copies of your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc.) and resize them to fill half the screen. Windows 7 allows two windows to be easily resized to fill the left-h...

I suspect you mean the mutimediafilelinks.ods file for OpenOffice?

I further suspect you have not Extracted the files from the mutimediafilelinks.zip download.

You will need to right-click on this Zip file and use Extract All or use a utility such as WinZip or 7-Zip.